Katrina is a Resource Writer for Collider. Her encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture extends across film, TV shows, literature and even video games. After the life-changing viewing of Inception, ...

This movie had me empathizing hard for a middle school boy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As someone with my own immigrant ...

The first film I watched through my fingers this year was not Longlegs or The Watchers—or anything close to a horror movie. It was Dìdi (弟弟), a coming-of-age indie I caught in January at the Sundance ...

Sometimes I think the best “coming of age” stories are the ones that open old wounds. The older we get, the harder it is to remember exactly what it was like to be young and inexperienced, stepping ...

Writer-director Sean Wang’s honest, often brutal ode to adolescence has an unlikable protagonist and great performances by Izaac Wang and Joan Chen. “Dìdi” is advertised as a movie “for anyone who’s ...

Coming of age films are nothing new. We've seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three ...

There has long been a truism in Hollywood that movies released in August are second-tier, that anything coming at the tail end of the summer season is being expelled rather than released. It sometimes ...

All unhappy teenage coming-of-age movies are unhappy in the same way — Tolstoy didn’t say that, I did — meaning that hormonal confusion, social insecurity, failed stabs at hipness and mortification on ...

‘Dìdi” feels like a coming-of-age film, along the lines of “Eighth Grade” or “Mid90s.” But director and writer Sean Wang, a Fremont native, said he believes that‘s not quite the case, since the ...

From festival grants to a job at Google to his own grandma, the Fremont native’s personal journey contributed to his semiautobiographical coming-of-age movie, which is the opening night feature at ...

The trailblazing Chinese actress, who is in the running for a best supporting actress Oscar nomination (which would mark the first Oscar nom of her career), reflects on her rollercoaster life and ...