2018 · drama · sports
Amateur
Directed by Ryan Koo1h 36m2018
14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
Our read: Amateur (2018) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · sports entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / sports, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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