Josephine Decker’s Chasing Summer is steeped in indie coming-of-age movie clichés and millennial nostalgia, from its throwback soundtrack to its familiar arc of reluctant homecoming. For a filmmaker once celebrated for her emotional and visual risk-taking, the film’s conventionality comes as a bit of a surprise. It’s both a romantic comedy and a coming-of-age story, yet it fails to generate much romance or laughs, and it hits all the familiar beats with far too much predictability.

Spoiler-free video review for Francis Lawrence’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Long Walk, starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Garrett Wareing.