• Another film to embrace the square 1.33 : 1  frame- First Reformed, Cold War, A Ghost Story, sections of Grand Budapest
  • 90’s nostalgia and some coming of age clichés- it’s a borderline recommend- but there’s enough here- I can see the influence of Kids and Scorsese
  • Ninja Turtles, Super Nintendo—countless more
  • Trent Reznor does the score- quite a coup- there’s not much in it but it’s very good
  • Goodfellas on tv
  • There’s a nice long take set shot of them skating at the camera in traffic- it comes again later to the Morrissey song
  • I hate to pick on him but I had a problem with Sunny Suljic’s lead performance- I felt like he kept smirking the entire time like Jimmy Fallon during an SNL skit
  • Very solid Scorsese-esque tracking shot following the Olan Prenatt actor with blonde hair around the party and throwing 40’s—later in that party scene Hill edits it to the beat of the song- nice touch
  • Na-kel Smith and Suljic have a nice scene together that reminded me of the final Ice Cube scene with Cuba Gooding at the end of Boyz in the Hood

Na-kel Smith and Suljic have a nice scene together that reminded me of the final Ice Cube scene with Cuba Gooding at the end of Boyz in the Hood
  • With the short running time (85 mins) and Hill’s comedic talents as a writer this atmospheric film is never a bad hang-
  • Recommend- fringe- not near the top 10 of 2018