Just watched American Honey and it is surprisingly good, I expected less due to seeming lukewarm initial reception by critics. It also surprises by not ending up quite as depressing as I thought it would be after seeing the trailer and the start of the movie. There are some dark moments, but also light ones, and to me it at least fealt like it didn't end up predicting a neverending vicious cycle of poverty. Actually maybe this is the theme of Andrea Arnold's movies - that the negative cycles can be broken. She's really becoming one of my favourite directors besides Jim Jarmusch and Kelly Reichardt.