Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

Director James Ponsoldt's latest film follows four best friends as they try to solve a mystery on the last weekend before the first day of middle school. By Angie Han Television Critic The film opens ...

It’s hard to think of a movie better timed than “Summering,” which opens with this bit of narration: “In the summer, while it lasts, everything is alive. Anything is possible. At least it feels that ...

On a balmy Labor Day weekend, four best friends find a dead body in the woods, the discovery marking an end of innocence as adolescence beckons. If you think you’ve seen this one before, “Summering” ...

'Summering' looks at female adolescence, nostalgia, and summer adventures. Unfortunately, it lacks a much-needed emotional core to push the film forward. L-R: Madalen Mills as Dina, Sanai Victoria as ...

If movies have taught us anything it’s that childhood is a magical time where, if you’re doing it right, you befriend space aliens, rescue orcas, inherit chocolate factories or play every sport ...

“Summering” is a tender coming-of-age story that follows four best friends, Daisy (played by Lia Barnett), Dina (played by Madalen Mills), Mari (played by Eden Grace Redfield) and Lola (played by ...

Four besties stumble on a dead body during the final week of their summer vacation in a cloying, slipshod kids’ drama. “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve,” the ...

Oh, to be a person who summers as a verb instead of one for whom summer is a puny noun. Forgive the fancy phrasing above, but “to summer” always brings to mind one of those gauzily lit movies in which ...

There’s a moment within the first few minutes of Summering — James Ponsoldt’s delicate, affectionate tribute to the wonder years (or more specifically, the seasonal wonder months) between childhood’s ...

Sundance regular James Ponsoldt returns to film — if not quite to form — in this agreeable but thinly conceived coming-of-age ramble. On a balmy Labor Day weekend, four best friends find a dead body ...