Roommates

Shy freshman Devon asks the effortlessly cool Celeste to room with her, and the friendship that blooms out of it sours with impressive speed. One dorm, zero boundaries, promises the tagline, and the film mines that airless proximity for a slow-building war of passive aggression: the sighs, the borrowed sweater, the note left where it cannot be missed. It is a campus story that understands how much damage can be done without anyone ever raising their voice.

Ideal for viewers who enjoy sharply observed social discomfort and the particular cruelty of young women discovering where their power is. The pacing tightens as the escalation does, and by the back half the humour and the menace are hard to separate. Anyone who likes character-driven stories about friendship as a status contest will recognise a lot here, uncomfortably so. A good pick when you want something wickedly petty, immediate and a little too close to real.