The Myth of the American Sleepover
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67 out of 100

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5.6 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings

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  • Summary: Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. indieWIRE
    Reviewed by: Eric Kohn
    Jul 19, 2011
    91
    By favoring mood over plot, "Myth" explores what it feels like to transition into youth adulthood and face harsher truths.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    Jul 21, 2011
    80
    What Mr. Mitchell gets splendidly right in this quiet, observant film, is the unsteady mixture of sophistication and naïveté that is central to the modern American teenage way of being in the world.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Joshua Rothkopf
    Jul 19, 2011
    60
    Swaddled with a lacquer of nostalgia that passes for cultural insight, this one-night-in-sweatpants drama will make you yearn for a moratorium on teen movies-at least ones so aggressively dewy-eyed.
  4. New York Observer
    Reviewed by: Rex Reed
    Jul 19, 2011
    0
    The movie is so clueless and time-warped it could be comprised of outtakes from "Father Knows Best."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. DiegoSanRobles
    6
    What struck me about this movie is its push for timelessness. I don't remember the kids using cell phones or mentioning facebook (unless I missed it) so in a way it does have the nostalgic tone that most of these day-in-the-life-of-teens mosaic films generally have, even if I think this is supposed to be contemporary. We have seen these interlocking stories about teen awakening before, but what this filmmaker is interested in is stripping it down so much that its strive for authenticity somewhat fails when one storyline feels a bit lacking (the college-age kid being creepy with twins he may have shared a moment with in high school).… Expand
  2. MarcDoyle
    5
    I can appreciate the mood and the murky perspectives from each of these kids, but the film as a whole seems undercooked to me. It's going for a more authentic feeling than "Dazed & Confused", "The Stoned Age" or "Can't Hardly Wait", and it's not as hard-edged as a "Suburbia", but it feels to me like it could have spent some more time in the concept stages. I like the older character who genially stalks the twins-who-got-away, but that storyline is not clever enough or thought through enough to make an impact. And the relationship between the runner who has transferred in to the new school and is unsure about which cluster of girls to befriend and her boyfriend is a little shallow for my liking. But hey, none of these are damnable offenses. It's just not a movie that I can enthusiastically recommend with a positive rating.… Expand
  3. filmtrashreview
    5
    So on one night every person that is in high school is at some form of sleepover, including the twins who left for a college one. It's your basic mellow drama and offers up nothing new at all. It's interesting at point but is destroyed by horrible acting. I spent more time thinking of catchy ways to trash this film then I did interested in it's lame plot. Overall, its basically a super long and horrible episode of Degrassi mixed with a little 90210.… Expand
  4. klapperc
    0
    This movie is a disaster. It was so bad that you had to keep watching. I don't know what I hated more. The bad acting or weird scenes where you feel like you stabbing your eyes out with dull knives . And the charters in this movie looked like cereal killers.… Expand

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