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Alynda Wheat, People: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...feels both authentically specific and powerfully universal." (Read the full review...) 112 words, 01/05/12 Mary Pols, Time: OUTSTANDING "The year's best coming-of-age film.... Dee Rees' voice is already powerful and gracefully confident... Actress Adepero Oduye is wonderful, the movie inspiring." (Read the full review...) 1,161 words, 12/28/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...at once raw and dreamlike, specific to a particular, personal rite of passage yet relatable in its message of being true to oneself.... inspiring..." (Read the full review...) 434 words, 01/05/12 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...writer-director Dee Rees demonstrates, with simplicity and verve, that there's no substitute for authenticity." (Read the full review...) 199 words, 01/06/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "This vibrantly alive debut feature from Dee Rees, drawn from her own life, introduces an original voice.... Adepero Oduye is unforgettable. A star is born." (Read the full review...) 133 words, 01/06/12 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has a fresh and distinctly urban take, anchored by an affable lead performance.... Director Dee Rees tackles the subject with honesty and understanding." (Read the full review...) 341 words, 12/30/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...what we're seeing here is the emergence of a promising writer-director, an actor and a cinematographer who are all exciting, and have cared to make a film that seeks helpful truths." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 01/06/12 James Rocchi, MSN Movies: EXCELLENT (cg) "...somehow moves above and beyond the mere bones and sinew of the essential plotline to be fully fleshed as something new and different." (Read the full review...) 756 words, 12/20/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...an African-American variation of a familiar story. What lifts it above a majority of coming-out movies is its specificity, not only about its characters but also about its location." (Read the full review...) 706 words, 12/28/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "There have only been a few movies since the late-'80s heyday of from-the-gut indies that have felt like 'Pariah'... you're instantly drawn in to its feelings and sense of place." (Read the full review...) 315 words, 12/30/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a stinging street-smart story of an African American teen's struggle to come of age and come out... Dee Rees gives 'Pariah' a surprising and empowering maturity." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 12/28/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has a rough spot or two, but it's an exciting journey of discovery -- both for the audience and for a feisty heroine determined to learn how to be true to herself." (Read the full review...) 347 words, 12/28/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The payoffs here begin and end with Adepero Oduye... as we see this character confront her obstacles with bravery, grace and resolve, 'Pariah' exhibits many of the same traits..." (Read the full review...) 490 words, 01/06/12 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Gripping and honest, a first-rate debut by writer-director Dee Rees." (Read the full review...) 303 words, 02/17/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...what we're seeing here is the emergence of a promising writer-director, an actor and a cinematographer who are all exciting, and have cared to make a film that seeks helpful truths." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 01/06/12 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...funny, moving, nuanced, and impeccably acted.... a profoundly specific film centering on universal themes..." (Read the full review...) 599 words, 12/28/11 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Dee Rees' script, peppered with colourful hip-hop argot, is smart and economical, with well-drawn characters, dialogue and situations that echo with authenticity." (Read the full review...) 456 words, 01/13/12 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...develops into a nicely grounded coming-of-age tale - yes, with a lesbian theme." (Read the full review...) 605 words, 01/13/12 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...has three things going for it: great performances, an exhilarating soundtrack of girl-powered hip-hop, metal and soul, and director Dee Rees's savvy script." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 01/12/12
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...invigoratingly fresh... both tough and tender, vivid and grim, drenched in poetry and music and pain and discovery. In other words, 'Pariah' feels a lot like life..." (Read the full review...) 582 words, 01/06/12 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...exhilarating... feels like cinema verite.... Rees tells Alike's story in vignettes that are sometimes slapstick, sometimes heartbreaking, always tender." (Read the full review...) 421 words, 01/13/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...the film's ingredients aren't the freshest. Black, gay, prejudice, disapproving family, coming out, coming of age, Brooklyn -- it's like indie-film bingo." (Read the full review...) 354 words, 01/20/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "Oduye's performance, like Rees' writing and direction, is grounded in genuine feeling, with hardly a false note.... it's thrilling to watch Oduye capture the transition into adulthood..." (Read the full review...) 566 words, 01/13/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...rare.... a movie about the grunt work of identity politics and, at the movies, it's new. This is a 17-year-old girl trying to figure out what kind of black woman and lesbian to be." (Read the full review...) 