Review of Mid90s

For starters, it's an entertaining movie. I enjoyed it, it didn't bore me at all, and it's short. The acting is quite good, especially Sunny Suljic's. It's a good story, but it doesn't really deepen the characters. Stevie's story more or less goes deeper but you don't really understand what happens in his house, why he goes with these new friends. It does not deepen the character of his brother, Ian, you do not understand why he is so resentful of him. Nor do you understand what the mother is up to, at times she worries but at other times you are given to understand that she is not (for example when the man comes out of her room). As for Ray, he is a very good character for nothing deepened. You don't know why he worries so much about Stevie, but not about Ruben who is almost the same age. They don't tell you much about his life but what he wants is to get out of that neighborhood and make progress. They could have made a very nice bonding relationship between Stevie and Ray, but they didn't. One scene, they spend the night skateboarding together, you kind of see a bond but not beyond that.

In other words, it's a good movie, a good story, but it lacked depth. On the other hand, Lucas Hedges is an excellent actor who will go far, and in this movie he appears for two minutes and his character does not have much history.