Welcome to the weekly watch list show where we count down the best movies to stream right now on Amazon Prime Video.

Now, this week, we're tackling one of the classic movie genres.

I'm talking the coming of age movie.

It was January, and I was getting ready for the coming of age episode of Weekly Watch list.

I didn't know back then, but something told me this would be one video I would never forget.

Now these movies have a lot of common stylistic hallmarks.

Aimless teens on the cusp of adulthood, awkward first sexual encounters, copious amounts of cheesy voice overs.

And every generation of filmmakers will update it for their own time.

Now, as long as teens keep feeling awkward and misunderstood and keep making really embarrassing mistakes.

The Sean was never going out of style.

Check out the best coming of age movies to stream right now on Prime video E Coming in at number one, It's Bo Burnham is painfully well realized.

Directorial debut, eighth grade.

Elsie Fisher plays Kayla and incredibly shy, unremarkable girl navigating her last week of eighth grade.

By day, Kayla tries to make it through her classes, struggles to make friends.

By the way, I like your shirt a lot like so cool.

I have a shirt, too on crushes on a cute boy in her school.

She would never actually talk.

Thio.

Mhm.

Good job.

Second beat at home.

Kayla lives with her dad.

I think you're so cool.

I think he was.

So I'm gonna stop.

E could say one thing.

I say one thing please and post motivational videos to her YouTube channel with helpful advice like Be yourself and have confidence basically, you know, like be yourself and don't care about, like, whatever what other people think about you and just like, you know, ignore them if they're being mean to you about it, and everything will work out if you're just being yourself.

No, I don't want to give too much away about the plot, but this movie is about the eighth grade.

That's less about what happens and more about how dramatic it all feels.

We watch Kayla in a state of terror when approaching routine social situations to moments of transcendence when she's surfing the Graham alone in her room.

But for the most part, eighth grade is just one giant cringe fest in the best possible way.

Hey, I wrote you that letter, thanking you for inviting me to your birthday party, and you didn't write back or anything.

I didn't even get a d m on like instagram or whatever.

And you know what?

You're always mean to me.

And I'm always nice to you.

And being mean isn't nice.

And when someone does something nice to you, you're supposed to be nice back and you're always mean to me.

And I know I'm like a good person because I'm always nice to you and you're just And also that card game I got you is like a really fun version of Go fish or whatever, and you'd actually know if you played it instead of trying to be cool all the time.

I don't It's like dumb or whatever, but you know, it's dumb in a way that's fun to play when it's raining outside.

And you know that if you stop trying to be cool all the time, it Oh my God, help me.

Thanks.

Now, if there's one thing I do object to, and I think his age inappropriate.

Eighth graders shouldn't BE making YouTube videos.

Leave that to the 20 something year old deadbeats that really need the ad revenue.

Okay, coming in at number to check out the visually striking Amazon original seller in the spades.

Oh, they make the new kids take our photos because they don't take us seriously.

That's a mistake the whole world makes.

They never take the girl seriously.

So it's like this five factions when the underground life of the prestigious Halt World Boarding School lovely Simone plays Cela, the head of the school's most powerful faction, the spades, both charming and callous.

Sela walks the fine line between being feared and loved, often cutting loose whoever she deems a threat to her power.

So I was always going on about how nobody rats.

But what's the difference between a snitch and a girl who sets up her friend to take the fall in front of the heads?

Things take a turn when sell it chooses a new protege slash successor, Paloma is the film depicts the mutually destructive power struggles of high school social cliques.

This one is basically a mobster movie set in high school, where the hot popular kids or the mob bosses who control everything and demand undying loyalty from their friends or they'll be disappeared forever.

So, actually, I guess it's exactly like high school.

If you ever needed a reminder that teen girls are powerful and terrifying, look no further.

What do you think makes what we do possible trusting people to keep their mouth shut, Trusting people toe love us toe?

Want us to succeed?

Please.

It's better to put the fear of God in their souls.

Paloma.

Better toe.

Have them fear your goddamn sneakers walking towards them on the concrete than to let them think that their actions don't have consequences.

Thistle is what it means to have power.

This is what you have to do to keep it.

But if I had to point out one flaw and sell those actions as a crime boss, it's to stop going out of your way to create incriminating evidence against yourself.

I mean, at least help Aloma to stop taking pictures of everything.

Jesus coming in at number three, check out Jeff Nichols in Mississippi Delta movie mud available to rent or buy.

This one's kind of like a modern take on Huckleberry Finn.

We follow Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland as Ellison neck bone to adventurous Arkansas boys who find a boat stuck in a tree in the middle of an uninhabited island on the Mississippi River.

They soon discover that the boat is occupied by a charming drifter named Mud, played by Matthew McConaughey.

Right now, my girlfriend, Jennifer she hot, beautiful bullshit.

Prettiest girl I've ever seen.

Hands down, blonde hair, long legs.

Okay, She's like a dream.

You gonna wake up?

She got these bears tattooed on her hands here.

Not bad.

Good luck, Bears.

