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The 2022 Tribeca Festival presented awards in its competition categories on Thursday, with Good Girl Jane and The Cave of Adullam among this year’s top winners.
Good Girl Jane won the Founders’ Award for best U.S. narrative feature, with a 20,000 prize, with star Rain Spencer winning best performance in the U.S. narrative competition. The film, written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, also stars Andie MacDowell, Patrick Gibson, Odessa A’Zion, Olan Prenatt and Eloisa Huggins.
The movie follows Spencer’s lonely high schooler Jane, bullied out of private school and at odds with her divorced parents, as she spirals out of control after falling for a charismatic drug dealer. Other awards in the U.S. Narrative Competition went to Allswell (best screenplay) and Next Exit (best cinematography), with the screenplay winner receiving 2,500. The U.S. narrative jury also gave a special...
The 2022 Tribeca Festival presented awards in its competition categories on Thursday, with Good Girl Jane and The Cave of Adullam among this year’s top winners.
Good Girl Jane won the Founders’ Award for best U.S. narrative feature, with a 20,000 prize, with star Rain Spencer winning best performance in the U.S. narrative competition. The film, written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, also stars Andie MacDowell, Patrick Gibson, Odessa A’Zion, Olan Prenatt and Eloisa Huggins.
The movie follows Spencer’s lonely high schooler Jane, bullied out of private school and at odds with her divorced parents, as she spirals out of control after falling for a charismatic drug dealer. Other awards in the U.S. Narrative Competition went to Allswell (best screenplay) and Next Exit (best cinematography), with the screenplay winner receiving 2,500. The U.S. narrative jury also gave a special...
- 6/16/2022
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2022 Tribeca Festival has officially announced the slate of award-winning films, marking the end of the 21st annual event.
Presented by Okx, the Tribeca Festival unveiled the winning storytellers in its competition categories on June 16 at the awards ceremony at New York City restaurant Thalassa. Awards were given in the following competition categories: Feature Film, Short Film, Audio Storytelling, Immersive, Games, Human/Nature, and Tribeca X.
“Good Girl Jane” took home the top prize, the Founders’ Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature. Written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, the film marked its World Premiere at the festival. “Good Girl Jane” follows a private school dropout teen who falls in love with a charismatic drug dealer. Lead star Rain Spencer also won Best Performance for her turn as Jane.
Latvian drama “January (Janvaris)” won Best International Narrative Feature. Written and directed by Viesturs Kairiss it’s about an aspiring...
Presented by Okx, the Tribeca Festival unveiled the winning storytellers in its competition categories on June 16 at the awards ceremony at New York City restaurant Thalassa. Awards were given in the following competition categories: Feature Film, Short Film, Audio Storytelling, Immersive, Games, Human/Nature, and Tribeca X.
“Good Girl Jane” took home the top prize, the Founders’ Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature. Written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, the film marked its World Premiere at the festival. “Good Girl Jane” follows a private school dropout teen who falls in love with a charismatic drug dealer. Lead star Rain Spencer also won Best Performance for her turn as Jane.
Latvian drama “January (Janvaris)” won Best International Narrative Feature. Written and directed by Viesturs Kairiss it’s about an aspiring...
- 6/16/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Mikey Alfred is no stranger to rejection.
When pitching the script for his feature directorial debut, “North Hollywood,” to distributors, the 26-year-old L.A. native was met with the same response from all of them: “No.”
“I didn’t even get like, ‘Yeah, we’ll hit you back,'” Alfred tells Variety. “It was just like, ‘no,’ everywhere.”
It’s not like Alfred is a complete outsider to Hollywood — he was a producer on Jonah Hill’s critically-acclaimed film “Mid90s,” appeared as himself in the HBO series “Ballers” and directed a documentary short about rapper Tyler, the Creator. But Alfred was told that the semi-autobiographical “North Hollywood” — about a teenage boy’s choice between following his dream of becoming a pro skater or going to college — wouldn’t relate to a wide enough audience.
“I categorically disagree with that,” Alfred says. “I feel that it caters to a really niche...
