The plot rests on the shoulders of Amber (Auliʻi Cravalho), a generous and bright-eyed teen who spends her days working hard and helping others but spends her nights sleeping on a school bus with her alcoholic mother (an on-form Justina Machado). Like his last film, it’s a competently directed attempt to graft serious issues on to an otherwise rather anodyne teen drama and like his last film, it’s also an awkward misfire at best and an uneasy and irresponsible one at worst.
He’s back with alarming speed for another one, this time bringing Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick’s novel Sorta Like a Rockstar to life, renamed as the forgettably bland All Together Now, an early warning sign of what’s to come. And while he brought a more distinctive aesthetic to February’s YA adaptation All the Bright Places than most of the streamer’s teen flick directors tend to, his film was also a maudlin non-starter, unsuccessfully swirling together a drippy romance with an uneasily ticked off list of issues of the week. An initially heartening result of its failure was that Haley headed straight to Netflix where a wider audience was waiting.
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