CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Allison Benedikt - Chicago Tribune

Josh Larsen - Sun Publications

Mike Clark - USA Today

Colin Covert - startribune.com

Chris Hewitt - St. Paul Pioneer Press

Ellen A. Kim - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Rick Groen - Globe & Mail

John Anderson - Newsday

Peter Bernard - Sun-Sentinel.com

Eric Harrison - Houston Chronicle

Melinda Ennis - AccessAtlanta

Randy Cordova - Arizona Republic

Lou Lumenick - NY Post

Glenn Lovell - San Jose Mercury News

Keith Uhlich - Slant Magazine

DUELING CRITICS

"Succeeds because at its core it is about the very different pressures very different young adults face, and the test that insists on judging them as one and the same...A good-looking movie...[it] is actually a philosophical argument against our culture of tests"

- Allison Benedikt

"Ultimately a triumph of Aryan fascism, part of an ongoing agenda to deaden impressionable souls with supposed life truths while codifying and containing our dreams...An MTV film that extreme right-wing moralists can be proud of"

- Keith Uhlich