Babyteeth

Stories of adolescence are some of the hardest to tell on screen in new and interesting ways, and the added complexities of terminal illness and a morally questionable teen romance that 'Babyteeth' adds to this makes the film feel like a miracle in how well it pulls almost every element off. Its cas…

Her parents (Ben Mendelssohn and Essie Davis) aren’t best pleased when their terminally ill daughter “Milla” (Eliza Scanlen) hooks up with deadbeat “Moses” (Toby Wallace). She is smitten with this older lad, but their concerns would seem to be borne out when he is caught trying to steal from this fa…