Tanner Hall Reviews

Entertaining but sometimes sophomoric coming-of-age drama about a gaggle of nice and not-so-nice rich girls at a boarding school, boasting star Rooney Mara before her Social Network/Dragon Tattoo coups.

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There is an empathy in Tanner Hall that overcomes its familiar trappings and iffy low-budget scope.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Codirectors Francesca Gregorini and Tatiana von Furstenberg work up some believable, easygoing rapport between the young actresses, but since the story line is hackneyed, it's rapport in a vacuum.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

A cinematic cocktail blended from the contents of a suburban medicine cabinet, "Tanner Hall" is a girls-boarding-school movie that could bring up the bile in more than a few throats.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

Uneven coming-of-age drama features sex, drugs, adultery.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Rarely rises above the generic, though its atmosphere of coddled young people indulging themselves in opulent surroundings is palpably authentic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Ultimately not even the gifted Mara can keep the film from feeling like a gauzy portrait of privilege.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The performances aren't bad, but the film quickly collapses into an incoherent, tonally inconsistent muddle with no narrative momentum.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Allows room for a lot of thinking about other things - its cast most notably, since watching their struggle to move beyond the mundane is painful.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

There are some dedicated performances, but this unfocused drama adds nothing new to the girls' boarding school film curriculum.

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has its charms but it's mostly full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A derivative and unappealing drama about four girls at a boarding school.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The result isn't bad, it just lacks momentum and a strong reason for existing.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Nothing but a tone-deaf, cliché-ridden mediocrity at best.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

[A] tale of teenage rivalry, forbidden romance and other musty coming-of-age concerns.

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The story is involving but the character are types rather than authentic individuals.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

A misshapen beast of a film, Tanner Hall isn't so much kaleidoscopic, episodic drama as underdeveloped, perfunctory multi-character mash-up.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4