When pitching the script for his feature directorial debut, “North Hollywood,” to distributors, the 26-year-old L.A. native was met with the same response from all of them: “No.”
“I didn’t even get like, ‘Yeah, we’ll hit you back,'” Alfred tells Variety. “It was just like, ‘no,’ everywhere.”
It’s not like Alfred is a complete outsider to Hollywood — he was a producer on Jonah Hill’s critically-acclaimed film “Mid90s,” appeared as himself in the HBO series “Ballers” and directed a documentary short about rapper Tyler, the Creator. But Alfred was told that the semi-autobiographical “North Hollywood” — about a teenage boy’s choice between following his dream of becoming a pro skater or going to college — wouldn’t relate to a wide enough audience.
“I categorically disagree with that,” Alfred says. “I feel that it caters to a really niche...
- 5/14/2021
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
It’s been quite a week for Nineties nostalgia. Following Beabadoobee’s throwback video for “Last Day on Earth,” Princess Nokia pays homage to Jennifer Lopez in “It’s Not My Fault.”
The video is a direct nod to Lopez’s 1999 video for “If You Had My Love,” where Mid90s actor Olan Prenatt watches the rapper on surveillance. The new track is an ode to OnlyFans, a subscription platform used by sex workers.
“My video symbolizes my mainstream coming of age, just as it did Jennifer’s,” Nokia said in a statement.
The video is a direct nod to Lopez’s 1999 video for “If You Had My Love,” where Mid90s actor Olan Prenatt watches the rapper on surveillance. The new track is an ode to OnlyFans, a subscription platform used by sex workers.
“My video symbolizes my mainstream coming of age, just as it did Jennifer’s,” Nokia said in a statement.
- 3/26/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Andie MacDowell and The Oa star Patrick Gibson are set to star in Good Girl Jane, which wrapped filming in Los Angeles this week following a 2020 production shutdown due to the pandemic.
Newcomer Rain Spencer leads the cast as a lonely young girl that falls hard for a charming drug dealer and becomes entangled in his meth ring run by Los Angeles teens.
Sarah Elizabeth Mintz makes her feature debut on the Astute Films project. Odessa A’Zion (Grand Army), Jules Lorenzo (Betty), Olan Prenatt (Mid90s), Diego Chiat, Eloisa Huggins and Gale Harold round out the cast with musical artists Yeek and Shakewell.
Astute Films’ Dominique ...
Newcomer Rain Spencer leads the cast as a lonely young girl that falls hard for a charming drug dealer and becomes entangled in his meth ring run by Los Angeles teens.
Sarah Elizabeth Mintz makes her feature debut on the Astute Films project. Odessa A’Zion (Grand Army), Jules Lorenzo (Betty), Olan Prenatt (Mid90s), Diego Chiat, Eloisa Huggins and Gale Harold round out the cast with musical artists Yeek and Shakewell.
Astute Films’ Dominique ...
- 3/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Andie MacDowell and The Oa star Patrick Gibson are set to star in Good Girl Jane, which wrapped filming in Los Angeles this week following a 2020 production shutdown due to the pandemic.
Newcomer Rain Spencer leads the cast as a lonely young girl that falls hard for a charming drug dealer and becomes entangled in his meth ring run by Los Angeles teens.
Sarah Elizabeth Mintz makes her feature debut on the Astute Films project. Odessa A’Zion (Grand Army), Jules Lorenzo (Betty), Olan Prenatt (Mid90s), Diego Chiat, Eloisa Huggins and Gale Harold round out the cast with musical artists Yeek and Shakewell.
Astute Films’ Dominique ...
Newcomer Rain Spencer leads the cast as a lonely young girl that falls hard for a charming drug dealer and becomes entangled in his meth ring run by Los Angeles teens.
Sarah Elizabeth Mintz makes her feature debut on the Astute Films project. Odessa A’Zion (Grand Army), Jules Lorenzo (Betty), Olan Prenatt (Mid90s), Diego Chiat, Eloisa Huggins and Gale Harold round out the cast with musical artists Yeek and Shakewell.
