A new film baby has been born! Congrats to Heathers (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), Jawbreaker (1999) (and lowkey Mean Girls) for their love child Do Revenge! We’re grateful for this Netflix gem from writer Celeste Ballard (Space Jam: A New Legacy) and co-writer and director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Someone Great, Thor: Love and Thunder), that is full of style, humor, and twists. It’s hard to capture the (potentially problematic) magic of those movies, especially when you’re infusing a movie with a lot of ’90s flavor. And the film is packed with nods to the era, via the soundtrack and references.

Do Revenge is about well, revenge. Two girls, Drea (Camila Mendes) and Eleanor (Maya Hawke), at a prestige private school come together to take down shitty people in each other’s lives. It sounds so simple, but it’s absolutely not simple. There’s much more than what the trailer and synopsis might suggest. The connection between Drea and Eleanor is actually the most important part of the film. Of course, there’s side romance plots (let’s face it, we all wished the duo would get together). But as a viewer it’s obvious to see that what happens between them is what we’re meant to care about.