Mid90s

Name: Mid90s
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: October 19, 2018
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Alexa Demie, Cici Lau, Di Vinci SanTana Guthrie, Fig Camila Abner, Gio Galicia

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A24 | Release Date: October 19, 2018 | R

Starring: Alexa Demie, Cici Lau, Di Vinci SanTana Guthrie, Fig Camila Abner, Gio Galicia, Jax Malcolm, Jerrod Carmichael, Kasey Elise, Katherine Waterston, Lauren B. Mosley, Liana Perlich, Lucas Hedges, Margaret Newborn, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Ryder McLaughlin, Stephane Nicoli, Sunny Suljic

Summary: Mid 90s follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 90s-era LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

Director: Jonah Hill

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 85 min

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Leah Greenblatt

Oct 10, 2018

He (Hill) makes Mid90s resonate with universal poignancy and electric energy; his kids are the best, messiest kind of real, and they’re alright. Read full review

John DeFore

Sep 11, 2018

A gender-flipped sibling to Crystal Moselle's Skate Kitchen (set in Los Angeles versus that film's NYC), its narrative of sudden belonging and onrushing perils mirrors that Sundance entry. But in emotional punch and shoulda-seen-this-coming skill, it is more like Hill's Lady Bird, a gem that feels simultaneously informed by its author's adolescence and the product of a serious artist's observational distance. Read full review

Kerry Lengel

Oct 25, 2018

Hill isn’t offering a sociological treatise. Mid90s is all about lived experience. It’s about a place and a time and offers little inkling of its characters’ futures. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Sep 13, 2018

It’s as though Hill wrote a much longer script and decided to ultimately pare everything down without realizing just how hollow he was rendering supporting players in the process. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 22, 2018

Mid90s becomes, in full flower, a movie with characters more interesting or unusual than its very conventional story and setting, not a bad film so much as an incomplete one. Read full review

Justin Chang

Oct 18, 2018

Mid90s possesses just enough sensitivity and feeling to make you wish it had more. Hill’s script aims for, and often achieves, a fleeting, fragmentary portrait of group dynamics, but it’s stymied in its attempts to distinguish Stevie’s pals as individuals rather than types. Read full review

Jake Cole

Sep 13, 2018

Jonah Hill constantly falls back on providing vague justification for his characters' behaviors, along with spoonfuls of sentiment to let the more dour moments go down easier. Read full review

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DavidGamble57

May 3, 2020

Thought it was a great ride, with extreme highs and extreme lows with great performances and characters. I do think however, this movie will really depend on you, and your past experiences. For me, it hit the mark.

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Planetvibz

Dec 29, 2018

A beautifully nuanced film. It perfectly captures the adolescent biological urge to escape the numb, abhorrent vacuum that exists in the absence of nurturing role models. Anything that offers even a tenuous sense of belonging and acceptance is an intoxicating alternative, no matter theA beautifully nuanced film. It perfectly captures the adolescent biological urge to escape the numb, abhorrent vacuum that exists in the absence of nurturing role models. Anything that offers even a tenuous sense of belonging and acceptance is an intoxicating alternative, no matter the danger. Rather than be morally outraged by the events depicted, I suspect Jonah Hill would prefer the film goer left with a renewed incentive to be a nurturing role model in a society that is literally crying out for them.… Expand

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mthershey

Jun 28, 2019

This movie is a great trip back in time, with a uncanny amount of true to time detail. The movie being shot with 16mm film with a 4:3 ratio was just a cherry on top, and a nod to 90s skate culture respectively. The movie lacked an overall plot but that didn’t take too make away from thisThis movie is a great trip back in time, with a uncanny amount of true to time detail. The movie being shot with 16mm film with a 4:3 ratio was just a cherry on top, and a nod to 90s skate culture respectively. The movie lacked an overall plot but that didn’t take too make away from this film. Outstanding directing from Jonah Hill.… Expand

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bfoore90

Nov 14, 2020

A film about a kid trying to find a family cause his home life sucks. Its a movie rich in 90s nostalgia from the dress, to the game systems to the music, it feels like it was made in the 90s. Outside the main character, alot of the other characters, while very good (i especially liked Na-KelA film about a kid trying to find a family cause his home life sucks. Its a movie rich in 90s nostalgia from the dress, to the game systems to the music, it feels like it was made in the 90s. Outside the main character, alot of the other characters, while very good (i especially liked Na-Kel Smith's character) lack depth and an effective connection with the progression of the film. While its nowhere near flawless, I respect what Jonah Hill put into his directorial debute and if nothing else, its a good trip down memory lane.… Expand

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LamontRaymond

Oct 27, 2018

I enjoyed the film, but it's not a special movie. I expected more from the mom, the brother, and really from the kid himself. It was also a little creepy seeing what looked like a 5th-grader preparing to have sex with a high school girl. Sad but true.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

TVJerry

Oct 30, 2018

Sunny Suljic plays a 13-year-old who's desperate to fit in with an older group of skaters, while escaping the bullying of his brother (Lucas Hedge effective as a tough guy). Comparisons to Larry Clark's KIDS (which was actually made in the 90s) are inevitable. Writer/director Jonah HillSunny Suljic plays a 13-year-old who's desperate to fit in with an older group of skaters, while escaping the bullying of his brother (Lucas Hedge effective as a tough guy). Comparisons to Larry Clark's KIDS (which was actually made in the 90s) are inevitable. Writer/director Jonah Hill shot this in a 4:3 ratio to mimic the video standard of that time. It has the same kind of raw style that surrounds a cast of mostly real skaters, jiving, cussing and getting high. While there's not a plot as such, things happen and Suljic creates an earnest, sweet kid in search of friendship. The skaters are completely at home being themselves (or variations). It's a rambling, but genuine and interesting first effort.… Expand

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dchipps1945

Oct 28, 2018

Everyone who's ever been a 12-year-old boy has written this story in his head. This film plays like a pre-adolescent super-fantasy, including sexual encounters with hot teenage girls, enough substance abuse to knock out a horse (with no effects whatsoever), and accidents and mishaps thatEveryone who's ever been a 12-year-old boy has written this story in his head. This film plays like a pre-adolescent super-fantasy, including sexual encounters with hot teenage girls, enough substance abuse to knock out a horse (with no effects whatsoever), and accidents and mishaps that would kill the horse and the whole posse.

I get the impression this was an old screenplay Jonah Hill wrote in film school, and he could now produce (I have no idea whether Jonah Hill went to film school). It has events without consequences (the mishaps, substance abuse, and the film's great tragic event), resolutions without understandable cause (the character-transformation of the kid's brother and the final scene between the mom and the kid's friends), and situations without explanation (Just who owns the skateboard shop? Is there such a thing as school in this kid's life? Just how old is he supposed to be, anyway?).

I expected a sort of gritty-but-realistic portrayal of this life, not some squealing little kid's wet dream.… Expand

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