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• Jane Schoenbrun’s film is indeed the richest of them in terms of the multiple dimensions of cinematic experience that it dramatizes, critiques, and illuminates.
• The story is simple: Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder) has been tapped by a studio to reboot a slasher franchise that was launched in the nineteen-eighties.
• “Teenage Sex and Death” is likewise a tale of media consumption—it revolves around a horror-movie franchise—but, in examining the fan experience, it also considers what goes into creating objects of fandom.