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THIS MONTH Over the Edge and Bully

welcome to Golden Grahams, my new column spotlighting ace movies that are underseen or underappreciated. Films in the canon get enough love. Let’s talk about the finest obscurities and oddities, or the odd more-famous title that doesn’t get the respect it deserves. I’ll tell you, you tell your mates.

There aren’t many better pictures about disaffected youth than Jonathan (1979) and Larry Clark’s (2001). I discovered both when I was a disaffected youth myself, and now that I’m a disaffected middle-aged man who’s nostalgic for his disaffected youth, they retain their power.

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