Rolling Stone Mary J. Blige Stars in New Trailer for ‘The Violent Heart’
Grace Van Patten and Jovan Adepo play star-crossed lovers in
Romeo and Juliet-esque story set in American heartland
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The Violent Heart, a coming-of-age drama about star-crossed lovers.
“As a young boy, Daniel followed his sister into the woods when she ran away with an unknown man, only for the night to end in her tragic murder,” the film’s synopsis states. “Fifteen years later, Daniel remains unsettled by the mysteries surrounding his sister’s death as his tendencies toward outbursts of violence lurk beneath his taciturn demeanor. Unexpectedly, Daniel finds himself falling for vivacious high school senior Cassie, who manages to break through his emotional barriers. Just as Daniel is ready to put his past behind him, Cassie discovers a sinister secret about that fateful night in the woods.”
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Charm City Kings (2020) by Puerto Rican director Angel Manuel Soto.
‘Charm City Kings’ (2020)
The director Angel Manuel Soto does similar wonders with familiar materials in this Baltimore-set street drama, which explicitly recalls such urban coming-of-age pictures as “Boyz N the Hood” and “Juice.” But Soto finds a fresh approach, taking an almost anthropological appreciation of the setting the film was inspired by the 2014 documentary “12 O’Clock Boys,” and aims for a similar lived-in authenticity while complicating his characters beyond their stock types. The performers do much of that work as well; young Jahi Di’Allo Winston is impressively assured as the protagonist Mouse, while the rapper Meek Mill finds just the right notes as Mouse’s troubled role model and father figure.
âCharm City Kings,â âBabyteethâ and Other Hidden Streaming Gems
You may have missed these under-the-radar movies this year. Nowâs your chance to catch up.
Jahi DiâAllo Winston plays Mouse, the hero of âCharm City Kings,â directed by Angel Manuel Soto.Credit.William Gray/HBO Max
Dec. 24, 2020
As 2020 sputters to its conclusion and film critics devise their year-end best-of lists (Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scottâs are here), the customary consensus begins to form around a handful of widely beloved titles: âFirst Cow,â âNever Rarely Sometimes Always,â âBeanpole,â âMartin Eden,â and the like. But a wide variety of at-home viewing options made this a particularly rich year for independent cinema, so in that spirit, this monthâs selection of hidden streaming gems focuses solely on the films of 2020 â from heartfelt indie dramas to searing documentaries to, yes, a thriller about a man and his po