Paranoid Park (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 102 Fresh: 76 Rotten:26 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus:
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.
Runtime: 80 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 7, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $241,672
Synopsis: While Gus Van Sant's PARANOID PARK is in keeping with the atmospheric work of the films in his previous "death trilogy" (GERRY, ELEPHANT, LAST DAYS), this time around he's working from a more conventional narrative to capture the awkwardness and pressures of adolescence. The result is a work... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Dan Liu, Lauren McKinney
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I would say that there is a really good 50 minute movie tucked away inside here, but Van Sant insists on padding it with material that doesn't belong.
06/18/08
In a film where dialogue comes at a premium, Van Sant allows his camera to do the talking, and when it rests too long on one subject, the commentary feels like overstatement. Elsewhere, 'Paranoid Park' is eloquent in its terseness.
05/29/08
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05/20/08
I don't know what's more surprising: that director Gus Van Sant has made yet another movie about the lives of disaffected Portland teenagers, or that he's pulled it off one more time with "Paranoid Park."
05/09/08
Van Sant's ... adoration of uncommunicative kids with limited vocabularies and awesome hair is beginning to wear a little thin.
05/01/08
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04/21/08
Top Critic
That there's nothing definitive to wrap your arms around is frustrating. And intriguing.
04/17/08
Paranoid Park is different, in that it also has a narrative -- a mystery, in fact -- that gives it a dramatic tension Van Sant's recent films have lacked.
04/11/08
At times the movie approaches a purely cinematic form as the simple narrative hitches and winds around itself and the soundtrack... hums along
04/11/08
It felt like Van Sant was imagining a nonexistent depth in order to justify his own fascination with Alex and his companions.
04/09/08
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Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant's mesmerizing new movie, melds the dreamy languor of his last few films with a page-turner of a plot.
03/28/08
All this will be way too arty for most viewers. But those willing to take a chance will find unexpected if hard-to-describe pleasures.
03/28/08
Van Sant opens a window onto the teen life ..., but the insights have less depth than a skateboard wheel's imprint.
03/28/08
If you are planning to shoot a visual poem, there is no one better to have on hand than cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Doyle knows how to find seduction and romance anywhere.
03/26/08
The impressionistic skating scenes are absolutely the best part of the film.
03/22/08
[The narrative is] as speedy and graceful as the skateboarders it lingers over in Paranoid Park, where their daredevil moves are often shot in dreamily beautiful slow motion.
03/21/08
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