Whether they’re emotionally devastating or leave you with a feeling of hope, coming-of-age movies are a critical genre. Maybe there’s a classic you’ve somehow never seen or a newer indie that’s ...

Author Sandra Cisneros, who penned standout coming-of-age novel "The House on Mango Street," speaks at the 2024 National Book Festival at The Walter E. Washington Convention Center on August 24, 2024.

Coming-of-age films remind us that growth rarely happens all at once. They capture the quiet shifts and emotional turning points that define adolescence and young adulthood, often through honest ...

On the day before my high school graduation, my friends and I piled into our cars and headed to the beach. Hours later, as our bonfire fizzled out, we crept toward the shore. The cool water swallowed ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook 2012’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a powerful adolescent drama about trauma and repression, ...

I Wish You All the Best” offers “a fantasy version of what community should look like” for young people seeking to live as ...

The new queer coming-of-age film, I Wish You All the Best, based on the Mason Deaver book of the same name, follows a teen, ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Composed by an Austin duo, the musical about rival gangs in 1965 Tulsa is based on the S.E. Hinton novel and Francis Ford ...