
The DUFF
Ari Sandel directs this surprisingly perceptive teen comedy with energetic rhythm, anchored by Mae Whitman’s sharp, self-deprecating performance as Bianca. Blindsided by the realization that her high school peers classify her as an approachable buffer to her prettier best friends, Bianca recruits her charming, athletic neighbor (Robbie Amell) for an unvarnished social overhaul. Whitman and Amell share electric comedic timing, trading caustic insults that gradually betray an easy, undeniable warmth. For viewers seeking movies like What's Your Number?, this offers an identical narrative skeleton: a humiliated heroine partnering with an attractive rogue on a pragmatic self-improvement quest, only to discover their transactional banter masks genuine affection.






