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Movie Review: ‘Dìdi’ is a warm, nostalgic hug straight from 2008

Jul. 23, 2024 18:33 PM EDT

Coming of age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three things — all while keeping the story of a child of immigrants at its heart — are harder to...

In Sean Wang's 'Dìdi,' a portrait of an artist as a young skater kid

Jul. 23, 2024 12:03 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Within the span of five days in January, Sean Wang’s life changed about as dramatically as is possible for a young filmmaker. On Jan. 19, Wang’s “Nai Nai & Wài Pó,” a documentary short about his two grandmothers, was nominated for an Academy Award. On...