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Osgood Perkins is proud of the fact that The Monkey isn’t Longlegs 2.0. The Stephen King adaptation goes hard and macabre for belly laughs. The premise is inherently funny – wind up a toy monkey, people die – and Perkins doubles and triples down on that fact whenever and wherever he can.

For the filmmaker, the key to consistency these days is variety. “What we’ve been able to do with these last two movies – and there’s another one coming out in October that we made during these other ones that Neon is putting out called Keeper – I think the idea is just to keep doing things differently,” Perkins told Daily Dead. “Don’t serve the same sandwich twice.”

During a recent interview with Perkins – which, fittingly, begins and ends with death – he told us about exploring loss, destroying body parts, and the inevitability of, “It is what it is.”

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Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: In honor of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” what is the best coming-of-age movie ever made?

Siddhant Adlakha (@SidizenKane), Birth.Movies.Death.

While it may not fit the western paradigm of a traditional coming of age film (neither a high school setting nor teenage angst or confusion find themselves the focus), “Lion” holds the distinction of being a rare modern movie that gets to the root of key questions of dual identity, questions that will only become more prominent in the age of globalism. It’s the most extreme version of having your feet in two cultures; Saroo Brierley (Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel) finds himself...