Fresh (1994) is a crime drama movie that follows a 12-year-old boy whose life is surrounded by drugs and poverty. However, when he realizes that his sister has struck up an affair with a drug dealer, ...

Our Flick of the Week is “Fresh,” another boy-in-the-hood movie that, like so many other fine films about minorities growing up with violence, gains its power from actually being there. In this case, ...

The raw contemporary urban world of drug dealers, ruined childhoods and sudden death we see in the movie “Fresh” is so cold-blooded and scary, yet presented with such deceptive casualness and ...