The summer everything changed.
the French New Wave's opening statement, and that final freeze
a boy and a kestrel; British cinema's most quietly brutal film
a flop mocked on release, adored ever since
a kids' adventure with real stakes
the definitive childhood-friendship film
Williams, and the desks
Singleton, 23 years old, Oscar-nominated
Van Sant and Phoenix
Jackson before the trilogy, Winslet's debut
a flop that became a generational touchstone
the bench scene
Anderson's voice fully formed
Swank, and a film that mattered
a crowd-pleaser built on the miners' strike
the sports-and-integration film done with real craft
the definitive alienated-teen film
road movie with a knife in it
a debut performance that carries everything
the indie-crossover peak, backlash and all
Meadows' best
Mulligan's arrival
Arnold's best
Anderson's most purely charming
a Mark Twain story with McConaughey
sprawling, alive
three chapters, one life
summer as a whole climate
precise, generous
poverty at kid's-eye level
the most accurate film about being 13
Granik's quietest
two halves, two perspectives
the scene that gives it the title
PTA's loosest
Pixar's most specific film
told almost entirely in first-person POV
