Review of Honor Society: a hilarious, unexpectedly dark high school comedy

Beyoncé and Billie Eilish are the opening pop feminism icons in Honor Society, a dark comedy about high school kids who are preoccupied with prestige.

This surprisingly cutting, harsher than you'd anticipate movie about the prestige-obsessed, directed by Oran Zegman, has a shocking, gloriously delusional opening.

As Honor's every action, like Carey Mulligan's Cassie, is motivated by a maddening, solitary passion, there are echoes of Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman here.

Honor Society struggles to stick the landing and thread the needle between sour and sweet, campy and earnest, due to a dark twist in the last act that, while unexpected, rocks the boat.

Honor Society is available on Paramount Plus in the UK and US