Review of mid90s (2018) by Moviemitch96 — 24 Oct 2018

The mid90s is the era I was born in, so a big part of my excitement for this film prior to seeing it was the nostalgia factor that I was really looking forward to, and it definitely delivered on that front! A pretty solid 90s soundtrack and other great nods to the era were great to hear and see! What's more, the entire film was shot on an old 16 mm camera in a 4:3 aspect ratio to make it feel like a film straight outta the 90s, which was really neat! As for the story, with the exception of the main child and a couple side characters, there weren't too many particularly sympathetic characters, and while the first half started out pretty light-hearted and fun for the most part, the story became unnecessarily heavy-handed and dramatic more and more as the film progressed, and I therefore felt that the film had kind of a hard time finding a good and consistent tone balance.

Overall, it did have great nostalgic and charming moments throughout, but really when all's said and done with the film, it felt a little too obvious to me that this was Jonah Hill's first attempt at directing, which isn't quite what I was hoping for.

Truth be told, I was hoping I'd really like or even love it, but I simply liked it. Like I said though, the film certainly wasn't without its great qualities, such as the retro filming style, soundtrack, and good ol' nostalgia from start to finish, so if that intrigues you, it may be worth checking out at least once.