Coming of age stories depend upon authenticity if they are to have any power whatsoever. I've certainly seen enough phony versions of a young man's first steps into a larger world to know when something rings true and when it doesn't. The strength of "Funeral Kings," the debut feature of Kevin and Matthew McManus, is that it evokes a sustained emotional state that perfectly captures life at a certain age, straining against everyone else's definition of you, in a way that suggests these are filmmakers worth watching. Charlie (Alex Maizus) and Andy (Dylan Hartigan) and Felix (Charles Kwame Odei) are friends,...
- 3/11/2012
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
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