Youth in Revolt Reviews
Big Hollywood
An uneven story and crass comedy could leave viewers revolted.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film Journal International
Michael Cera adopts a mischievous alter ego in an attempt to reunite with his dream girl in a familiarly peculiar story.
What Culture
Playing on feelings and impulses that I'm sure we all relate to, a witty and playful portrait of teen love emerges out of a less exciting teen comedy.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Nick Twisp is no Scott Pilgrim, but this is another witty ensemble comedy that successfully reinvigorates that most benighted of genres, the teen film.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Common Sense Media
Story of "bad-boy" teen is funny, but also rough and raw.
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| Original Score: 4/5
sbs.com.au
Arteta's faithfulness to Payne's text, themes and visions never gel as a wholly satisfying film.
Reel Film Reviews
...an engaging and faithful adaptation of Payne's admittedly superior novel.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Michael Cera goes to the sweet-tempered high school persona well once (or twice) too often with, sigh, Nick Twisp, who lives in hormonal agony with his sex-obsessed divorced mother (Jean Smart) and her nasty boyfriend.
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| Original Score: 80/100
Lessons of Darkness
[Its] classic cinema shoutouts and gaggle of off-kilter characters feel like retreads.
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| Original Score: C+
TheMovieReport.com
Deviates from the teen comedy norm and becomes something darker, edgier, and more unexpectedly funny.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Fan The Fire
Makes early claims for the best comedy of 2010.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Bullz-Eye.com
Cera's hilarious performance as a modern day Holden Caulfield makes Youth in Revolt a must-see for any fan of hipster comedies.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Moving Pictures Magazine
In an irreverent and adorable coming-to-maturity story, Michael Cera displays versatility in a dual role.
Cinerina
When Francois Dillinger is on screen, the movie comes alive...the rest of the time it's that post-Napoleon Dynamite sort of plodding study of eccentricity.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Salt Lake Tribune
I'm now officially done caring whether Michael Cera loses his virginity. So, it seems in this hit-and-miss comedy, is Cera.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
CinePassion
Smug, dead-air-riddled adaptation of C.D. Payne's novel
Fresno Bee
The whole thing just seems as if it's trying too hard.
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| Original Score: C
Empire Magazine
It's chaotic and episodic, but this is Cera's star turn. Superbad meets Fight Club? That'll do it.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticThe tone throughout is moderately quirky rather than full-on teen-flick vulgarian, bolstered by indie-cred cameos.
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| Original Score: 3/5
