Paranoid Park
critic Reviews
, 76% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- Director Gus Van Sant once again superbly captures the ins and outs of teenage life in Paranoid Park, a quietly devastating portrait of a young man living with guilt and anxiety.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRead full articleHank SartinTime Out
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMelissa AndersonTime Out
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAlissa WilkinsonPaste Magazine
In the hands of cinematographic mastermind Christopher Doyle, teenage spats, telephone calls and coasting skateboarders are infused with lyricism and dreaminess.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMarc SavlovAustin Chronicle
It's breathtaking, heartbreaking, tragic, gorgeous, and true all at the same time.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreV.A. MusettoNew York Post
[An] intriguing, mind-altering skateboard elegy.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAlonso DuraldeMSNBC
Van Sant's ... adoration of uncommunicative kids with limited vocabularies and awesome hair is beginning to wear a little thin.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDavid LambleBay Area Reporter
Van Sant retains the lovely insider's perspective of floating on the surface of an alien if familiar-looking planet, courtesy of one-time Wong Kar Wai cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMattie LucasFrom the Front Row
Captures the essence of high school life better than most teen movies could ever dream.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKaleem AftabThe List
This is easily Van Sant's most satisfying film of his recent youth alienation pictures.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTroy PattersonSpin
Glum yet gorgeous, Paranoid Park ties together Alex's bleak confusion with his more mundane existential teen traumas.
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