See How They Run
2019 · 10m · United States
Directed by Lauren Meyering
Genres: coming-of-age, crime, drama
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
A reckless girl and her ragtag gang spend a night of antics until a home invasion goes wrong and forces her to confront her past.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise reads like every other 'troubled girl + crime gone wrong' indie drama, which is exactly why I'm not picking it—there's nothing here that makes me say 'wait, WHAT?' It's executing a familiar arc competently, but competence isn't subversion.
Meyering situates this squarely in the post-Gus Van Sant coming-of-age tradition, and the control is evident in how she calibrates tonal shifts from antics to violence; the formal rigor is there, even if the thematic material feels well-worn in festival cycles.
The specific choice that matters is how Meyering cuts between the gang's chaotic energy and the sudden stillness of confrontation—that rhythmic pivot alone transforms what could've been rote into something that lands, and it's the kind of editing discipline that signals a filmmaker thinking about *why* each beat breathes.