Movies like Bottoms

“Bottoms (2023) is a United States 2020s coming-of-age dark-comedy that reframes adolescent pursuit of intimacy as a social performance. It positions two awkward protagonists who form a self-defense club into a spectacle of status, filmed with handheld kinetics, practical lighting, and high-contrast chiaroscuro to emphasize bodily display and social escalation. Bottoms argues that commodified intimacy and performative popularity generate moral unease within contemporary high-school cultures.”