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Kicking and Screaming (1995)

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43

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 8

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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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Inspired by the advent of Seattle's grunge music sound and popular films such as Slacker (1991) and Singles (1992), the Generation X comedy-drama was born. Typified by characters in their early twenties sharing an abundance of education, a lack of career direction, stunted romantic aspirations and an obsession with popular culture, one of the better examples of the genre was Kicking and Screaming. Josh Hamilton stars as Grover, a recent college graduate and aspiring writer depressed over the

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Aug 22, 2006

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All Critics (40) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (18) | DVD (20)

First-time writer and director Noah Baumbach, 25, has a knack for acute observation and a spirited cast to animate every twisted nuance.

May 12, 2001
Rolling Stone
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Baumbach ... pushes his rigorous stance to the extent that you begin to wonder why you're bothering to watch the aimless lives of these four unfold.

February 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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For a debut, Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming is an impressive effort, but it lacks the resonance or flexibility of his The Squid and the Whale, released ten years later.

February 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Film and Felt
Film and Felt

Mixing the neurotic drive of Woody Allen with the urbane wit of Stillman, this derivative debut presents yet another take on guys who simply can't let go of college--and their adolescence.

December 19, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

...At once entirely of its moment and timeless.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

The best of Chris Eigman's mid-1990s efforts, an outcome due more to Baumbach's poised direction than to the actor's typically irritating gloomy-sarcastic shtick.

August 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Charts the aimlessness and ennui of four insufferable, maturation-adverse college grads with relaxed realism.

August 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Not much happens, but it captures that moment between college and the real world with perceptive [occasionally glib] accuracy.

December 23, 2005
Zap2it.com

Audience Reviews for Kicking and Screaming

A very opinionated by empty and aimless bore concerning recent college graduates struggling to find their place in the world, and how their lives change over the course of a few months. Noah Baumbach, one of the kings of awkward/anti-social world, has put together a below average "comedy" that is not very funny, with characters that are not very likable, and with a plot that has no problem being about nothing. Unlike "The Squid and the Whale" which had a pretty good sense of humor despite taking itself a little too seriously, the biggest thing with this film is that it is just flat-out not funny or meaningful. I could not care less about the selfish, quirky for quirks sake characters that spouted dialogue that seemed from another planet, and as a result this movie lost me quickly. It is not terrible, it just is not very good.
March 23, 2012
Dan Schultz

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The very underrated hilarious debut from Noah Baumkbach has perhaps the most qoutable lines of any movie I've seen and features great performances from Christopher Eigeman, Carlos Jacott and a supporting role from Elliot Gould.
October 27, 2011
Graham Jones

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