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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a lively, powerful coming-of-age tale with winning performances and sharp direction from first-timer Dito Montiel.
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Given all the filmed memory pieces about screaming, violent Italian-American families in New York boroughs, I'm not especially thrilled by even a well-made example. February 27, 2008 | Full Review…
Given all the filmed memory pieces about screaming, violent Italian-American families in New York boroughs, I'm not especially thrilled by even a well-made example.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It positively crackles with energy, featuring startlingly raw performances from a cast that also includes Shia LaBeouf as the young Dito. And if it looks ragged around the edges, that's as it should be. July 31, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It positively crackles with energy, featuring startlingly raw performances from a cast that also includes Shia LaBeouf as the young Dito. And if it looks ragged around the edges, that's as it should be.
Stella Papamichael
Over-indulgent but often interesting and ambitious in its attempt to recreate the free-wheeling, jazz-improvisational feel of classic independent 70s cinema. March 3, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Over-indulgent but often interesting and ambitious in its attempt to recreate the free-wheeling, jazz-improvisational feel of classic independent 70s cinema.
Peter Bradshaw
The plot itself might not break much new ground, but the telling, by both cast and crew, makes this a memoir to remember. February 28, 2007 | Full Review…
The plot itself might not break much new ground, but the telling, by both cast and crew, makes this a memoir to remember.
Ben Walters
Tough streets, tough Love. February 27, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Tough streets, tough Love.
Adrian D'Enrico
It takes a while to recognize these saints, but the effort is worth it. November 17, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It takes a while to recognize these saints, but the effort is worth it.
Peter Howell
Montiel's honey coated Queens of the mid-'80s is rich with the violence and carnality of teenagers, and the performances of LaBeouf (as the young Dito) and Channing Tatum (as his Stanley Kowalski-like grunt friend, Antonio) are raw pleasures. November 7, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
Montiel's honey coated Queens of the mid-'80s is rich with the violence and carnality of teenagers, and the performances of LaBeouf (as the young Dito) and Channing Tatum (as his Stanley Kowalski-like grunt friend, Antonio) are raw pleasures.
Luke Goodsell
Dito Montiel adapts his autobiographical 2001 novel into a vivid slice-of-life drama from the Jim Carroll school of disaffected coming-of-age New York journalism. April 24, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Dito Montiel adapts his autobiographical 2001 novel into a vivid slice-of-life drama from the Jim Carroll school of disaffected coming-of-age New York journalism.
Cole Smithey
It is its very autobiographical roots that make Saints an emotional wallop, a raw, authentic work that is, at its defiant core, violently and unrestrainedly alive. February 28, 2008 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
It is its very autobiographical roots that make Saints an emotional wallop, a raw, authentic work that is, at its defiant core, violently and unrestrainedly alive.
Brandon Fibbs
Superb performances and a gripping retrospective plotline make this tough cookie an entertaining one, even if its adult story strand is weighed down with vagaries. February 27, 2008 | Full Review…
Superb performances and a gripping retrospective plotline make this tough cookie an entertaining one, even if its adult story strand is weighed down with vagaries.
Anna Smith
I love the scenes with young people in the middle of a hot New York summer, talking to one another like panthers circling. September 6, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
I love the scenes with young people in the middle of a hot New York summer, talking to one another like panthers circling.
Walter Chaw
the adult scenes, though providing the film with structural ballast, also weigh it down. July 6, 2007 | Full Review…
the adult scenes, though providing the film with structural ballast, also weigh it down.
Anton Bitel
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