Embracing the adult bildungsroman

Because I really don't like movies about kids.

The kids in King of Staten Island were appreciably left in the background.

Even as a child, other children in movies always kinda made me uneasy. I’d like to say it was my innate critical palate shining through, even at a young age; that I could see most child actors weren’t that convincing, or that most children’s problems weren’t that vital in the gran…