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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Johnson also grabs hold of a fundamental truth and seduces us with it: The schoolyard can be the noirest burg of all. Read full review
The mean streets don't get any nastier than the high school parking lots in this cool-crafted mystery. Read full review
Johnson has taken a well-worn, much-revised genre, adapted to what's become a clichd setting and transcended both in the process. Read full review
"Sensational" is the word for Joseph Gordon-Levitt (equally striking in Mysterious Skin), who stars as Brendan, the teen outsider who becomes a budding Bogart. Read full review
This movie leaves me looking forward to the director's next film; we can say of Rian Johnson, as somebody once said about a dame named Brigid O'Shaughnessy, "You're good. You're very good." Read full review
A weird and near-perfect polyglot of indie art film and noir mystery. Read full review
The story, while derivative, isn't half bad, and the picture gains in finesse and confidence to the point where Johnson more or less pulls off his peril-fraught exercise. Read full review
Like a good campfire storyteller, writer-director Rian Johnson knows how to fuse the amusing and the edgy. And, in Brendan, he has created an endearing character. Read full review
Has the inherent limits of all movies that feed on movies, rather than life -- it's original, yet it's not. Read full review
It's all so seamy, sordid, lurid and shocking! And dull, despite a noirish gloss of wide-angle cinematography and a jaundiced, smoggy color scheme. Read full review
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… the coolest high-school movie since Heathers. Read full review