Astute Films’ Dominique ...
- 3/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor Jonah Hill’s feature debut Mid90s is a masterfully executed, tender and beautifully evocative coming-of-age story. Written as well as directed by Hill, the film follows a teenage boy in 1990s-era Los Angeles as he spends his summer forming new and dangerous friendships away from his troubled home life.
13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic) lives in La with his aggressive older brother Ian (Lucas Hedges) and single mother Dabney (Katherine Waterston). In between taking regular beatings from Ian for no apparent reason and playing truant from school, Stevie becomes fascinated by a group of older punk skaters after a chance meeting at the Motor Avenue Sketeshop. Back home, the teenager trades with his brother for an 80s kids skateboard and later brings it to the shop in the hope of fitting in with the others. There, he befriends Ruben who later introduces him to the rest of the group: Ray,...
13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic) lives in La with his aggressive older brother Ian (Lucas Hedges) and single mother Dabney (Katherine Waterston). In between taking regular beatings from Ian for no apparent reason and playing truant from school, Stevie becomes fascinated by a group of older punk skaters after a chance meeting at the Motor Avenue Sketeshop. Back home, the teenager trades with his brother for an 80s kids skateboard and later brings it to the shop in the hope of fitting in with the others. There, he befriends Ruben who later introduces him to the rest of the group: Ray,...
- 2/21/2019
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed a large selection of movies for its Panorama strand. Section head Paz Lázaro and co-curator and programme manager Michael Stütz have revealed 22 titles, 14 of which will be world premieres.
Among highlights are Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s; Jamie Bell starrer Skin, about the USA’s neo-Nazi scene; Tilda Swinton drama The Souvenir; and What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael, about the legendary film critic.
Panorama Films:
37 Seconds – Japan
by Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki)
with Mei Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Makiko Watanabe, Shunsuke Daitō, Yuka Itaya
World premiere – Debut film
Director Hikari, aka Mitsuyo Miyazaki, tells the story of Yuma, a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, Yuma struggles to lead a self-determined life.
Dafne – Italy
by Federico Bondi
with Carolina Raspanti, Antonio Piovanelli,...
Among highlights are Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s; Jamie Bell starrer Skin, about the USA’s neo-Nazi scene; Tilda Swinton drama The Souvenir; and What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael, about the legendary film critic.
Panorama Films:
37 Seconds – Japan
by Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki)
with Mei Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Makiko Watanabe, Shunsuke Daitō, Yuka Itaya
World premiere – Debut film
Director Hikari, aka Mitsuyo Miyazaki, tells the story of Yuma, a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, Yuma struggles to lead a self-determined life.
Dafne – Italy
by Federico Bondi
with Carolina Raspanti, Antonio Piovanelli,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, “mid90s,” about a 13-year-old skateboarder’s coming of age, and a documentary on influential film critic Pauline Kael are among the works that will screen in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
Films starring Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell and titles from countries including Israel, Brazil and Japan were also announced in the first batch of 22 Panorama selections unveiled by the Berlinale on Tuesday. Nine of the films are debut works, and 14 will have their world premiere in the German capital. The section is curated by Paz Lázaro and co-curator and program manager Michael Stütz.
“mid90s” follows teenage Stevie as he joins up with four skateboarding punks who take him under their wing. Variety described Hill’s debut film as “a slice of street life made up of skittery moments that achieve a bone-deep reality. And because you believe what you’re seeing,...
Films starring Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell and titles from countries including Israel, Brazil and Japan were also announced in the first batch of 22 Panorama selections unveiled by the Berlinale on Tuesday. Nine of the films are debut works, and 14 will have their world premiere in the German capital. The section is curated by Paz Lázaro and co-curator and program manager Michael Stütz.
