A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to "The Crucible".
This is a dark, sharply crafted and ultimately touching drama on teenage angst, as well as female camaraderie and rivalry, written with the kind of artistic maturity it takes many filmmakers years to acquire and hone.
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Sheila O'Malley
RTRogerEbert.comJan 5, 2018
Blame crackles with fires within fires.
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Owen Gleiberman
RTVarietyJan 5, 2018
Shephard has a lively eye for the neurotic ripples of high-school society, but her most audacious gambit is to dare to place the audience in a grey zone between innocence and judgment ...
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Piers Marchant
RTArkansas Democrat-GazetteAug 21, 2020
he film plays with a lot of high-school film tropes, but is smart enough to subvert them just enough to keep it feeling fresh.