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three men jumping in the air with trees and water behind them, one man is wearing black shorts

There's a furious and smart movie inside "The Kings of Summer," a first feature by director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, a film about three teenage boys who take to the woods to live outside parental supervision and community norms and expectations. Unfortunately, despite some beautiful sequences and solid acting, the script by first-timer Chris Galletta pulls its punches, over-explains the emotional meaning of its moments, and tries to lighten the mood in sometimes awkward sit-com-style ways…

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two young men are jumping into the water from a cliff near a lake with people swimming in it

Can't wait to see The Kings of Summer. From ELLE: "Nature is a central element in The Kings of Summer, beautifully but never sentimentally shot, and ultimately the teacher that Joe learns the most from. This is a coming-of-age story, but in the best way: Vogt-Roberts and Galletta have made a movie so ambitious that it both honors its genre and transcends it."

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a poster with the words, we do swear and an image of a town surrounded by trees

Spoilers! This review/discussion contains some mild spoilers. I suppose this could be a defence of The Kings of Summer, but unlike the Tideland defence the only thing this film needs defending from is itself. Released in 2013 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in that year, it received wild critical acclaim and while the full release did not gather as much praise, it is still a pretty well regarded little film with 76% on Rotten Tomatoes and 61 on Metacritic, which indicated a…

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