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Fourteen subtly establishes the bond between its main characters -- and the way longtime friendships can erode by a matter of nearly invisible degrees. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Two childhood friends weather life together with varying degrees of success.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Dan Sallitt
Producer:

Caitlin Mae Burke
Writer:

Dan Sallitt
Release Date (Theaters):

May 15, 2020 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

May 15, 2020
Runtime:

1h 34m
Production Co:

Static Prods.

Cast & Crew

Tallie Medel
Mara

Norma Kuhling
Jo Mitchel

Lorelei Romani
Lorelei (5 years)

C. Mason Wells
Adam (Mara's boyfriend)

Dylan McCormick
Conor (Jo's boyfriend)

Kolyn Brown
Leah (Mara's co-worker)

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Critic Reviews for Fourteen

All Critics (46) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (1)

There's nothing in Fourteen that moviegoers have not seen before, but the empathetic performances by both Medel and Kuhling make this a journey worth taking.

June 5, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Matthew Monagle
Austin Chronicle
The rare movie that intelligently and compassionately honors the push-pull dynamic between two young women, a pair of Brooklynites whose tight bond began when they were children but is starting to fray.

May 22, 2020 | Full Review…

Melissa Anderson
4Columns
The film's rhythm might sound jarring on paper, but Fourteen is more a work of structural playfulness and experimentation than gimmicky manipulation.

May 20, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Barry Hertz
Globe and Mail
It resorts neither to buddy-movie cliché nor melodramatic angst in portraying the ways we outgrow our friends, and they us.

May 18, 2020 | Full Review…

Guy Lodge
Variety
What I love about the film, among other aspects, is how the wry verbal wit of the early conversations suggests a mordant comedy, almost a working-class variation on the films of Whit Stillman.

May 15, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
You're supposed to see a slice of life, but all you can see are the rehearsals.

May 15, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Nick Allen
RogerEbert.com
Sallitt finds the right narrative pulse for this slight tale, which develops with emotional insight and cerebral pragmatism.

March 30, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Filipe Freitas
Always Good Movies
With astonishingly economical edits, Sallitt let us witness the passage of time without missing a beat. With his extremely slim and straightforward filmmaking, Sallitt accomplishes something that is both deeply poignant and beautiful.

February 12, 2021 | Full Review…

Dustin Chang
Floating World
Features fine performances by both lead actresses, and expertly shows the ways people's lives slowly evolve throughout their 20s, with boyfriends appearing and disappearing

January 22, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Stephen Silver
Splice Today
Fourteen feels almost like a collection of journal or diary entries, devastating moments in these lives that will flash forward at the drop of a hat

September 10, 2020 | Full Review…

Joshua Brunsting
The CriterionCast
Figuring out if we can be can continue to be someone's person in a steady continuum of such moments is the question Fourteen asks, artfully, and on its own terms.

June 22, 2020 | Full Review…

Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly
Fourteen's ambitions are a bit grander than its execution, but Sallitt, who is a film critic in addition to director, is grappling seriously with form as he examines what's in a friendship.

June 16, 2020 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Isabella Bridie DeLeo
Paste Magazine