Netflix's 'The Half of It' turns a closeted student into a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac—it's a delight, says Peter Travers. Our review
Still, this marginalized bandgeek brings in a few extra bucks by ghost-writing term papers for school dummies. Her English teacher is onto the scam, but too entertained by Ellie’s essays to make a fuss. When football jock Paul Munsky asks her to bring a touch of the poet to the mash note he’s scribbled out for their beautiful fellow student Aster Flores , Ellie is frankly disgusted. But she decides to help him out.
Just when you think you know where this is going, Wu makes sure you don’t. Despite its fluid sexuality,turns out to be less of a love story than a funny, touching and vital look into the nature of friendship. It’s Ellie and Paul who manage to forge a connection, and the actors perform with disarming humor and subtlety. Lewis turns her would-be matchmaker into a riot of conflicting emotions.
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