“The Way Back”: Sobriety Is Its Own Reward
A man struggling with the death of his son agrees to coach his former high school basketball team.

Written and Directed by 16-year-old Aaron Avont Johnson. Lost is set in contemporary South Florida. This story follows the life of a young boy named Job who is trying to raise himself after a tragic accident destroys his family. As a result of Job's downfalls in life, he became homeless at the age of 12. Flash forward to his teen years, Job finds a mentor in an old drunk, who is also homeless, somehow filling an empty void of family in Job's life. He fights his way to have a normal life, but the odds are stacked against him.
A man struggling with the death of his son agrees to coach his former high school basketball team.
Based on the fairy character from previous movies, this fantasy movie gives viewers magic.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
This romance movie has strong representation of Taiwanese people.
The “gay best friend”, an age-old trope, has been done in countless films and television series. Ranging from one-note (Sex and the City's Stanford and Mario) to nuanced (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss), the gay best friend exists to support and advise the main protagonist, with their conflicts swept to the side.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.