High-school movies usually have as much to do with high school as “Godzilla” does with Tokyo. “The DUFF” is slightly radical in portraying high schoolers as human beings of normal niceness ...

In the era of Mo’ne Davis and the groundbreaking “Like a Girl” campaign, “The DUFF” feels like crumbs from a dated, hopelessly retrograde table. Based on Kody Keplinger’s young adult ...