“The Sweet East,” a shape-shifting satire about modern American subcultures, is a curious — occasionally delightful — object. Its doe-eyed leading lady, Lillian (Talia Ryder), is like the ...

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” 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...