“mid90s” follows teenage Stevie as he joins up with four skateboarding punks who take him under their wing. Variety described Hill’s debut film as “a slice of street life made up of skittery moments that achieve a bone-deep reality. And because you believe what you’re seeing,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, Ryder McLaughlin, Alexa Demie, Fig Camila Abner, Liana Perlich, Ama Elsesser, Judah Estrella Borunda, Mecca Allen | Written and Directed by Jonah Hill
In 1990s Los Angeles, 13-year-old Stevie escapes his turbulent home life by hanging out with a new group of friends he meets at a local skate shop, plunging him into a world of fun, danger and excitement.
Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s is an artistic and entertaining romp. Perfectly stylised and thematically engaging as the personification of the decade in which it is set, with magnetic aptitude. The issues lie within the content provided which is the epitome of shallow and hollow, aside from the energy provided in a majestic score and absurdly beautiful framing in the cinematography from Christopher Blauvelt.
The exploration of teenage rebellion, while not necessarily fresh nor unique, serves...
In 1990s Los Angeles, 13-year-old Stevie escapes his turbulent home life by hanging out with a new group of friends he meets at a local skate shop, plunging him into a world of fun, danger and excitement.
Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s is an artistic and entertaining romp. Perfectly stylised and thematically engaging as the personification of the decade in which it is set, with magnetic aptitude. The issues lie within the content provided which is the epitome of shallow and hollow, aside from the energy provided in a majestic score and absurdly beautiful framing in the cinematography from Christopher Blauvelt.
The exploration of teenage rebellion, while not necessarily fresh nor unique, serves...
- 11/7/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Whether you grew up in the city or the country, you probably hung out with a group of similarly aged kids. You usually played games, explored, and occasionally got into a bit of mischief. The movies exploited that sensing of bonding and belonging nearly a hundred years ago when slapstick king Hal Roach created and produced the long-running series of short comedies called “Our Gang” (when they were sold to TV in the 50’s they were packaged under a new title “The Little Rascals: since teen gangs were the stuff of parental nightmares). In the late 1930’s, the “Dead End Kids were “B” movie staples right into the 50’s when they morphed into “The Bowery Boys”. More recently filmmakers have used the multi-kid format usually in a nostalgic setting. The 50’s were the backdrop for The Lords Of Flatbush and The Wanderers, the next decade had American Graffiti and The Sandlot.
- 10/25/2018
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jonah Hill’s directorial debut is an homage so faithful to its titular era, you’d be hard-pressed to pinpoint the year in which it was actually made. The giveaway, though, is in the intense sense of nostalgia that suffuses every frame of “Mid90s.”
Hill, currently starring in Netflix’s “Maniac,” was 13 in 1996, the same age as his protagonist, Stevie, who’s struggling to make sense of his unhappy life. His older brother, Ian, has a lot of rage issues, most of which he takes out on Stevie in violent fashion. And his young single mom, Dabney, is just trying to hold things together.
Facing down a summer with nothing to do and no one to do it with, Stevie finds a new family among the teens who hang out at a nearby L.A. skate shop. Ray (Na-kel Smith) works there, but he seems to be the only...
Hill, currently starring in Netflix’s “Maniac,” was 13 in 1996, the same age as his protagonist, Stevie, who’s struggling to make sense of his unhappy life. His older brother, Ian, has a lot of rage issues, most of which he takes out on Stevie in violent fashion. And his young single mom, Dabney, is just trying to hold things together.
Facing down a summer with nothing to do and no one to do it with, Stevie finds a new family among the teens who hang out at a nearby L.A. skate shop. Ray (Na-kel Smith) works there, but he seems to be the only...
- 10/18/2018
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Jonah Hill doesn’t appear in a single scene of Mid90s, but you can feel his presence in every scene of this comedy spiked with touching gravity. Making his directing debut with a script he wrote himself, Hill shapes this coming-of-age tale like a European art film (think Francois Truffaut’s 400 Blows), letting atmosphere, character and glimmers of feeling take precedence over narrative thrust. The technique may put off fans expecting a raucous take on Superbad or 21 Jump Street and its sequel, both of which Hill cowrote. But...
