Kicking off with a bang, the film opens with Izaac Wang’s Chris—known to his junior high friends as Wang Wang and to his family as Dìdi (Mandarin for “younger brother”)—fleeing with ferocious glee ...

All unhappy teenage coming-of-age movies are unhappy in the same way — Tolstoy didn’t say that, I did — meaning that hormonal confusion, social insecurity, failed stabs at hipness and mortification on ...

Coming-of-age stories are a timeless tradition in the film industry. For decades, Hollywood has been flooded with movies that center on the trials of growing up and aim to capture the relatable, ...