Not one scene here is likely to surprise, but what a lovely, unashamedly emotional and affectionate look at friendship.

Goodbye, Don Glees! finds space for big emotions, and especially for the boys, who live in a culture where expressing those emotions is frowned upon, to navigate their growth and change on their own terms.

Ably captures the same precarious period of life that's familiar from iconic summer adventures like Stand By Me and The Goonies–those teenage years where the world of childhood begins to feel too small and the adult realm looms terrifyingly large up ahead

Ishizuka seems like an artist that has what it takes to move to the top of the movie industry considering her ideas, if, however, she manages to improve her writing, and particularly to adapt her ideas to the more condensed form of the feature movie.