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Mid90s (2018) I really wanted to like this film, I really did. It is not a bad film by any means, but it becomes apparent about halfway through that its tone and direction is fairly misguided. At times, the film plays out like the grungy faux-doc films of the 90's/early-00's by Larry Clark and Harmony Korine that centred on youth cultures. Director/writer, Jonah Hill's, inspiration by these predecessors is quite apparent from the relatively no-name cast, the grainy film style, the improvised dialogue sequences, and the small cameo by Korine himself. However, it is, perhaps, Hill's Hollywood sensibilities that restrain him from taking the film to that next (and difficult) level that the earlier films, Kids, Bully and Gumbo, were able to reach. As one would surmise, Mid90s is about the youth of the 1990s, specifically here, a boy on the cusp of teenagehood, Stevie (Sunny Suljic), who tries to escape his violent brother (Lucas Hedges) and often non-present mother (Ka...