In The Edge of Seventeen, life teeters on all the realistic emotions

Remember high school? There was kid who had to be liked and that kid who didn’t want to be liked. Sometimes they were the same kid on different days. Sometimes, maybe, that kid was even you. At the center of The Edge of Seventeen is Nadine. As written by and directed by Kelly Fremont Craig…

I love some more Richard Linklater coming-of-age brilliance!!

The buzzed kids in Dazed in Confused did end up going to college. Metaphorically, in the mind of terrific writer and director Richard Linklater, it turns out. And so a quick 23 years after that breakthrough coming-of-age film that drew up the extremely realistic final May 1976 high school days of a group of Texas…