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Critics Consensus: The tender little moments of adolescence are beautifully captured in this warm and modest coming-of-age drama.
Critic Consensus: The tender little moments of adolescence are beautifully captured in this warm and modest coming-of-age drama.
All Critics (25) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (9) | DVD (1)
The movie is both amusing and disturbing as it explores Emerson's lurching efforts to bond with his teacher.
These knots are all tied by the end, but not memorably so.
This wry, tender 2005 Canadian comedy puts a fresh spin on the theme of adolescent sexual awakening.
A gentle, perceptive Canadian film.
... promises slightly more than it delivers but still comes together nicely.
... well-intentioned but underwhelming ...
a small-scale film with big emotional payoffs.
Toronto-based filmmaker Amnon Buchbinder tackles the sensitive subject of adolescent sexuality in this winning coming-of-age character study set in a wintry small town in Nova Scotia.
Buchbinder displays an original filmic eye, but mostly Whole New Thing is a few drafts short of an emotionally fulfillilng feature.
But what's salutary about this effort is the canny intelligence and emotional understanding director Amnon Buchbinder has brought to the mostly well-wrought screenplay he wrote with MacIvor.
The dialogue has a sour, sitcom ring that grows tiresome and irritating before the second reel.
The cast is uniformly excellent, but Webber in his first feature role is a stand out, delivering a subtle performance that offers a fully realized portrayal of a smart, sensitive, confused, and sometimes bratty and obnoxious youth.
I'm afraid that this didn't do much for me. The uber intelligent 13 year old dealing with angst etc. Seen it a million times before and this isn't one of the better stories to tell.
Super Reviewer
Messed up muddle of a film.
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