Polite Society takes a simple plot of a younger sister not wanting to lose her older sister to a marriage but blends it with Everything Everywhere All At Once, Scott Pilgrim, and Get Out to make this stylistic ooze-fest of a 100 minutes.

After taking a little bit to find it’s footing, Polite Society provides a unique analysis on the culture of arranged marriages. The sister of the arranged bride feeling as though her sister is being poached away from her and the parents of the bride feeling honored their daughter is marrying into a successful family. Then for the grooms side of arranged marriages, the mother thinking no woman is good enough until she can see herself in the suitor, the son getting little to no say, and the culture as a whole pressuring people to get married as fast as possible.

Polite Society is funny, although if you weren’t a fan of the EEAAO humor then you’ll are this. This movie has some decent choreography and solid performances all around. Nimra Buchra plays a phenomenal villain and easily my favorite part is the score.

The story is quite formulaic in structure and falls into common tropes, but the dystopian style-bending nature of it elevates it to be one of the best so far of the year. 

2023 Ranked