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Critics Consensus: The Tribes of Palos Verdes serves up a minor -- albeit alluringly atmospheric -- variation on the coming-of-age story, led by a strong performance from Maika Monroe.
Critic Consensus: The Tribes of Palos Verdes serves up a minor -- albeit alluringly atmospheric -- variation on the coming-of-age story, led by a strong performance from Maika Monroe.
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (8)
It's a gorgeous-looking, sensitively edited film to be sure, but never finds a dramatic foothold, no matter how many manic arguments and drug overdoses it throws our way.
What's the point of white privilege if it doesn't protect you from disaster and despair?
The directors get some melancholic atmosphere out of their visuals but don't have the scene sense to build their actors' committed performances into compelling through-lines of seaside personality disintegration.
It demonstrates a remarkable sense of atmosphere and place.
This is pretty standard stuff, and it's not always rendered too convincingly.
The Malloys' filmmaking never rises to the level of the actors' nuanced performances. The actors are energized, but the camera enervates.
The Tribes of Palos Verdes has a gorgeous stylistic mood.
"The Tribes of Palos Verdes" privileges melodrama over nuance, pitting skilled actors against a humdrum script and sketchy roles.
The dynamics at play are genuine, even if the movie does take at least one melodramatic turn too many.
... strains credibility while detouring into heavy-handed melodrama, and doesn't provide many avenues for audience sympathy.
Things get worse, in ways that are predictable, but the film unfolds so languidly that it ultimately feels more sad than melodramatic.
"Verdes" isn't an upbeat film, but the production doesn't get caught in the undertow of despair, managing to find a level of alarm that keeps the story engrossing while it surveys some desperate emotional issues.
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