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.Justin Chang reviews Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now” and Theda Hammel’s “Stress Positions,” both of which deal with domestic confinement. nyer.cm/CLaAoAF

“Baig’s film is a tender meditation on what we make with what we have and on the flights of imagination necessary to carve new paths ahead.” (AV CLUB)
#WeGrownNow is now playing in NY, LA & Chicago. Nationwide this Friday. Tickets.WeGrownNow.com

Go see this!! A seriously beautiful movie, always amazed at the talent of Steph Filo! 🇸🇱🇸🇯 and everyone else involved in this, on both sides of the camera

In 1992 Chicago, near the end of the Cabrini-Green housing projects, two boys navigate a world changing fast in Minhal Baig’s beguiling film, “We Grown Now,” writes Michael Phillips.
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Next week nationwide run to see it

Loved Minhal Baig’s Chicago-set coming-of-age portrait WE GROWN NOW when I saw it at TIFF. It’s grown on me even more in the months since, and now it’s out in theaters. Go see it.

My review via Screen International

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“A poetic reminiscence on love in its many mercurial forms.”
#WeGrownNow is the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Movie of the Week. Now playing in NY, LA and Chicago. Nationwide April 26.
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Tickets.WeGrownNow.com

We Grown Now is playing in NY, LA & Chi starting today:

NYC
Film Forum
AMC Lincoln Square 13
AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9

LA
AMC Century City 15
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw

Chicago
Siskel Film Center
AMC River East 21
Showplace ICON Theatre
AMC New City 14

Don’t miss one of the sweetest films of 2024. Minhal Baig poured so much passion and love into this beautiful Black portrait of childhood preciousness in the projects it reminded me of my own upbringing. Even down to grandmas needle in a dutch cookie tin can. It’s that authentic.

Opening Day! Hope you'll check out #WeGrownNow in theaters (Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago today 4/19, and nationwide next Friday 4/26)! ❤️

“A beautiful, creative and heartfelt love letter to Chicago.”

WE GROWN NOW — last year's Opening Night selection & Audience Choice Award winner — opens today at the AMC Newcity, River East & Gene Siskel Film Center! Don't miss this touching coming-of-age story from Chicagoan Minhal Baig.

We Grown Now comes out in theaters tomorrow. This film has taken me six years to make and it’s so incredibly rewarding to see it finally enter the world. My heart is so full.

Lil Rel Howery joins us to discuss his new film #WeGrownNow .

Linsey Davis: 'What drew you to this role?'

Lil Rel Howery: 'Chicago. I really like the fact that [Minhal Baig], our director and writer, really did her research.'

Check out the Academy Conversation for 'We Grown Now' featuring Lil Rel Howery and editor Stephanie Filo. youtube.com/watch?v=ckPiA_…

Thanks for the conversation Matt Feury and all you do for Avid and our industry!

''We Grown Now' will resonate with you for a very long time,' Richard Roeper writes. trib.al/Jh9C1Xw

So, Minhal Baig Joe Pirro Participant and so many more cherished colleagues began this journey before the pandemic, and this week it takes its next step into the world. So proud to be counted among the #WeGrownNow team. avclub.com/we-grown-now-m…

On a day with some very sad news I just feel grateful to have made a Participant film with so many good friends doing good work in a very tough business

It's heartbreaking to learn of Participant's shuttering. They believed in and fought for genuine artistry in a business so centered on market considerations. I'm incredibly grateful we had the opportunity to work together on We Grown Now.