Continuing my countdown of last year’s best films…
Best Films of 2023
#2. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
As a father of two young women, I have long found that coming-of-age films about girls are my cinematic kryptonite. Whether it’s Lady Bird or CODA, The Florida Project or Moana, my year-end best-of lists are littered with movies about daughters.
Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig is already responsible for one such movie. Her 2016 The Edge of Seventeen is one of the sharpest teen comedies I’ve seen, and a showcase for the great Hailee Steinfeld (who also starred in another of my favorite movies in this genre, True Grit).
Meet Me In Montauk 