I'm a sucker for these coming of age, surviving the horrors of high school-type films. I don't know if it's because I sort through my semi-unresolved traumatic growing up years as I watch the protagonists survive teenage hood. But I do think the plots seem formulaic and cliched in the most correct of ways.
Snack Shack is solidly acted, and like the director's previous film, Dinner in America, the characters are relatable and you feel invested in their journeys particularly…