Selah and the Spades

[Streaming on April 17 on Amazon Prime Video.] An unrealistic, disappointing, coming-of-age, 97-minute, 2019 film about high school cliques, such as the Spades, the Bobbys, the Skins, and the Prefects, at a posh boarding school in Pennsylvania run by a headmaster (Jesse Williams) in which a spoiled, charismatic, callous, perfectionistic, manipulative, 17-year-old senior (Lovie Simone), who has a controlling mother (Gina Torres), leads one of the powerful, drug-dealing factions and begins grooming a talented transfer student (Celeste O'Connor) to be her successor after she graduates to the ire of her classmates (Jharrel Jerome, Evan Roe, Ana Mulvoy-Ten, Benjamin Breault, Cody Sloan, Rae Bell, et al.).
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