Squash

The scouts

A semi-autobiographical cringe comedy about a botched first date sounds like exactly the kind of coming-of-age material everyone's seen, but Radke's willingness to demolish the sexy virginity myth rather than romanticize it is genuinely subversive—the film knows what it's dismantling and doesn't blink.

Radke situates herself within a lineage of intimate comedies that interrogate the gap between expectation and reality, and the formal restraint of a 15-minute runtime forces every comedic and dramatic beat to earn its place with precision.

The choice to play the date itself without sentimentality—letting awkwardness and bodily reality breathe instead of cutting around them—is what transforms a personal anecdote into something that lands, and it's a decision that costs nothing but takes real nerve.