The Myth of the American Sleepover
User Score
5.6 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8

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  1. klapperc
    Aug 3, 2012
    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.

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Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    Sep 1, 2011
    75
    It has a sense of small-town America that feels special even without great specificity. Some of the music on the soundtrack places it in 2007 or 2008, but, really, the film occurs outside of time, virtually outside of place (it's suburban Detroit), and in a void of cultural chic.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    Jul 28, 2011
    90
    First-time writer-director David Robert Mitchell tells a coming-of-age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.
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  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    Jul 22, 2011
    40
    The real problem is that this eager-to-please debut never quite achieves its own, more modest ambitions.
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