As it turns out, Mud is the one in criminal who killed a man for harming his longtime on and off again love interest Juniper, and is now in hiding from both the police and the people seeking revenge.

As Ellis's parents marriage deteriorates, Ellis has drawn deeper and deeper in the muds fantastical story of true love, and the boys strike a deal with mud to fix up the boat and helped him steal parts from all over town in exchange for his pistol kind of 45.

I get this boat floating first.

All right now, I've been a Matthew McConnell head.

The guy could make any random life advice sound really sleazy and languid and cool.

He's bombing.

Let's come on.

I ain't no bomb.

I got money, Boy, you can call me a hobo.

The hobo work for his living.

You call me homeless because, well, that's true for now.

But you call me Obama again.

I'm gonna teach you something about respect your daddy never did.

His role is Mud reminded me of a wiser, more fleshed out version of his character, Wooderson from Days and Confused.

There's also some great examples of one of my favorite coming of age tropes, which is characters talking, impure metaphor that's clearly been reverse engineered to apply to the situation at hand.

This river brings a lot of trash down.

Some of that trash is worth a lot of money.

Some of it's not.

You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

You know the difference.

Even though the setting and story arc are pretty original, this movie just feels like a classic coming of age movie e mean, if you didn't grow up stealing scrap metal getting into fights on river boating with your buddy neck bone.

Did you even come of age bruh coming in at number four?

It's an all time classic.

1989 High school black comedy Heathers.

Dear Diary.

Heather told me she teaches people really life.

She said.

Really, Life sucks.

Losers dry.

If you wanna fuck with the Eagles, you have to learn to fly.

Winona Ryder plays Veronica Sawyer, the only girl not named Heather in her clique of evil popular girls at the top of her school.

Social pyramid.

Heather's What is your damage?

Heather?

Don't blame me.

Blame Heather.

She told me to haul your ass into the CAF pronto.

Veronica still has fondness for her previous life with her nerdy friends, which in the eighties met anyone with glasses and becomes more and more disgusted with the Heathers.

Heather, why can't you just be a friend?

Why are used to Jamaica bitch?

Because I can be.

When she meets New kids slash psychotic Bad boy J.

D.

Played by Christian Slater, the to go on a killing spree to take out the most abusive members of their high school class, covering it up with a series of poetic suicide notes.

To me, those suicide is the natural answer to the myriad of problems life has given me.

That's good.

But Heather would never use the word mirriad.

As the body count racks up, Veronica begins having second thoughts about her.

New boo has to stop him before he blows up the school.

You think just because you started this thing, you can end it?

I'll kill you.

I'll fucking kill you, I swear to God.

How do I turn off the goddamn bomb, asshole?

You!

This film is kind of a dark satire of the feel good John Hughes movies that dominated the coming of a genre.

Dowling up the tropes to 11 and depicting teen social lives is a matter of life or death.

E just killed my best friend on your worst enemy.

Same different.

This movie still hits a lot of the same classic teen movie Beats fighting with your friends, breaking up with your boyfriend, learning how to be a good person, but with a lot more murder.

E prayed for the death of Heather Chandler many times I felt bad every time I did it, but I kept doing it anyway.

Now I know you understood everything.

Praise Jesus.

Hallelujah.

Hi.

I'm sorry.

Technically, I did not kill Heather Chandler.

But, hey, who am I trying to kid, right?

I just want my high school to be a nice place.

Amen.

Does that sound bitchy?

Coming in at number five.

We've got Debra Granik.

2018.

Survivalist drama.

Leave no trace.

It's the woman.

Mm.

Uh, leave no trace.

Follows Thomason Mackenzie as Tom.

13 year old girl living off the grid with her father in the middle of a forest park near Portland, Oregon.

Ben Foster plays her dad will in Iraq war vet with PTSD who could no longer live in society but educates Tom and survival techniques And how to hide better.

Better you're sucks.

What?

Your socks burned you.

You got money?

Him up.

Ankles were down Shanghai shadow shape.

Yeah, it's better.

Come on.

I'm hungry.

Tom loves her simple, unencumbered life in the woods until the two were discovered squatting on public lands and forced out of their camp slash home.

What follows is a really unique coming of age story about a girl brought up in the wilderness learning to adapt to modern society and open up to others.

Cool, huh?

You put your hand over it.

You can feel the warmth of high.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Do you want to do?

Yeah.

A person can withstand 500 stinks.

Close your eyes.

Help it.

Yeah.

So you don't need to be scared.

Honestly, my favorite part is the early scenes that I'm camping out in the forest.

The gentle rhythm and nature imagery in the first section are so good that it makes the human world feel incredibly strange and alienating by comparison.

Kind of makes me want to pack up and move out of l.

A.

But I'd probably just end up into the wilding myself.

And there you have it.

Five of the best coming of age movies to stream right now in prime video.

Let me know what genre you want me to tackle next in the comments.

Or you could just let me know how much of an idiot I am for not including your favorite coming of age.

Movie.

E could take it until next time.

Don't blink.

Always be streaming.