It’s a sensitive, sweet, frequently heartbreaking trip through deeply personal history...

A nuanced exploration of situational ethics tinged with guilt, it's a small, near-perfect New York story.

...offers a coming-of-age tale that's both timeless and timely.

...a thoughtful examination of one’s own limited perspective of whiteness, expounding upon how a young child’s naivete can be as dangerous as a direct act of prejudice.

...cinematic autofiction...

Messy family life and moral ideals perfuse the film’s landscape but the film shows how these things can become the foundational elements of an individual’s life.

James Gray interrogates his fraught childhood in Regan-era New York City in this masterful, unflinching drama.

Both a coming of age and an exploration of an era, this self-biographical reminiscence feels both regretful and hopeful – a filmmaker trying to make peace.