Standing by Yourself Image
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  • Summary: A shattering documentary on the lives of two hostile teenagers in an upstate town who react to their dead-end environment and social ostracism with a frenzied, narcotized downward spiral. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    100
    It is a horrifying and devastating spectacle of life gone dreadfully out of control, yet it is also riveting and hypnotic in such a dramatic sensation that you are left breathless by the sequence of events which will haunt and torture for as long as your memory remains intact.
  2. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    One hopes Koury will return to this interesting project to flush out the bigger story that continues to lurk just below the surface.
  3. 30
    A crystalline curio of dumbshit nihilism shot through with fleeting pathos, Koury's home movie often evokes "The Decline of Western Civilization Part III."

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