- 10/16/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
The cast of Jonah Hill's Mid90s raved about the freshman writer-director at a surprise screening of the film at the New York Film Festival on Sunday night.
The screening was the pic's first following its Sept. 9 premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Mid90s stars Sunny Suljic as Stevie, a shy 13-year-old with an abusive brother (Lucas Hedges) and a loving but oblivious mother (Katherine Waterston). Longing to escape his gloomy home life, Stevie befriends a group of teenaged skateboarders led by aspiring pro Ray (Na-kel Smith) and loudmouth party boy Fuckshit (Olan Prenatt).
According to the cast, the ...
The screening was the pic's first following its Sept. 9 premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Mid90s stars Sunny Suljic as Stevie, a shy 13-year-old with an abusive brother (Lucas Hedges) and a loving but oblivious mother (Katherine Waterston). Longing to escape his gloomy home life, Stevie befriends a group of teenaged skateboarders led by aspiring pro Ray (Na-kel Smith) and loudmouth party boy Fuckshit (Olan Prenatt).
According to the cast, the ...
- 10/9/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The cast of Jonah Hill's Mid90s raved about the freshman writer-director at a surprise screening of the film at the New York Film Festival on Sunday night.
The screening was the pic's first following its Sept. 9 premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Mid90s stars Sunny Suljic as Stevie, a shy 13-year-old with an abusive brother (Lucas Hedges) and a loving but oblivious mother (Katherine Waterston). Longing to escape his gloomy home life, Stevie befriends a group of teenaged skateboarders led by aspiring pro Ray (Na-kel Smith) and loudmouth party boy Fuckshit (Olan Prenatt).
According to the cast, the ...
The screening was the pic's first following its Sept. 9 premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Mid90s stars Sunny Suljic as Stevie, a shy 13-year-old with an abusive brother (Lucas Hedges) and a loving but oblivious mother (Katherine Waterston). Longing to escape his gloomy home life, Stevie befriends a group of teenaged skateboarders led by aspiring pro Ray (Na-kel Smith) and loudmouth party boy Fuckshit (Olan Prenatt).
According to the cast, the ...
- 10/9/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sunny Suljic and Na-kel Smith in Jonah Hill's Mid90s
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has just announced a sneak preview of Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s to be screened at the 56th New York Film Festival. The film stars Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston (Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice) and Lucas Hedges (Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea) with Ryder McLaughlin, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, and Na-kel Smith.
Jonah Hill's Mid90s has a sneak preview at the 56th New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center writes: "Jonah Hill’s directorial début is a frank, intimate, and emotionally layered reflection on an unlikely coming-of-age in the world of Nineties La skate culture. 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic), growing up with a loving but largely absent mother (Katherine Waterston) and a resentful brother (Lucas Hedges), seeks refuge with older kids...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has just announced a sneak preview of Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s to be screened at the 56th New York Film Festival. The film stars Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston (Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice) and Lucas Hedges (Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea) with Ryder McLaughlin, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, and Na-kel Smith.
Jonah Hill's Mid90s has a sneak preview at the 56th New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center writes: "Jonah Hill’s directorial début is a frank, intimate, and emotionally layered reflection on an unlikely coming-of-age in the world of Nineties La skate culture. 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic), growing up with a loving but largely absent mother (Katherine Waterston) and a resentful brother (Lucas Hedges), seeks refuge with older kids...
- 10/1/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Mid90s, Jonah Hill‘s directorial debut, follows 13-year-old Stevie, who befriends a group of skateboarders one summer while navigating a heartbreaking home life in Los Angeles. “A lot of the time we feel like our lives are the worst,” a friend tells Stevie (Sunny Suljic) in the tender new trailer. “I think if you looked into anyone else’s closer, you wouldn’t trade their shit for your shit.”
The new clip reveals more about Stevie’s troubling issues at home. It shows Stevie’s battle wounds, some of...
The new clip reveals more about Stevie’s troubling issues at home. It shows Stevie’s battle wounds, some of...
