It turned out to be a good thing that I didn't know much about Short Term 12 going into it, because that made its impact all the greater. This is one of those little independent films - like Monsters, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Mud - that has a glow to it, sensitively directed and carried along by at least one stand out performance (here, it's Brie Larson's natural, forcefully conveyed central turn). It was like exactly everything that this film wanted me to think and feel, I did.
(w/ Cass)
(w/ Cass)
