7.5
… the film does some things well. Its recreation of 1980s New York is convincing and cinematic.
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… balances deep-set defeatism reminiscent of the Coens’ A Serious Man with the sly subversiveness of the Safdies’ Uncut Gems to deliver a different kind of coming-of-age story.
James Gray (Ad Astra, The Lost City of Z, We Own the Night, Little Odessa) returns to more seemingly personal territory with this story about growing up in '80s America