The coming-of-age genre has produced many genuinely perfect movies, from the musical glee of Sing Street to the nostalgic ...

CHARLIE POLINGER: When you're 12 or 13 years old, even really small things can feel enormous. And so my goal in directing it ...

This lush, spellbinding coming-of-age film explores memory, faith, and adolescence through a supernatural lens ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." We love coming-of-age movies for a lot of reasons. They can break your heart, bring back memories both ...

Coming-of-age is a timeless subgenre of cinema that stays ever popular because of the simultaneously comforting and confrontational nature of storytelling that it's associated with. A good ...

Will you agree that Stand By Me is the ultimate coming-of-age film, or will you decide it’s more barf-o-rama than bildungsroman? The only way to find out is to stream it on Netflix. By the time it’s ...

While a good coming-of-age film can connect with audiences that see themselves represented onscreen, a truly great entry in the genre can address universal themes of growing up that any viewer can ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook 2012’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a powerful adolescent drama about trauma and repression, ...