Another of 2017's festival mainstays has many strengths but it is a fairly unadventurous coming-of-age movie. Writer/director Eliza Hittman scores well in both departments, with some strong use of framing to create relationships and deliberate male objectification giving a grounded, credible feel to the movie as a whole. Brit Harris Dickinson provides an intelligent performance as the conflicted and aimless teen at the heart of the movie, and Madeline Weinstein works well on screen as his budding girlfriend. The central metaphor used to represent the passion and beautiful rage of teenhood leads to a bleakly blunt but affecting ending, and even if the movie hardly covers original territory, this one of the more considered and thoughtful indie efforts in this sub-genre.
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