Katrina is a Resource Writer for Collider. Her encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture extends across film, TV shows, literature and even video games. After the life-changing viewing of Inception, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban Northern California hometown of Fremont to tell a ...

Sometimes I think the best “coming of age” stories are the ones that open old wounds. The older we get, the harder it is to remember exactly what it was like to be young and inexperienced, stepping ...

Coming of age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three ...

The first film I watched through my fingers this year was not Longlegs or The Watchers—or anything close to a horror movie. It was Dìdi (弟弟), a coming-of-age indie I caught in January at the Sundance ...

Writer-director Sean Wang’s honest, often brutal ode to adolescence has an unlikable protagonist and great performances by Izaac Wang and Joan Chen. “Dìdi” is advertised as a movie “for anyone who’s ...

From festival grants to a job at Google to his own grandma, the Fremont native’s personal journey contributed to his semiautobiographical coming-of-age movie, which is the opening night feature at ...

Sean Wang is a filmmaker whose documentary short film “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó” was a loving look at his grandmothers. It was Oscar nominated in 2023 and served as an impressive calling card for the young ...

This review was originally part of our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Ah, adolescence. That awkward time in life where you're trying desperately to fit in while also trying to stand out ...

Coming of age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three ...