A slick, appealing blend of summertime coming of ager and cautionary crime thriller.

Although it registers friendships and fallings-out, it does not make them into soapy storylines. It prefers, equally refreshingly, to dig deep into the many qualities that must combine to make a single performer, and then how they must coalesce into one team.

Choked is not a very good film, but it’s a perfectly watchable and engrossing peek into a culture, its classes and its politics — governmental and sexual.

Narrated quite drolly by comedian John Hodgman, Class Action Park is very funny in its dark way.

A glorious summation of all the talent and personality that went into the work, offering more time with some of the best moviemaking stories around.

Thanks to genuine performances and a heartbreakingly true story as inspiration, this is a moving film that avoids sentimentality or total predictability.