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Wang’s reserved, undemonstrative performance is what sets the film’s non-sucrose tone: he only really smiles in a goofy video of his much younger self. It’s a cool, downbeat and satisfying piece of work.

You can add Sean Wang’s Dìdi to the short list of films that fine-tune the personal into the universal, and turn a magic-mirror reflection of its creator into a shared wavelength.

Wang’s film is extremely universal because it is extremely specific.

[T]hanks to his [Wang's] aesthetic, attention to detail, and immigrant lens that helps give the familiar story a fresh new perspective... Dìdi is more than just a coming-of-age movie. It’s an embarrassingly honest portrait of the Bay Area American-born Chinese Millennial.

It’s a simultaneously painful, powerful, and poignant coming-of-age story filtered through the lens of the immigrant experience at the end of the hyper specific cultural moment in time that was the end of the first decade of the 2000s. Compelling performances by Izaac Wang, Shirley Chen, and Joan Chen really elevate this flick from a flip-phone-washed skateboard trip down memory lane to a story about identity.

But what really sets “Dìdi” apart from a run-of-the-mill teen drama is the heart. There is just so much love and care that is put into this script and the performances that the audience can’t help but feel each emotion as if you’re a member of this family. It’s, at once, universal and very specific.

“Didi” is a conventionally shot film, save for a few surreal swings that make you wish Wang pushed the visual envelope. It’s also a work that lives and dies on the performances by Wang and Chen... Wang and Chen are up to the task, trading aching barbs with healing words. They’re enough to give this film a hint of sweetness and warmth, even when Wang is working too hard to conjure crowd-pleasing tears.

Dìdi, Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical portrait of an Asian American boy in 2008 that is easily one of the best, most seamless films I’ve seen on the experience of growing up online.

Both the filmmaker and his cast are breakouts to watch in this Sundance standout, a heartfelt and hilarious entry in the coming-of-age canon that’s primed to find kindred souls in a wider audience.

The film is a very solid entry in the annals of coming-of-age films, reminiscent of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade in both its affection for its young characters and its willingness to meet them on their own terms. But its real secret weapon turns out to be the equal empathy it extends toward Chungsing, whose own journey emerges as a moving complement to her son’s.

“Dìdi” resembles the often-exasperating boy it has been following for 90-some minutes: charming, rough around the edges, and brimming with potential.