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Films about suburbia typically caricature the bare, brittle conformity of lawn and lane; Michael Cuesta, director of indie fave L.I.E., finds beauty in it, intercutting sequences of whip-sharp candor with brief, glistening fantasy. In his critically-lauded rendering of an adolescent boy??€™s knotted relationship with an older man in the wake of his mother’s death, Cuesta is gentle, but spares his characters nothing...
...true local form, Southie seems to be pulling out all the stops to elect their ‘hometown boy??€™ to Congress...
...budding relationship with Jamal shares screen time with the boy??€™s transition, bucked by his high test scores, from his multiethnic Bronx school to a prestigious Manhattan academy for snotty rich kids. Of course, this new school embraces the worst tendencies of the privileged class; appearance over substance is their collective lifestyle. Rich treats this view with uncomfortable unsubtlety, at one point even permitting a basketball teammate of Jamal’s to sneer at him, “You may think we’re the same, but we?...