882 words, 01/06/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the acting is all easy and natural. The score is moody and often beautiful. And the message - that prejudice exists in every community - is one worth listening to." (Read the full review...) 421 words, 12/28/11 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...benefits from solid performances among its young cast... and most of all from Rees' careful screenplay, which dances that shifting line between fear and emergent hope." (Read the full review...) 386 words, 12/28/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the joy of 'Pariah' is watching both Alike's tentative, heartfelt emergence as an independent woman, and Oduye's performance, understated yet deeply moving." (Read the full review...) 440 words, 01/06/12 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the sort of delicate little movie that rescues the Sundance Film Festival from its occasional excesses and misfires." (Read the full review...) 300 words, 01/13/12 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a small film about a big subject: the struggle to be who you are, not who others would like you to be." (Read the full review...) 329 words, 01/20/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "You don't have to be black or lesbian or even know someone who's gay to appreciate 'Pariah'; you just have to have gone through or be going through the process of growing up." (Read the full review...) 311 words, 01/20/12
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...funny, moving, nuanced, and impeccably acted.... a profoundly specific film centering on universal themes..." (Read the full review...) 599 words, 12/28/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Rees has an intimate feel for setting... Her characters, convincingly played, avoid stereotype, with the exception of mom, the film's ultimate pariah." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 01/05/12 Scott Tobias, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...sensitively captures the added difficulties of a teenager pursuing love for the first time while having to keep that pursuit a secret." (Read the full review...) 384 words, 12/29/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "...uncommonly aware of just how heartbreakingly important the trappings of fashion, of music choices, of hobbies are when you're young..." (Read the full review...) 757 words, 12/28/11 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...two nuance-sucking articulations of how tough it still is to be gay -- not to mention gay and nonwhite -- in America today." (Read the full review...) 946 words, 03/24/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...has three things going for it: great performances, an exhilarating soundtrack of girl-powered hip-hop, metal and soul, and director Dee Rees's savvy script." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 01/12/12 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: EXCELLENT (cg) "Fortunately, Rees presents more rounded characters than you find in the urban dramas of Tyler Perry or the more manipulative movies of Spike Lee." (Read the full review...) 240 words, 01/12/12 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: OUTSTANDING (cg) "For all the tough places it goes, 'Pariah' is a lovely film about a young woman learning how to blossom into her own loveliness." (Read the full review...) 268 words, 02/01/12
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a remarkable debut feature.... genuinely original.... The originality lies in the details, and the dramatic energy that sustains almost every scene." (Read the full review...) 320 words, 01/06/12 Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...an African-American variation of a familiar story. What lifts it above a majority of coming-out movies is its specificity, not only about its characters but also about its location." (Read the full review...) 706 words, 12/28/11 Ella Taylor, NPR: OUTSTANDING "...a vital first feature... a tender, sporadically goofy, yet candid examination of emergent identity.... the finest coming-of-age movie I've seen in years..." (Read the full review...) 597 words, 12/29/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a stinging street-smart story of an African American teen's struggle to come of age and come out... Dee Rees gives 'Pariah' a surprising and empowering maturity." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 12/28/11
Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "Vivid photography, true-to-life moments and a wonderful lead performance compensate for some first-timer missteps in debutante writer-director Dee Rees' 'Pariah'..." (Read the full review...) 460 words, 01/21/11 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "Adepero Oduye captures the spirit of an adolescent with no doubt about what she wants but a deep ambivalence about how to pursue it." (Read the full review...) 513 words, 01/21/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a stinging street-smart story of an African American teen's struggle to come of age and come out... Dee Rees gives 'Pariah' a surprising and empowering maturity." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 12/28/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT (cg) "...premiered at the 2011 Sundance Fest (in the World Competition series), winning the Jury's Best Cinematography Award.... Spike Lee is one of the film's executive producers." (Read the full review...) 844 words, 02/02/11 Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...an African-American variation of a familiar story. What lifts it above a majority of coming-out movies is its specificity, not only about its characters but also about its location." (Read the full review...) 706 words, 12/28/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a remarkable debut feature.... genuinely original.... The originality lies in the details, and the dramatic energy that sustains almost every scene." (Read the full review...) 320 words, 01/06/12
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