If last year’s The Edge of Seventeen felt like the Kids of Today as portrayed by a (smart, sensitive) grown-up, this year’s Get Big is very much The Kids of Today as portrayed by the kids themselves. (Small surprise, since writer/director/star Dylan Moran is all of 24 years old.) The feel is looser, the dialogue less studied, the drama less high-stakes. But the earnestness remains, along with the anxiety about how and who to be, and the persistent awkwardness of youthful sexcapades. Newbie college kid Nate (Moran) heads home for the weekend to attend the wedding of a high-school acquaintance who’s been saving his first kiss for marriage, and decides to spend the hours leading up to the nuptials with his old pal Alec (a winning, grinning Tanner Stine), a good-time guy uneager to leave his carefree youth behind. The film’s great virtue is its verisimilitude, followed by its gently crude humor, its affectionate heart, and its pleasantly surprising degree of polish. (2017) — Matthew Lickona
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