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Departing Seniors

Summary Mexican-American and queer, high school student Javier doesn’t exactly fit in with the popular kids. But he might be the only one who can save them. After an act of bullying sends Javier to the hospital, he begins experiencing visions that foresee glimpses of shocking murders at his school right before they happen. Now, in between naviga...

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Dark Sky Films
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2024
  • Dark Sky Films
  • 1 h 25 m

Departing Seniors

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Summary Mexican-American and queer, high school student Javier doesn’t exactly fit in with the popular kids. But he might be the only one who can save them. After an act of bullying sends Javier to the hospital, he begins experiencing visions that foresee glimpses of shocking murders at his school right before they happen. Now, in between naviga...

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50
Feb 5, 2024
It’s everything a teen horror movie should be—messy, bloody and even steamy at times—but doesn’t add much to the slasher clichés we’ve seen before.
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38
Feb 7, 2024
Departing Seniors has some decent suspense, a surprise or two, and a few things to say about bullying, if not about “outing” a still-working-it-out classmate in an only-in-the-movies high school that tolerates vaping. But what we’re seeing never escapes that “cut and paste” feeling.
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Feb 2, 2024
There’s no real tension in this murder mystery (or much mystery, for that matter), the kills aren’t clever, and eventually this part of the story ends up feeling entirely unnecessary.
By Christy Lemire FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Choppe Productions, Mary Ellen Moffat, Divisionist Films, Queensbury Pictures
Release Date Feb 2, 2024
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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