A likable debut from Toby MacDonald, *Old Boys* adds a new lick to old tropes and delivers a mostly quirky appealing take on young love and the need to speak in your own voice.

An opportunity to say something, anything, about public school life in Britain is gleefully squandered in this overfamiliar join-the-dots drama from the pen of Jack Whitehall's gag writer, Freddy Syborn.

Although Old Boys finds nothing new to say in revamping a classic, it at least swerves the most obvious pitfalls of the genre to deliver a romcom that's both sweet and satisfying.

This heightened world gives the whole movie a bizarre tone that is initially jarring, but ultimately creates much of the film's enjoyable quirk and comedic spark.