Kids Like Me — Cynthia Lowen [Tribeca ’26 Review]

Designed to please any movie lover with a heart, Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs’ Kids Like Me follows Oliver Odwazny-Beebe, a passionate indie filmmaker with a murder mystery obsession who is bent on bringing his latest vision to the screen, even if it means corralling everyone from friends, neighbors, and family members, to Tony Shalhoub and the local police. Indeed, the smart and scrappy director is convinced that “people are finally gonna recognize my artistic talents through the delightfully macabre world of murder.” Never mind that Odwazny-Beebe is only 12 years old, and with a rare genetic condition that requires him to be tethered to numerous life-saving (and quality of life-preserving) medical gadgets around the clock. His creative savant imagination seems to be fully operating at warp speed.

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