The film gets at the profound truth that our relationship with another person is, at its core, a collection of shared memories.
Chad Hartigan’s film is especially perceptive about the effect of external influence on personal development.
At its best, with its quiet, ominous pace in the early going and its economical distribution of information throughout, the film is reminiscent of Todd Haynes’s Safe.
Dance Party, USA is attuned to teenspeak frequencies, but its title is some kind of presumptuous.