‘If I Go Will They Miss Me’ Review: Talent-to-Watch Walter Thompson-Hernández Weaves a Lyrical Portrait of a Boy on the Brink of Flight

Even the most inspirational films about growing up in the inner-city have a tendency to look down on their subjects, portraying them as characters to be rescued or redeemed. But in Walter Thompson-Hernández’s one-of-a-kind Sundance discovery “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” the filmmaker — and his largely untrained (and by extension authentic) ensemble […]