Lucas Hedges

Let Them All Talk is a witty and unpretentious story about overcompensating and pretentious people.

Although it might be misread by some as a crowd goosing melodrama, Peter Hedges’ Ben is Back is a moving and often painfully realistic depiction of a family coping with the addiction issues of a loved one that feels like a vital and gut-wrenching piece of cinema tailor made for the current opioid crisis.

Boy Erased, the second directorial effort from actor and writer Joel Edgerton, takes an uncomfortable and wholly moving look at a young man, full of doubt, who’s sent to an unspeakably awful place to “recover.”

Mid90s, the gritty, purposefully un-PC directorial debut of actor Jonah Hill, is the rare sort of nostalgia trip that’s tinged with more mortification and subtle regret than an open embrace of one’s younger years.