For American-made honey, the "organic" boast, experts say, is highly suspect. Beekeepers may be doing their part, but honeybees have a foraging range of several miles, exposing them to pesticides ...

Yet when you see “American Honey,” you may feel that teenage rebellion, for the first time, has gone about as far as it can go — that it’s reached a point where it’s consuming itself.

Not long into “American Honey,” Andrea Arnold’s wild, rambling and astonishingly beautiful fourth feature, you start to notice the insects. A bumblebee has a close brush with death.

“American Honey” is filled with memorable set pieces, from the upper-middle-class Christian woman who invites Jake and Star into her home and berates them because they haven’t found God ...