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  • Summary: Max, a laconic teenager, leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona.
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  1. Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    Mar 18, 2013
    90
    The beauty of the footage is undeniable, and the aimlessness never overstays its welcome as the film documents that strange stretch in our lives when nothing seems to matter more than the present moment, suspended in a sort of idle immortality.
  2. Reviewed by: John DeFore
    Mar 11, 2013
    80
    Throughout, the film's subjects convince us they're doing nothing more than being themselves, so much so that a cynical advisor told Sutton he should market his film as a documentary. That label would prepare potential viewers for Pavilion's lack of story, but it would make a lie of the movie's patient, finely drawn loveliness.
  3. Reviewed by: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
    Mar 11, 2013
    75
    Pavilion is an odd thing: a movie that manages to be immersive without being about much of anything.
  4. Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    Feb 26, 2013
    60
    A ravishingly shot slice of teen-ness that eschews narrative altogether in favor of a moody, watchful wistfulness, this mild-mannered debut plays something like "Bestiaire" for contemporary slacker youth.

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