GEORGE WASHINGTON [2000]

 

David Gordon Green's debut George Washington is such a wonderful and thoughtful film it makes you wonder if it's even the same guy who shat out Your Highness and The Sitter.  It's the type of film that stands beside Kids, Brick and Mean Creek as it paints a visually and emotionally unsettling atmosphere that grounds itself in such a strange and stark reality you can't turn away from.
It's filled to the brim with moments of such subtly it might require multiple viewings before you truly understand the masterful storytelling and complicated characters that you're introduced to here.

4 smelly mutts out of 5