CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Duane Byrge - Hollywood Reporter

Ruthe Stein - SF Chronicle

Janice Page - Boston Globe

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide Online

Ann Hornaday - Washington Post

Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

Robert K. Elder - Chicago Tribune

Rick Groen - Globe & Mail

Jami Bernard - NY Daily News

Lou Lumenick - NY Post

Peter Debruge - Premiere Magazine

A.O. Scott - NY Times

Sean Axmaker - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Michael Atkinson - Village Voice

DUELING CRITICS

"It cuts straight to the core of school experience and does not reek of the teen angst/ennui of many independent films today. Filmmaker Jacob Aaron Estes has crafted a realistic and rich portrait of the moral dilemmas that adolescents experience"

- Duane Byrge

"As obvious in many ways as its title...A fairly ordinary, machine-shopped Sundance résumé indie, seemingly balanced somewhere between half-realized ambition and inexperience"

- Michael Atkinson