- 9/25/2018
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Between his starring role in Netflix’s “Maniac” and his feature directorial debut “Mid90s,” Jonah Hill is having a career-changing fall. A24 has premiered the latest official trailer for Hill’s coming-of-age movie following strong reviews from the movie’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month.
“Mid90s” stars relative newcomer Sunny Suljic (“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”) as a thirteen-year-old in 90s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. The supporting cast includes Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith, Katherine Waterston, and Olan Prenatt.
IndieWire’s Eric Kohn reacted strongly to the film’s “sweet burst of nostalgia” in his review out of Tiff. “Equal parts ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ ‘Kids,’ and the adolescent-focused narratives of British director Shane Meadows, Hill cribs from these precedents...
“Mid90s” stars relative newcomer Sunny Suljic (“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”) as a thirteen-year-old in 90s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. The supporting cast includes Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith, Katherine Waterston, and Olan Prenatt.
IndieWire’s Eric Kohn reacted strongly to the film’s “sweet burst of nostalgia” in his review out of Tiff. “Equal parts ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ ‘Kids,’ and the adolescent-focused narratives of British director Shane Meadows, Hill cribs from these precedents...
- 9/25/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The summer between middle school and high school is a formative one for any kid. There’s this sense of moving away from childhood and towards young adulthood — of needing to act older to fit in considering the pecking order has restarted with you down at the bottom. Factor in a sibling who’s already gone through this transition (living to remind you of this fact with his penchant for brutal abuse you’re too naïve to realize is his own insecurity seeking an easy target to work out aggression) and your desire to evolve becomes that much more potent. Now is the time to be cool. Throw away those Tmnt bed sheets and reinvent yourself as a skateboarder despite knowing nothing about how to begin riding. Image proves everything.
This is the point in which first-time feature film director Jonah Hill introduces his thirteen-year-old lead Stevie (Sunny Suljic). Well,...
This is the point in which first-time feature film director Jonah Hill introduces his thirteen-year-old lead Stevie (Sunny Suljic). Well,...
- 9/13/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
“Mid90s” is the kind of movie so familiar it’s practically over before it begins. The affable story of scrawny L.A. 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljit) coming of age in the eponymous era follows all the familiar beats of this well-trod genre. However, the first feature from writer-director Jonah Hill shows some of the best qualities of veteran actors who step behind the camera, with nuanced performances so real the characters practically fall off the screen. Hill’s story suggests equal parts “Freaks and Geeks,” “Kids,” and the adolescent-focused narratives of British director Shane Meadows, but Hill cribs from these precedents with a confidence that injects this lively snapshot of skateboarding reprobates with fresh confidence.
It’s also a gleeful nostalgia trip. With a period-specific soundtrack that ranges from the Pixies to Wu-Tang Clan, “Mid90s” depicts the last decade of the 20th century with a warm hug. It...
It’s also a gleeful nostalgia trip. With a period-specific soundtrack that ranges from the Pixies to Wu-Tang Clan, “Mid90s” depicts the last decade of the 20th century with a warm hug. It...
- 9/10/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
In “mid90s,” Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a 13-year-old Los Angeles kid with hair bigger than his head and a cute shy gaze of sloe-eyed innocence, escapes his bleak abusive home by hooking up with four slovenly, zoned-out skate punks who take him under their tattered wings. If this were a Hollywood movie, or even a certain kind of indie movie (the most typical kind), Stevie, bolstered by his new friends, would learn a lot about how to skate. He would also come of age by undergoing rites of damaged mischief and absorbing a handful of “streetwise” life lessons.
But that’s not the movie that Jonah Hill, the writer and director of “mid90s” (it’s the actor’s first time behind the camera), has made. Stevie needs friends — he needs somebody — badly. The film opens with a head-on shot of his domestic hell: In the dank cramped chartreuse hall of his home,...
But that’s not the movie that Jonah Hill, the writer and director of “mid90s” (it’s the actor’s first time behind the camera), has made. Stevie needs friends — he needs somebody — badly. The film opens with a head-on shot of his domestic hell: In the dank cramped chartreuse hall of his home,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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