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. Negative: 1 out of 8

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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.