★ 10 / 10
This was a really great movie! I felt
JD L
This was a really great movie! I felt like I’ve watched everything popular so I decided to try watching lesser known movies and wow, I was very pleasantly…
This was a really great movie! I felt like I’ve watched everything popular so I decided to try watching lesser known movies and wow, I was very pleasantly surprised. The cast does a really good job even for being so young at the time. Tye Sheridan and Kaitlyn Dever play their respective parts incredibly. The Score is super emotional and nostalgic. A bunch of artistic choices were chosen that make this movie great. Definitely want to rewatch this again.
★ 8 / 10
Spoilers: Kaitlyn and Tye are wonderful young actors
John O
Spoilers: Kaitlyn and Tye are wonderful young actors. So I had to see this despite a sour grapes rating. Bonuses were Paula, Pablo and Annabeth. Good dialogue…
Spoilers: Kaitlyn and Tye are wonderful young actors. So I had to see this despite a sour grapes rating. Bonuses were Paula, Pablo and Annabeth. Good dialogue, writing. Among the coming of age films, this one stands out with a huge twist. The confusion over and attraction to sex, the outgoing personalities and the more shy, is pretty standard fare. The buddies and bikes, the iconoclastic pranks. But this turns early, when these three knucklehead teens decided to steal one's grandfather's truck to steal yard ornaments from neighbors' yards. Tye and Kaitlyn have a thing by then, and when the kids steal a plant from her family's porch, her dumbass older brother chases them in his car, hits a deer and crashes his car. The whole piece now turns on what the boys did next. They knew the guy had been knocked out but not if he were dead. But they left the scene, and he was found dead. Blame for his death followed Tye the rest of the piece, though the brother was probably too stupid to live long anyway. So the final blow was after Kaitlyn's parents found that she and Tye had been engaging in hanky panky. Tye decided it was time to tell Kaitlyn he was at the wreck scene but didn't help the brother, to exorcise that demon from himself. I suppose he didn't think how much it might hurt Kaitlyn and end the relationship, which is what happened. He put his agenda first, easing his conscience, not protecting her. Maybe he also thought he better tell, so the truth didn't come out later some other way. But they let the philosophizing to his older self, Pablo, viewing all this in retrospect. One thing can happen and it changes everything, and it can be for the worse, and you can never get back to where you were before. He still had a torch for her and wished her well, despite being married with a son named after her dead brother. Well done, way better than the critics allowed.
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Kaitlyn Dever is a criminally underrated actor. She's sensational in everything.