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"[Beans] is the first fictional film directed by the documentarian Tracey Deer, and she brings a good eye for which characters might make a compelling story. Deer emphasizes the styles of the period—the high ponytails and neon windbreakers opposite police uniforms. But her heroes aren't fighters; they are the children and mothers who must navigate empty grocery shelves and taunting mobs. In choosing her protagonists as she has, Deer has made a canny portrait of Mohawk domestic life during a modern conflict. The difference between this and other homefront movies is that usually war is depicted as happening far away. Here, Beans has to make sense of a fight where her home is the battlefield, too."
-- Teo Bugbee

Source:
Bugbee, Teo. "'Beans' review: Growing up fast in the '90s." Review of Beans. New York Times, November 4, 2021.