- Studio: IFC Films
- Release Date: Mar 7, 2008
- Starring: Daniel Liu, Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen
- Summary:
- Director: Gus Van Sant
- Genre(s): Drama, Sport, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 27
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Mixed: 4 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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Appropriately structured like a ride on skateboard: It swoops back and forth in time, hovers in midair, twists back on itself over and over again, then rolls into silence.
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100The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor.
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80In Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant enters the world of high school kids just as he did in "Elephant," achieving this time a much sharper, more focused portrait of how these rapidly maturing young people act, think, speak and behave.
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60The chief triumph here, it seems to me though, is one of style over substance. The disaffected kids who shuffle through its universe have nothing to say, nothing to tell us. I’m not sure the movie has a whole lot more.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 33
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Mixed: 4 out of 33
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Negative: 13 out of 33
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Z.Wyatt10This was just spectacular film-making. Intimate, claustrophobic. Pure tone throughout.
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JamieJ.8Artful and inspiring. DEFINITELY not for the impatient. This movie is captivating in it's own way and has a pleasant simplicity to it.
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JoshB.4
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