| The bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah is an important coming-of-age ceremony in Judaism. |
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| In this time of tell-all public confessionals, I'm coming clean about my own coming-of-age, as it were. |
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| It is a performance that marks something of a coming-of-age for the actor, who adopts an American accent and an altogether more grungy look. |
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| In Levy's coming-of-age story, she is a sarcastic 16-year-old who becomes the first girl to join her high school's jazz band. |
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| Behind that coming-of-age innocence and strong-will of Swift is an intense artistic decision. |
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| That, coupled with him wanting it to be a coming-of-age movie, felt fresh to me. |
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| Weaving folklore, political drama, a coming-of-age story, and a morality tale together, Bauerdick has created an original. |
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| Note to Self is goofy, sweet, and all the things you want in a coming-of-age story. |
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| Simply select a season from your formative years and recast that glorious summer as a coming-of-age narrative. |
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| Starlet is a coming-of-age story, and Hemingway deftly maneuvers from the role of a relatable kid to a caring young woman. |
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| It blended the coming-of-age story, inspired largely by Dickens, with the magical wonders of Tolkien. |
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| In most coming-of-age novels, the protagonist wants to break away from a world that is holding him down. |
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| The cast was as wide-eyed and young as the characters they played in the coming-of-age musical. |
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| True, the book is subtle and extremely restrained, compared to writers' coming-of-age bacchanalian classics like On the Road. |
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| The economic attraction reflects successes in economic development and coming-of-age as a medium-sized community. |
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| Stitches is a poignant and gripping coming-of-age story that deals with bullying, disabilities and abuse. |
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| The inclusion of two Ottawa restaurants on the list is recognition of the coming-of-age of the capital's food scene. |
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| It polishes another familiar genre, the coming-of-age movie, to a fine gleam of wit. |
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| And it is a traditional coming-of-age story, the struggle of an adolescent girl to find her voice. |
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| The incident began on January 26, 2003, during a coming-of-age ceremony in Paya, a Kuna village inside the park. |
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| The movie is a marvel of special effects seamlessly hitched to a powerful coming-of-age story. |
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| Swimming Upstream is an interesting genre hybrid, part family melodrama, part sporting saga, part coming-of-age story. |
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| The jury has long favoured feel-good coming-of-age films, character studies with a moral, well-crafted films from a bygone time. |
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| Natasha Arthy: It is a coming-of-age film with a message that uses physical kung fu instead of words. |
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| Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, which recounts the first nineteen years of the character of Jane Eyre, in the first-person voice. |
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| In the coming-of-age dramedy Whole New Thing, cowritten by and costarring out Canadian Daniel MacIvor, a precocious 13-year-old falls for his promiscuous gay teacher. |
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| Avenue Q is a coming-of-age parable, addressing and satirizing the issues associated with entering adulthood. |
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| The coming-of-age Russian drama charts the life and survival of three young teenage girls living a brutalist Moscow suburb. |
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| Cineuropa: Would you describe Fighter as a kung fu movie with a message or a coming-of-age movie that uses martial arts as an allegoric tool? |
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| A coming-of-age romance set during the First World War and its aftermath, it garnered favourable reviews and won the prestigious John Llewelyn Prize. |
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| I danced into the morning to celebrate the coming-of-age of young men and fell asleep in a dark hut while marriages and deaths were commemorated in song. |
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| Is behind-the-scenes duplicity, cloaked in coming-of-age business dilemma, the new norm for major-label moves? |
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| The main character of this coming-of-age story is the social network, that's what it's all about. |
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| Voleurs de Chevaux is an adventure story, as well as a coming-of-age tale about Jakub, a young, cast-off Cossack trying to regain his dignity. |
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| If all this were the setup for a coming-of-age story in which Important Lessons Are Learned, it would be forgivable. |
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| The religious themes are cleverly handled so as not to appear preachy or judgemental, while the coming-of-age material is frank but never voyeuristic. |
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| Many Conservative and Reform congregations have instituted a similar ceremony, called the bat mitzvah, to celebrate the coming-of-age of girls. |
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| A magisterially written war bildungsroman, it narrated the coming-of-age of an aristocratic boy in occupied Veneto after the 1917 Battle of Caporetto. |
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| There is a lot wrong with Sally Potter's coming-of-age drama Ginger and Rosa, including an overemphatic script, a galumphing sincerity and some dodgy accents. |
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| Monkeyshines aside, this is a story of Everyfamily in which loss engraves relationships, truth is a soulful stalker and coming-of-age means facing down the mirror, recognizing the shape-shifting notion of self. |
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| The author's third novel is a spooky coming-of-age tale set in West Salem, Massachusetts, a town whose witch-hanging history both captivates and circumscribes the lives of the teen-age girls who reside there. |
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| Well-meaning, well-acted coming-of-age yarn about a British nerd whose bar mitzvah coincides with the 1966 World Cup final. |
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| For Rich Cohen, the '80s was his coming-of-age decade and Glencoe on the North Shore of Chicago his fledging perch. |
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| It's a heartwarmingly funny coming-of-age tale that is definitely worth a watch. |
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| The Wolfpack Cert 15 THIS toothless documentary begins as a disturbing exploration of abuse and ends as a sunny coming-of-age tale. |
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| These absorbing coming-of-age passages are followed by equally engaging recollections of Rushdie's London jobs as an advertising copywriter, where he developed his distinctive verbal bounciness. |
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| Torres: Sprinter Mackenzie Scott goes for a full-on dissection of her upbringing and coming-of-age journey on this PJ Harvey soundalike album of 90s guitar fuzz. |
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| It's a scenario that would lend itself to a chilling horror film about demonic possession, or a coming-of-age drama about female empowerment and sexuality, or a sly comedy about adolescent histrionics. |
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| Body Blows assembles Miller's six major solo shows, from his frisky, earthy coming-of-age story Some Golden States in 1987 to 1999's mournful Glory Box. |
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