Julie Keeps Quiet
By Kristin Ciliberto March 27, 2025

A sensitive psychological drama about a rising tennis star facing her demons, namely her suspended coach.
A sensitive psychological drama about a rising tennis star facing her demons, namely her suspended coach.
This naturalistic coming-of-age movie moves with the urgency of someone forced to grow up fast.
A 14-year-old boy’s journey of discovering love and grappling with self-acceptance.
The festival takes viewers to glitzy, gaudy Monaco; the former Yugoslavia; and a rapidly changing Bulgarian village.
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).