20 minutes into watching Dinner in America, I turned to my wife and said that I wished this movie had existed back when I was in high school. Aesthetically, it has a lot in common with those mid-90s to early-00s indie romcoms I sought out in my teens — movies like Todd Solondz's Happiness or Miranda July's You and Me and Everyone You Know, those kind of slice-of-life suburban explorations that are at once wholesome and endearing yet also totally fucked and inappropriate for teens (in a wonderful way). — Read the rest
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