Thumbsucker

Quiet, quirky gem.Read Full Review »

Mr. Pucci, emerging slowly from behind a stray lock of brown hair, plays Justin's ambiguous transformation with deft understatement. And Mike Mills, who wrote and directed, keeps the film from slipping either into melodrama or facile satire, the two traps into which this genre is most apt to fall.Read Full Review »

Thumbsucker is true to its nature, and that makes Justin's eventual transformation all the more rewarding.Read Full Review »

Pucci is an actor to watch: He rides this spellbinder without softening the truths that plague the thumbsucker in all of us.Read Full Review »

The movie contains many of the usual ingredients of teenage suburban angst tragicomedies, but writer-director Mike Mills, who began with a novel by Walter Kirn, uses actors who can riff.Read Full Review »

A gently stirring symphony about emotional transition filled with lovely musical passages and softly nuanced performances.Read Full Review »

Endearing and well-acted.Read Full Review »

The movie and its theme of self-acceptance has an honesty, undercut by occasional preciousness, that makes it worth seeing.Read Full Review »

Thumbsucker aims high but swerves too frequently between the engaging and the credibility-defying to be satisfying.Read Full Review »

Pucci proves to be one of the most charismatic male ingenues since Johnny Depp.Read Full Review »