I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

A special film. because you believe to know. the story, the characters, the end. and it is enough to admire the atmosphere . so realistic made. but you wrong. because ... . it is the film of surprises. gray, bitter, reminding old comic strip collection. but, it is different. not real new. but coherent in wise style. but ingenious. and this is the basic motif. for see it. maybe, twice.