Mantras

thematically connected

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The epistolary novel that defined its generation of outsiders

thematically connected

All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

thematically connected

Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

thematically connected

Boyhood

Linklater filmed a boy growing up over twelve years — the most patient portrait of adolescence in cinema

thematically connected

Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness