11 Movie and TV Picks for August5 of 11
We the Animals | In U.S. theaters Friday, Aug. 17
I don't typically rush to catch the latest indie coming-of-age story, but documentary filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar's We the Animals may change that. Based on Justing Torres' 2011 debut novel about a boy and his brothers growing up amid their parents' stormy relationship, the film won this year's NEXT Innovator prize at Sundance. But it was the dreamy and sensual trailer that sold it for me, which works on its own as a lovely visual poem, calling to mind last year's Moonlight and the films of Terrence Malick. — James
I don't typically rush to catch the latest indie coming-of-age story, but documentary filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar's We the Animals may change that. Based on Justing Torres' 2011 debut novel about a boy and his brothers growing up amid their parents' stormy relationship, the film won this year's NEXT Innovator prize at Sundance. But it was the dreamy and sensual trailer that sold it for me, which works on its own as a lovely visual poem, calling to mind last year's Moonlight and the films of Terrence Malick. — James
PeopleRaúl Castillo, Evan Rosado
TitlesWe the Animals
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