Writer/director Burr Steers knows how to show irony, the trouble with kids, and New Yorkers taking casual sex for granted.
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10/15/02
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Igby Goes Down (2002)
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Reviews Counted:126
Fresh:96
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: In the vein of The Catcher in the Rye, Igby Goes Down is scathingly witty and sharply observant.
Theatrical Release:Sep 13, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $4,624,014
Synopsis: Meet IGBY SLOCUMB (Kieran Culkin), an iconoclastic young teenager and hapless product of a deplorable upbringing. Igby is the youngest member of the Slocumb family which, in reality, is four... [More]
Starring: Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman
Director: Burr Steers
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Reviews for Igby Goes Down
So young, so smart, such talent, such a wise ***.
09/13/02
You get the impression that writer and director Burr Steers knows the territory ... but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools.
09/13/02
Top CriticSteers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edges; it's so clever you want to hate it. But he somehow pulls it off.
09/20/02
While teens are at the age of self discovery, Igby is doing his best work at self-destruction.
06/05/04
Culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character.
09/19/02
Writer/director Burr Steers emphasizes the Q in Quirky, with mixed results.
09/16/02
I have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture, and, whatever flaws Igby Goes Down may possess, it is undeniably that.
09/14/02
Top CriticOne of those rare, exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight, as you mull over its every nuance in your mind.
09/18/02
The film makes a fatal mistake: It asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life.
10/10/02
Culkin, who's in virtually every scene, shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield.
09/13/02
A lark, especially for all those who enjoy cheering for losers who maintain their own special weirdness as woes rain down upon them.
09/12/02
Steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate Manhattan denizens--especially the a**holes.
09/17/02
Blisteringly rude, scarily funny, sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys, the film has in Kieran Culkin a pitch-perfect Holden.
09/20/02
Top CriticIt's a movie so audacious as to take your breath away -- and one whose slashing style infuriates almost as often as it satisfies.
10/11/02
Igby insists on throwing one unsympathetic character after another at us until it becomes clear there's nobody to root for.
09/27/02
A battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee.
09/25/02
A mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read The Catcher in the Rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia
09/12/02
It tends to remind one of a really solid Woody Allen film, with its excellent use of New York locales and sharp writing
09/20/02
Steers, in his feature film debut, has created a brilliant motion picture.
09/13/02
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