Lost and Delirious

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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.

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

Never takes off, and much of the time Pool seems lost herself, resorting to clichés, redundancy, and dead-end allegory.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

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.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

Pool captures the crazed urgency of first love -- the feeling of a passion so fierce that even a disapproving society can't crush it.

Chicago Tribune Loren King

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.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Nicely written as well as filmed.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Evokes the intimacies of teenage girls with unusual delicacy, and Perabo's performance is a geyser of emotion.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Sophisticated in that European way and predictable in that Hollywood way.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Perfectly cast, if insufficiently dramatized.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Piper Perabo is a revelation -- and Barton is maturing into a sensitive, subtle performer with a marvelously expressive face.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Blessed with a lovely score and strong acting, but crippled by an awkward, mawkish script.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Perabo gives a fairly impressive and flashy performance, even when the script descends into melodrama.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

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.

New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

It has a frenetic, unsettled edginess that chafes against its serene, woodsy, upscale private school setting.

Village Voice Jessica Winter

A startling letdown after (Léa Pool's) plaintive, understated coming-of-age tale "Set Me Free."

The New York Times A.O. Scott

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.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Equally earnest and unconvincing.

Variety David Rooney

All the dramatic stops are pulled out as the script goes into serious literary overload.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

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.