"Mid90s" truly expresses the skateboarding culture, calling the audience back to the past in a decadent style. Jonah Hill Feldstein handles the experience of adolescence very well, so the occasional mistakes he makes can be abrupt-for example, the clips of his Stevie and friends mocking security guards are too procrastinating, and the effect is just like ordinary Ordinary improvisation. However, in most cases, Jonah Hill Feldstein's film intuition and his eye for detail are very keen. As the first work directed by Jonah Hill Feldstein, the film showed a lot of potential. For movie fans, this is definitely a movie worth watching
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The film resembles the gender-reversal sister version of "Skate Kitchen", especially the sudden sense of belonging and surging danger, but it resembles "Miss Bird" in terms of emotional impact handling, and it feels like listening to the author at the same time In my youth, I was accepting a serious artist to observe and comment from a distance
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If you regard "Miss Bird", "Eighth Grade", and "Mid90s" as the "Youth Trilogy" of A24, then "Mid90s" must be the cooler and more rebellious one. The soundtrack of Trent Rezno and Atticus Ross, combined with the pseudo-DV style of 4:3 format, vividly presents American street culture on the screen, and even makes people think that this is a movie about the 90s of the 20th century. A documentary in Los Angeles. It is a pity that the film does not deeply interpret this key element of skateboarding culture
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