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    A great cast and a girl-empowering spin aside, 'Blockers' is a mediocre teen sex comedy

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Apr 06, 2018 4 minutes

    In one of the more amusing scenes in "Blockers," a strained raunchfest about a long, dark prom night of the soul, three middle-age adults get a crash course in advanced text-message symbology.

    They have intercepted a private exchange among their three teenage daughters, who, like most kids of their generation, speak the language of emoji with a fluency that can be hard for their parents to decipher. But in the end, all those engorged eggplants and suggestively positioned fingers can mean only one thing: Their daughters, who have been best friends for years, have formed a pact to lose their virginity on prom night.

    Predictably enough, this development triggers a long, regressive and fitfully funny

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