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'Mile End Kicks' Review: Barbie Ferreira Is a Young Music Critic in an Indie-Rock Comedy Where Reality Bites

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entertainmentApril 13, 2026

Apr 12, 2026 4:16pm PT

‘Mile End Kicks’ Review: Barbie Ferreira Is a Young Music Critic in an Indie-Rock Comedy Where Reality Bites

Chandler Levack's film knowingly mirrors the where-am-I-going rhythms of its 22-year-old heroine.

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Grace (Barbie Ferreira), the heroine of “Mile End Kicks,” is a 22-year-old music critic in Toronto who writes for an indie rock magazine called Merge Weekly, where the staff members are bro dweebs who stand around their cubicles engaging in fiery debates about whether Hüsker Dü’s masterpiece is “Zen Arcade” or “Flip Your Wig.” The year is 2011, and Grace has posted 400 articles for Merge in the last year. As working gigs for 22-year-old music critics go, that isn’t bad.

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