| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a movie for those who sometimes, in the stillness of the sleepless night, are so filled with hope and longing that they feel like -- well, like uttering wild goat cries to the moon. You know who you are.
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
Never takes off, and much of the time Pool seems lost herself, resorting to clichés, redundancy, and dead-end allegory.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Lost and Delirious doesn't need metaphors for the power of strength and healing. All the passion and pain it needs glows ferociously in the eyes of its young women.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Boldly goes where Hollywood rarely treads: into the passionate, intense, and complex world of girls at the point in their lives when self-discovery is combined with enormous vulnerability.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Pool captures the crazed urgency of first love -- the feeling of a passion so fierce that even a disapproving society can't crush it.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Boldly goes where Hollywood rarely treads: into the passionate, intense and complex world of girls at the point in their lives when self-discovery is tempered by enormous vulnerability.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Nicely written as well as filmed.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Evokes the intimacies of teenage girls with unusual delicacy, and Perabo's performance is a geyser of emotion.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Sophisticated in that European way and predictable in that Hollywood way.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Perfectly cast, if insufficiently dramatized.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Piper Perabo is a revelation -- and Barton is maturing into a sensitive, subtle performer with a marvelously expressive face.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
Blessed with a lovely score and strong acting, but crippled by an awkward, mawkish script.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Perabo gives a fairly impressive and flashy performance, even when the script descends into melodrama.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Will divide audiences between those whose hearts have been tugged into going along with the picture way past common sense and those who find it impossible to accept the film's credibility-defying developments.
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| 50 |
New Times (L.A.)
The movie is beautiful to look at (lensed by Pierre Gill) as are the girls, but it takes its clunky message so seriously that it often verges on silliness.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It has a frenetic, unsettled edginess that chafes against its serene, woodsy, upscale private school setting.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
A startling letdown after (Léa Pool's) plaintive, understated coming-of-age tale "Set Me Free."
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| 40 |
The New York Times
It works in so many ways except for the script, which sounds laughable. And sadly, when Lost and Delirious trips over its own two feet, it is laughable. It needs to follow Paulie's advice and rage more.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Equally earnest and unconvincing.
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| 30 |
Variety
David Rooney
All the dramatic stops are pulled out as the script goes into serious literary overload.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
Isn't much more than a self-indulgent picture about the feeble delirium of a lovesick girl -- lightweight stuff that labors to seem terribly important.
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