By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Written by Nick Pinkerton, The Sweet East begins in earnest during Lillian’s high school trip to Washington. D.C. The internal drama of the students ...

The Sweet East proves to be an unapologetically scruffy road movie in which a directionless teenager finds herself on a strange odyssey, each new encounter more surreal than the last. Talia Ryder ...

“That transporter doesn’t work. And we don’t have those same lipids that cross into the earwax and into the sweat,” Nguyen explained of East Asians, adding that a dysfunctional ABCC11 gene ...

In Sean Price Williams’s debut film, The Sweet East, he pokes fun at the nation’s ideological bubbles. A scene from The Sweet East. Early in Long Strange Trip, Amir Bar-Lev’s exhaustive four ...

“The Sweet East” is on the road again, this time heading across the pond for a theatrical release via Utopia, which has acquired the drama’s U.K. rights. Marking celebrated cinematographer ...

Part coming-of-age indie, part sweeping fantasy, The Sweet East is a dizzyingly fantastical trip down a very modern rabbit hole into the curiouser and curiouser world of contemporary America.

At age 45, the widely respected lensman is finally getting around to his solo feature directorial debut, “The Sweet East,” pictured above, premiering in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.