Igby Goes Down

Gets weirder and meaner and darker and sadder as it progresses, which is amazing since it simultaneously remains funny and horrifying right up to the end.Read Full Review »

Igby Goes Down got a reaction from me: I think it's the movie of the year. I squirmed, I laughed a lot.Read Full Review »

Wickedly funny, jarringly transgressive, obdurately unpigeonholeable and startlingly moving.Read Full Review »

A dead-on sense of how rich kids live and talk today, a sense of the melancholy of a dysfunctional family, and some great dark laughs.Read Full Review »

Smart and novelistic and spiked with more than a bit of The Catcher in the Rye, Steers' movie is a prickly coming-of-age tale in which everybody -- but especially Culkin -- shines.Read Full Review »

Across the board, the performances testify, often hilariously, to the pain these characters feel and inflict but are incapable of expressing.Read Full Review »

An inspired example of the story in which the adolescent hero discovers that the world sucks, people are phonies, and sex is a consolation. Because the genre is well established, what makes the movie fresh is smart writing, skewed characters, and the title performance by Kieran Culkin.Read Full Review »

Although Igby has its share of glitches and tonal inconsistencies, it packs an emotional wallop similar to that of another cultural golden oldie as beloved in its way as "The Catcher in the Rye": "The Graduate."Read Full Review »

Lightweight, although it exhibits enough heft for us to develop an emotional connection with the main character. I have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture, and, whatever flaws Igby Goes Down may possess, it is undeniably that.Read Full Review »

Witty and intelligently made. It's also utterly baffling.Read Full Review »