Sharply observed and specific details make this a fun and moving coming-of-age film.

Backspot immersing viewers in rough workouts, reveling in the punishment today’s high school cheerleaders take.

A group of recent high school grads are determined to have one last hurrah, so they pack themselves into a battered van and head for the Pacific Coast.

At first, the film conjures Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers as it revels in the shallow inanity of carousing drunk teens. But wait for its second half.

A mentorship-based coming-of-age film with a well-known ancestry (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, Stand and Deliver).

A softhearted yet somewhat stringent and bitter coming-of-age tale.

Brought up in a God-centered Kentucky fundamentalist community, 17-year-old Jem’s life path is laid out for her—until she meets a restless youth pastor.

A gentle, knowing portrait of an 11-year-old girl undergoing puberty and a religious identity crisis.

You rarely see such committed, honest performances in actors this young as in this French film. They are absolute naturals.