Cinema has seen a few non-traditional coming-of-age movies, and the world’s all the better because of it.

It’s a refreshingly unique twist not just on the period biopic genre but the coming-of-age as well.

But when she’s forced to eat raw meat, Justine’s true self begins to form.

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Modern vampire movies don’t have a great reputation butLet the Right One Inmight just be the very best.

Boyhoodis more than a simple gimmicky film, though.

It’s strange and unsettling, and its message is all the more powerful because of it.

Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette

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It’s also the most bizarre celebration of young women’s femininity and the absurdity of maturing.

Mirroris a slow-burner and hard to follow, but it’s worth the effort.

It’s so unique that it’s hard to categorize it into any definitive genre.

Charlie Tahan in Super Dark Times

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Justine in the movie, Raw, with a bloody nose.

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A young girl with blood on her face turning to her right in Let the Right one in

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Marie and Marie in the sea

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Spider-Gang on ceiling of Miles Morales' bedroom

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The child from Mirror looking at a lamp on a desk

Ofelia in the underworld kingdom in Pan’s Labyrinth

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