Genre: coming-of-age

Films about the specific stretch of years when a person stops being a child and finds out what that costs. The form is unusually honest about scale: the stakes are a summer, a friendship, a single school day, and the film has to make those weigh as much as any thriller. The reviews look at how these stories handle time, how they treat the adults at the edges of the frame, and why the good ones resist the temptation to explain the lesson.