coming-of-age
Boyhood is an impactful film, teaching us the strong life lesson of the importance of living in the moment.
Though plot-wise Atypical is somewhat formulaic and uses many tropes from the drama/comedy genre, its utilization and handling of these make it a step up from many shows of the same variety.
Better Days is a mostly earnest drama that plods through bullying, academic stress, murder and tragedy, retaining a fittingly bleak and dolorous tone.
Boys takes a well-worn story of self-acceptance and turns it into a beautiful piece of internal struggle.
Philophobia is a film where words are meant to have stories unto their own with connotations and nuggets of meaning buried within.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha perfectly represents the complexities of your 20s. Read why the film is such an accurate portrait.
We spoke with director Kevin McMullin, whose film Low Tide hit theaters last Friday to inject the fall frenzy with a reminder of summers by the beach.
Prarthana Mohan’s coming-of-age dramedy The MisEducation of Bindu arranges Grade-A talent, on-screen and behind-the-screen.
In this week’s Queerly Ever After, Amanda Jane Stern considers the 1997 film All Over Me, a coming-of-age story about the relationship between two girls.
Low Tide is a tactile, explosive study of masculinity, an exploration of what boys do, what makes them do it, and how they need to learn to stick up to each other.
The Last Tree isn’t perfect, but it’s an honest and insightful coming of age story that deserves to find an audience.
In this TIFF 2019 report, David Fontana reviews four foreign films: Ordinary Love, Easy Land, August, and Dirt Music.
Unfortunately, Tall Girl takes the typical high school movie beats and fails to do much with them.
It’s absurd and outrageous, and although sometimes that doesn’t work in favor of the jokes, Good Boys triumphs as a sweet coming-of-age story.
Ambitious in scope and scale, all while taking the time to flesh out all of its characters and immerse the viewer in moments of striking intimacy, Euphoria leaves no stone unturned.