Female Film Critics 24/375
What is it about a summer beach romance? The young adult drama Along for the Ride hits some familiar beats but has a charming old-fashioned sweetness, like the fried dough or waffles and ice cream treats along the shore. Making her feature directing debut, writer Sofia Alvarez adapts best-selling author Sarah Dessen’s novel about a bright high school graduate during the summer before college. Along for the Ride is an enjoyable trip.
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Structured as much around tensions between city and country as it is past and present, The Cow is one of those deeply complex films that through the joint powers of its collaborators both in front and behind the camera somehow manages to make it all look very easy indeed. Whether the twist works – and oh boy, what a twist it is – will ultimately be up to the taste preferences of the given viewer, but there is no doubt that the set up alone makes this film well worth the ride alone. Once again proving that the long-awaited Winona Ryder renaissance is well and truly here, The Cow is regardless so much more than a star vehicle.
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