Horny high schooler Alice (Natalia Dyer) is in the process of discovering masturbation, but her sex-demonizing Catholic school is determined to shame her for it. That more or less describes the ...

Yes, God, Yes, which Maine both wrote and directed, stars Stranger Things breakout Natalia Dyer as Alice, a midwest teen who “discovers masturbation and is overwhelmed with guilt” following a racy AOL ...

Rated R. At the Coolidge Corner Virtual Cinema. A coming-of-age comedy about religion, young women and sex, “Yes, God, Yes” doesn’t get as much mileage out of its subjects as it should, although that ...

Karen Maine, the co-writer of Gillian Robespierre’s effervescent abortion comedy “Obvious Child,” mines her own awkward teenage experiences for her directorial debut, “Yes, God, Yes.” Anyone who has ...

I remember so little about my own Catholic high school junior-year retreat, except that the religious discussions didn’t have a chance up against the severity of everyone’s crushes. That’s my memory ...

Over the past few decades, most coming-of-age films have explored sexuality from the male point of view, but Natalia Dyer’s latest coming-of-age film, Yes, God, Yes, provides an all-too-rare look at ...

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Growing up Irish Catholic there are a lot of things you don’t talk about. As a pizza-faced pubescent who spent most of his time inside and would rather be reading a book, awkward mutterings were my ...

Karen Maine, the co-writer of Gillian Robespierre’s effervescent abortion comedy “Obvious Child,” mines her own awkward teenage experiences for her directorial debut, “Yes, God, Yes.” Anyone who has ...

I remember so little about my own Catholic high school junior-year retreat, except that the religious discussions didn’t have a chance up against the severity of everyone’s crushes. That’s my memory ...