About halfway through Trey Edward Shults’s Waves, high school senior Tyler Williams (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) and his stern father, Ronald (Sterling K. Brown), have a discomfiting discussion.

“Waves,” the third film from Trey Edward Shults, is more evidence of the 30-year-old director’s versatility, as it explodes onto the screen with authentic vibrations of ordinary life.Within ...

“Waves” writer/director Trey Edward Shults (center) with cast members Kelvin Harrison Jr.(l-r), Alexa Demie, , Taylor Russell and Sterling K. Brown at the Telluride Film Festival 2019 on ...

TREY EDWARD SHULTS: Oh man, so much. Initially, he was just a crazy talented actor, and then it was just meeting him and connecting as human beings, and then being blown away working with him, how ...

At 135 minutes, Waves is also easily the longest of Trey Edward Shults’s films to date, but he finds plenty of places to go within this film to justify that runtime.

Let no one fault Trey Edward Shults for giving less than 110%. His third feature, Waves , confers the impression of a rising independent harnessing the confidence of youth to take his shot at a ...

As you can tell from my review of "Waves" a few weeks ago, I had an emotional two hours in the theater. The film, from A24 Films, centers on an upper-middle-class African-American family in ...

It took writer/director Trey Edward Shults many years to settle on the story of Waves—a tale of family tension, poor decisions and tragic connection— but when it came, it was personally ...

Trey Edward Shults: Well, it happened very organically. I think It Comes at Night happened for a reason, and a huge part of that was meeting Kel. We met and loved each other and wanted to make ...

“Waves,” the third film from Trey Edward Shults, is more evidence of the 30-year-old director’s versatility, as it explodes onto the screen with authentic vibrations of ordinary life.