Eric
Unbelievably bad. While the acting is consistently good, and the cinematography is also on point, the only part of the writing that works at all is the way the young protagonist is characterized: Unsure, immature, occasionally belligerent, selfish, and far too trusting. The rest is a train wreck. Anyone who has spent any time practicing music performance will likely laugh and then cry at the comically bad way instruction is framed here; anyone with a pulse should really be looking at the way most of the characters act and speak and wondering what sort of 13-year-old, terrified of what high school might be like, somehow had their worst adolescent fears turned into a major production. This is awful, and it's a bit of a tragedy that so much acting talent and production quality were wasted on this insultingly bad script.