In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban Northern California hometown of Fremont to tell a semi-autobiographical story of life as a 13-year-old Taiwanese American growing up there ...

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 ...

All coming-of-age movies essentially hit the same beats: the getting of wisdom, the loss of innocence, the passage from childhood to some hard-won form of adulthood. Only the names, regions, eras and ...

From festival grants to a job at Google to his own grandma, the Fremont native’s personal journey contributed to his semiautobiographical coming-of-age movie, which is the opening night feature at ...

After several months of having Didi on the list of 2024 movies I needed to check out, I finally got around to watching Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story with my Peacock ...

Sometimes I think the best “coming of age” stories are the ones that open old wounds. The older we get, the harder it is to remember exactly what it was like to be young and inexperienced, stepping ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Focus Features will release “Dìdi” in theaters Friday, July 26. Anybody who’s suffered through the ...

There has long been a truism in Hollywood that movies released in August are second-tier, that anything coming at the tail end of the summer season is being expelled rather than released. It sometimes ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The seventh movie in the “Alien” franchise arrives, because they don’t count “Alien vs Predator,” which is a travesty because it’s excellent. “Alien Romulus” looks pretty ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Director Sean Wang on how he used his Google Creative Labs experience to turn 2008-era AIM and Myspace into cinematic storytelling tools. In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban ...