Coming of Age

Carlos Through the Tall Grass

By Ali Arkani | June 2022

DANCES WITH FILMS 2022 REVIEW! There are plenty of coming-of-age dramas focused on empowering teenagers, telling them how to overcome all the…

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DANCES WITH FILMS 2022 REVIEW! There are plenty of coming-of-age dramas focused on empowering teenagers, telling them how to overcome all the problems and...

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Undergrads, directed by Andrew Zuckerman, is an introspective slice-of-life film focused on a group of friends approaching the end of their college days....

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Before any of us can spread our wings as functioning adults, we must go through the egg, caterpillar, and pupa stages. As kids, we yearn to grow up and...

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Striding Into The Wind is a fictional revisit into the life of Shujun Wei. Making his feature debut, the co-writer/director goes back to his student days...

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City is director Kenneth Lott's feature film debut. Terrence Cooper wrote the coming-of-age crime drama, and interestingly, for both good and bad, it feels...

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The opening scene of Nick Richey's 1-800-Hot-Nite sees the three leads calling the titular 800 number with a stolen credit card. The teenage boys are so...

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If you've ever watched a Lifetime movie and thought, "I wish all of this drama and craziness were centered on a man, instead of a woman," then...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Dawid Nickel's Love Tasting is set in a small Polish town and follows four teenagers dealing with the excitement and...

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It's been a while since the angst and effervescence of youth have been as realistically depicted as they are in Ukrainian writer-director Kateryna...

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Written and directed by Philipp Yuryev, The Whaler Boy follows teenager Leshka (Vladimir Onokhov), who lives in a small whaling community nestled along the...

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