It's without posturing or phony outrage, and offers instead something far more affecting: a deep sense of melancholy. This is the way it is, it says, and not much can be done about it.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Manohla Dargis
If the cast is distractingly pretty, the performances are also quite fine and, in the case of Gordon-Levitt, exceptional.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Shows more hopelessness than optimism but is never less than honest.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Laura Sinagra
Often the script (co-written by Michael Bacall, who plays sardonic bipolar rich kid Chad) rings clear with mouths-of-babes declamations that all pained kids spew before downing adulthood's suck-it-up Kool-Aid.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
There's something already exhausted, however, in the intrusively gauzy, wobbly, blurry, zoomy digital-video look of the piece.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
If the movie is not original, at least it's a showcase for the actors and writers. It does not speak as well, alas, for director Jordan Melamed and his cinematographer, Nick Hay.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dave Kehr
The camera work is so self-conscious and so intrusive that it consistently overrides our interest in the characters and their individual dramas.Read Full Review »
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