The Prank feels of a different generation—one where movies like The Faculty and Teaching Mrs. Tingle made the cineplexes in a late 1990s era. It mirrors old-school high school flicks that made us ask ...

The Prank follows high-schooler Ben (Connor Kalopsis) and his best friend, Tanner (Ramona Young). They couldn’t be more different from one another, as they have their priorities entirely different.

The prank show feels more like ‘Stranger Things’ marketing. Audra Schroeder was a senior entertainment writer at the Daily Dot, focusing on streaming, comedy, and music. Her work has previously ...

Maybe that’s too esoteric of a comparison but I think Maureen Bharoocha might sympathize with it, as her film The Prank feels very much inspired by that silly childish blend of offbeat horror-comedy ...

SXSW: The "West Side Story" star is delightful as a severe schoolmarm who looks more like a Bond villain than a physics teacher. Despite releasing a retrospective documentary about her astounding ...

“The Prank” is no big whoop, but for a good stretch it’s a tartly written, engagingly nasty little comedy of high-school vengeance. It’s set during the senior year of Ben (Connor Kalopsis), the kind ...

The overplayed coming-of-age genre gets an undercooked workout in a well-shot but hesitant debut that leaves its most promising ideas unexplored. It’s a shame that so many neophyte directors choose ...