This article appeared in the April 4, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Familiar Touch (Sarah Friedland, 2024)Nursing homes occupy a peculiar place in our collective imagination. And all this wellness propaganda, and the landscaping, it’s just there to obscure the miserable fact that people die! Barrie’s age-defying Lost Boy (or, rather, an elderly woman awash in memories of playing the role as a stagestruck teenager). When Ruth asks for a menu in the dining room, she is informed, not unkindly, that it doesn’t work like that.