Young Hearts

“Young Hearts” is a film that doesn’t traffic in big plot twists or dramatic reveals. It’s a film that treasures fragile thoughts and feelings, rare in a film these days.

Young Hearts” is buoyed by a sense of hopefulness and that there’s a comforting blanket of warmth from people around you.

Sweet and earnest, this is the kind of film that’s easy to wrap your arms around because it understands that coming of age is inherently traumatic.

“Young Hearts” is a more wholesome, and ultimately more cliché, endeavor.

The film truthfully hints at the sharp whirs behind the smooth façade of everyday life.

... A film whose queer positivity should be a balm to LGBTQ kids wrestling with their sexuality as well as to parents struggling with acceptance.

This pleasant, nicely crafted junior romance provides an encouraging vision of coming out as a flightpath in which the only resistance you encounter might be that you’re generating yourself.

This movie is less about painful heartbreak and more about the delicate and beautiful transformation of coming to love yourself—and others—for who they truly are.


{The] emotional authenticity that will resonate with viewers young and old.

A tender, heartwarming and refreshing coming-of-age story with shades of Eric Rohmer.