As Cool as I Am

Name: As Cool as I Am
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: June 7, 2013
Rating: 28

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IFC Films | Release Date: June 7, 2013 | R

Summary: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.

Director: Max Mayer

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

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John DeFore

Jun 6, 2013

Familiar faces in supporting roles don't do much for the commercial prospects of this modest film, which feels like a made-for-TV version of the prototypical Sundance-aspiring quest for identity. Read full review

Sam Adams

Jun 5, 2013

Director Max Mayer doesn’t find a way to make the ritual traumas of adolescence feel new again. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jun 6, 2013

Simplistic plotting, pedestrian visuals and poorly-handled melodrama do lend the project a cheap, made-for-TV feel, which is underscored by the fact that Danes and Marsden don’t seem obliged to turn in their best work. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Jun 6, 2013

Just when its parts should come together, As Cool as I Am crumbles to bits. Read full review

Tina Hassannia

Jun 6, 2013

The film is the cinematic equivalent of a teenager, making everything more melodramatic than it needs to be, and impatient with the subtle details of life. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jun 6, 2013

Though darker elements loom in the shadows, nothing in this painfully sincere film is remotely affecting; just think of it as “My So-Called Strife.” Read full review

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LeZee

Sep 1, 2016

A Cool kind, but suddenly feeling the real life pressure!

Another teen comedy-drama, precisely to say a coming-of-age theme based on the novel of the same name. It is not from the big production house, but the well known faces make it a worth a watch and their performances were too notA Cool kind, but suddenly feeling the real life pressure!

Another teen comedy-drama, precisely to say a coming-of-age theme based on the novel of the same name. It is not from the big production house, but the well known faces make it a worth a watch and their performances were too not bad. The tale of a teen tomboy girl Lucy, whose father visits home often who works in Canada and her mother is an easy going type. It's about a time for her sexual exploration and the first choice is her best buddy Kenny. But quickly the things around changes which forces her to opt the life she wants and what follows is how it all shapes up before bringing a curtain to the narration.

I felt like wanting to give it a better rating, at least it deserves a decent respect, but narration had lots of up and down. That does not matter, even for how a tale begins, but the ending should have been a better one where I slightly disappointed with it. Sarah Bolger looked solid, totally one man show you could say. Maybe that is how the story was designed, but that did not stand a chance to impress me, because I thought it leaned excessively on her alone leaving other characters less developed. Anyway, it could also be said like this that it was her story which lacked the good support.

It is not just a coming-of-age film, but when you look at how the story ends, that's kind of self-discovery. Maybe the girl was caught between the teenhood and adulthood, especially in the climax it leaped forward too long. The hardest part is the R rating for a teen film, though there were none nudes, even in the sex scenes, but the film topic itself highly influenced by those like experiencing and moving-on in the life. So the film is not worth going after for a watching by someone's recommendation, only when you get an opportunity without much options you could try it.

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DCEdmonds

Nov 13, 2014

"As Cool As I Am" 10 Scale Rating: 4.0 (Bad) ...

The Good: The cast was solid and did a good job with what they had to work with. Sarah Bolger was absolutely fantastic. I have seen very little of her, but if she turns in performances like this one, then I look forward to seeing more of"As Cool As I Am" 10 Scale Rating: 4.0 (Bad) ...

The Good: The cast was solid and did a good job with what they had to work with. Sarah Bolger was absolutely fantastic. I have seen very little of her, but if she turns in performances like this one, then I look forward to seeing more of her. The story is a decent one and the first half is extremely interesting and thought provoking.

The Bad: It falls apart in the second act and goes from pretty good to bad. Parts of the story stop making sense and several characters suddenly become downright unlikeable. The ending was poorly done and abrupt. A lot of buildup with no pay off.… Expand

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