Stateside Reviews

Stateside plays like urgent ideas for a movie which Anselmo needed to make, but they're still in note form.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

| Original Score: C+

Stateside veers toward "Showgirls"-level camp but merely ends up being awful.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

This one isn't even worth watching on cable TV, unless you're ready to be fitted for a straight jacket.

Full Review | Original Score: D-

The two leads don't have any chemistry, especially the flat, emotionless Tucker.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

This story about mental illness within a romantic relationship wallows in the reckless abuse of the privileges of wealth. It's an unsatisfying cinematic interlude.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

[L]ike scenes cut from another, far better film...

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Contrived and emotionally incomplete, and strained further by self-consciously cockeyed dialogue.

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Anselmo, basing his script on a true story, juggles more plots than a full season of The O.C., setting his cast adrift in a sea of soap-opera bubbles.

| Original Score: 2/4

Although based on a true story, it never establishes its own identity, often playing like warmed-over J.D. Salinger.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

This muddled drama begins as a high school soap opera, segues into a boys-to-men military drama and peters out as a feeble answer to Girl, Interrupted.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Plays like a movie of the week.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A ludicrous indie romance.

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The lovers' nonexistent chemistry doesn't generate enough heat to light a match.

Full Review | Original Score: C

The Young And The Wacko... The movie tries to be a lot of things -- but it fails at all of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Well-acted but ultimately bland...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

With a better cast than it deserves and a script from which it deserved better, the film is pleasant where it should be rowdy, quaint where it should be refreshing, and altogether far less daring than it thinks it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

so conventional it borders on experimental

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Writer-director Reverge Anselmo handles sensitive issues not with kid gloves, but with a metaphorical baseball mitt, fumbling with tone and obviously laboring to force quirks upon characters and situations.

| Original Score: 1/4

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