The neon haze of 'Beach Rats' Courtesy Frank Schramm / Montclair Film Harris Dickinson, who plays Frankie in the movie Beach Rats, is pictured at the Montclair Film Festival.

Near the end of the movie, Frankie tells his friends that he uses gay chat rooms to score weed. Without revealing too much, this semi-confession leads to a moment in which Frankie is forced to pretend ...

Eliza Hittman’s second feature, from 2017, like her début, “It Felt Like Love,” is set in southern Brooklyn, centered on an adolescent’s sexual conflicts, and directed with a vigorous and ...