Short Term 12 (dir. Destin Daniel Cretton).

[It’s] a powerfully earnest and skillfully heartfelt drama about human struggles and the cyclical nature of abuse from child to adulthood. […] Cretton crafts a genuinely effecting, naturalistic film full of raw performances and emotional honesty. In the performance of her life, Brie Larson  plays a tough but vulnerable care worker, and former foster child herself, taking care of children in the titular group foster home for troubled kids and at risk youth.

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