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Generally favorable reviews- based on 62 Ratings

  • 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)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 37
  2. Negative: 1 out of 37
  1. 100
    One of the most irresistible films of the year so far.
  2. Reviewed by: Kerry Lengel
    Jun 9, 2011
    80
    There are moments when this funny, self-consciously quirky film feels a bit like a Welsh "Napoleon Dynamite."
  3. Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    Jun 1, 2011
    60
    Though Submarine isn't a dull head-movie, amid the bells and whistles, Roberts seems less its star than its cameraman.
  4. Reviewed by: Rex Reed
    Jun 1, 2011
    25
    The 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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Fantastic in every way.
  2. 10
    Normally I wouldn't give movies like this a 10, more of an 8 but due to the pretentious-steaming-pile-of-you-know-what people out there giving it a 0 I hae to try an balance it. Also Richard Ayoade is brilliant in everything he's done. Most notably 'The IT Crowd' and 'Garth Mergingi's Dark Place'. Please if you haven't seen it an only know the premise don't give it a rating. Your screwing with peoples bread and butter when you do. Expand
  3. 8
    This is a subtly hilarious movie very artistically filmed and thought out. Oliver is a hilariously introverted character that was fairly easy for me to relate to because of my shyness. He narrated a whole lot in this movie and normally I would say that is a bad thing but it definitely worked to Submarine's advantage. Watch this movie! Expand
  4. It's not that it's unsatisfactory - quite the contrary, it has a different approach from the current movies that deal with this same subject, planking a more reflective and somewhat emotional in contrast to the standards of today's youth who cherish the "fied here and now". However you can see a lot of immaturity in the direction and script, especially in the latter it is based, a lot of literary works of renowned intellectual only to tell the difference before the rest of the protagonist of his own track age - a fact that also makes the film takes an air of "cult" which, in my opinion, has not - and makes the movie lose some of its originality. The movement of cameras sometimes tires a little too. Exaggeration of a rookie aside, there are positive sides as the undisputed loyalty to the thinking of young people today - until I saw in some of the crises of the unsafe Oliver, in his paranoia and assumptions without rhyme or reason. The soundtrack is flawless - her voice, lyrics, everything in her talent fits perfectly with the movie and the character. And the photography has gone far from what I was expecting. Anyway, it's a good movie, unruffled and distinct, even with some exaggerations coming from an inexperienced filmmaker. Independent and faithful to the public of Generation Y. Expand

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