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Christy Lemire, Associated Press: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Not a single moment rings false... writer/director David Robert Mitchell has taken a genre that's overly familiar -- the all-night teen dramedy -- and makes it feel refreshing and new." (Read the full review...) 601 words, 07/21/11 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "David Robert Mitchell has an ear for the tentativeness of adolescence... Yet there's a downside to making a movie that's all slivers, anecdotes, and random wispy encounters." (Read the full review...) 208 words, 07/22/11 James Rocchi, MSN Movies: OUTSTANDING (cg) "David Robert Mitchell gets how teen life is made of rumors and lies and secrets and hopes -- out of myths.... a mix of a poem and a party, as brief and beautiful as the right kind of summer night." (Read the full review...) 792 words, 07/19/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "What director David Robert Mitchell gets splendidly right in this quiet, observant film, is the unsteady mixture of sophistication and naïveté that is central to the modern American teenage way of being in the world." (Read the full review...) 801 words, 07/22/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "...novice cast makes a valiant, though decidedly uneven, effort to bring something fresh... the pacing drags in a way a summer night never should." (Read the full review...) 128 words, 07/22/11 Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a coming-of-age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.... a significant screen debut not only for the writer-director David Robert Mitchell but also his youthful cast." (Read the full review...) 288 words, 07/29/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "The deserving winner of the ensemble-acting award at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival..." (Read the full review...) 243 words, 07/22/11 Logan Hill, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD "...an Altman-esque micro-indie ensemble drama about adolescents in suburban Michigan... a number of precisely drawn moments capture a confused teenage tenderness we rarely see on film." (Read the full review...) 394 words, 07/22/11 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...earnest, ethereal.... this pre-cell-phone period piece -- hazily innocent even as it's sketching out the odder, darker corners of adolescent desire -- gets a lot right." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 07/20/11
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an old-fashioned, summer's-over tale of hormones.... it understands the psychic dominion of teenage lust." (Read the full review...) 698 words, 09/02/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...an indie movie-lover's dream, one of those rare instances where a lack of budget and experience is trumped by heartfelt vision, natural talent and amateur enthusiasm." (Read the full review...) 433 words, 08/05/11
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...earnest, ethereal.... this pre-cell-phone period piece -- hazily innocent even as it's sketching out the odder, darker corners of adolescent desire -- gets a lot right." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 07/20/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...impressive if derivative... the acting is naturalistic to the point of affectlessness. The characters' charms are subdued but seductive, and by the end 'Myth' is not just touching but profound." (Read the full review...) 158 words, 09/01/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a coming-of-age movie that evokes the teenage experience through minor, incisive observation, then leaves without making anything so conspicuous as a statement." (Read the full review...) 411 words, 07/21/11 Michelle Orange, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a modest, untroubled elegy for the passages of middle-American youth... it looks more like your teenage world than such films generally allow, and it's not pretty. It's beautiful." (Read the full review...) 781 words, 07/21/11 Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "A rumination on the alternately torturous and joyous paradoxes of teenagehood... likeably recognizes that all of the adolescent epiphanies worth rendering in film must be represented non-verbally." (Read the full review...) 1,089 words, 07/17/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "What director David Robert Mitchell gets splendidly right in this quiet, observant film, is the unsteady mixture of sophistication and naïveté that is central to the modern American teenage way of being in the world." (Read the full review...) 801 words, 07/22/11 Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a coming-of-age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.... a significant screen debut not only for the writer-director David Robert Mitchell but also his youthful cast." (Read the full review...) 288 words, 07/29/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...exquisite... a one-of-a-kind teen movie... a sympathetic but detached perspective that suggests Scott Fitzgerald by way of Truffaut." (Read the full review...) 738 words, 07/22/11
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: FAIR "Well-intentioned but derivative and only intermittently engaging... hits at least as many false notes as true ones..." (Read the full review...) 503 words, 05/10/10 Andrew Wallenstein, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "Director David Rober Mitchell manages to plant a flag on this well-trodden territory by steering more toward drama than comedy... he scores points on both fronts." (Read the full review...) 622 words, 10/15/10 Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a coming-of-age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.... a significant screen debut not only for the writer-director David Robert Mitchell but also his youthful cast." (Read the full review...) 288 words, 07/29/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "What director David Robert Mitchell gets splendidly right in this quiet, observant film, is the unsteady mixture of sophistication and naïveté that is central to the modern American teenage way of being in the world." (Read the full review...) 801 words, 07/22/11
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