Viewing "November Criminals" in January

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  Picture if you will that you're going about your day as if it were any other when you suddenly get word that a good friend of yours has been violently killed, there's no motive, there are no leads and everyone around you is quick to make assumptions and move on, except you. Would you give in, or would you search for answers?

Addison Schacht (Ansel Elgort) finds himself in such a position when only after six months of losing his mother his friend Kevin (Jared Kemp) is shot to death while working at his job at the coffee shop. When hearing the news, he returns to find that rumors of gang violence as a motive are already circulating which doesn't sit well with him. With no success at getting the school or the police to listen to him, Addison decides to take matters into his own hands, and with some reluctant help from his friend/girlfriend Phoebe (Chloe Grace Moretz), he starts to find pieces linking Kevin to the dark underbelly of Washington D.C. which may in turn put them both in danger.

This film was one of those that you just became drawn into the story. The characters of Addison and Phoebe were complex in the way of the broad range of emotions and how they interacted with one another bringing a sense of realism to real-life relationships and the plot was well thought out so as not to be predictable in where it would take you next. Such a plot is worthy of five G.M.Stars for its stellar performance.

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