Roughly midway through writer-director Eliza Hittman’s multilayered Brooklyn drama “Beach Rats” (2017), protagonist Frankie (Harris Dickinson) shaves off most of his floppy blond hair. The new look he ...

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“Beach Rats” is a stirring mood piece and a fine addition to director Eliza Hittman’s burgeoning body of works. The film’s rhythmic cycles sculpt its somber core — Hittman constructs a hazy ...

"Beach Rats," opening Friday, is a disturbing fictional shout-out to the perversities of young male sexuality. In its opening moments, a Brooklyn native proud of his body, Frankie (a dynamite debut ...

In Eliza Hittman’s debut feature, It Felt Like Love, a young girl tests the waters of adult sexuality, offering her body up to the statuesque bros who live in her Eastern Seaboard beach town. She ...

Struggling to acknowledge his sexuality but fearing what his swaggering buddies will think, a gay Brooklyn teenager makes a reckless decision which has devastating consequences in “Beach Rats,” Eliza ...