- 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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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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SeanQ4
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SeanS.2
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