- Studio: Weinstein Company, The
- Release Date: Jun 3, 2011
- Summary: Meet Oliver Tate, a precocious 15-year-old whose worldview is exceedingly clever but largely delusion. He has two big ambitions: to save his parents' marriage and to lose his virginity before his next birthday. (The Weinstein Company)
- Director: Richard Ayoade
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 37
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Mixed: 3 out of 37
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Negative: 1 out of 37
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100One of the most irresistible films of the year so far.
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80There are moments when this funny, self-consciously quirky film feels a bit like a Welsh "Napoleon Dynamite."
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60Though Submarine isn't a dull head-movie, amid the bells and whistles, Roberts seems less its star than its cameraman.
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25The movie knocks itself unconscious trying to be offbeat, but instead of cinematic heart, the director self-indulges in cinematic art, drowning the whole thing in freeze frames, slow-motion and color-coding, owing everything he knows to the worst of Jean-Luc Godard and Wes Anderson.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 15
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Mixed: 0 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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10Fantastic in every way.
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