Two teens prank their school principal by upending his car in writer-director Neo Sora’s "Happyend." (Courtesy Film Movement) When you’re a teenager, everything feels like the end of the world. So ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Team LAT wrapped up another trip to Toronto this week, seeing a lot of movies, talking to ...

Indie director Nobuhiro Yamashita was not under the impression that he had much insight into the lives of high-school girls. For his first three features (Hazy Life (1999), No One’s Ark (2003), and ...