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Mid90s

2018

Jonah Hill

Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Alexa Demie ...

6.9

4,656

Drama Written and directed by Jonah Hill, 'Mid90s' follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 90s-era LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Though made by a Hollywood star, isn’t a nostalgic indie 'fable'. It’s something smaller and purer: a slice of street life made up of moments that achieve a bone-deep reality."	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Suljic emotionally transparent performance makes stretches of the picture a pure joy (...) A gem that feels simultaneously informed by its author's adolescence and the product of a serious artist's observational distance."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] bristles with fun, feeling and the exhilaration that comes with risking life’s hairpin turns (...) Hill is absolutely sure — which makes his movie totally irresistible (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jason Bailey The Playlist	"[It is] so busy displaying the appropriate needle drops and cinematic influences that it never discovers an emotional heartbeat of its own"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"It’s an ideal template for exploring the meandering pathway to young adulthood, and for a filmmaker to show potential without overextending ambition"	POS
United States	Kristen Yoonsoo Kim LA Weekly	"For all its darkness, is uplifted by its hilarious moments and joyous skating shots - filmed on Super 16, set to the golden Californian soundtrack of "The Mamas & the Papas'."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Mid90s' struggles to figure out what it wants to be, and the struggle makes it interesting as well as occasionally frustrating."	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Hill is too smart to mistake nostalgia and signifiers for storytelling. Instead, he makes 'Mid90s' resonate with universal poignancy and electric energy; his kids are the best, messiest kind of real, and they're alright."	POS
United States	Vikram Murthi rogerebert.com	"A solid film that frequently tries too hard to be modest and unassuming (...) The best thing I can say about 'Mid90s' is that Hill gets what it means to want to be cool."	POS
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"[It prioritizes] throwback comedy, often dully, over cogent character portraiture (...) The members of the cast exist as mouthpieces for Hill’s wit (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"[It] is more than an exercise in refracting the nostalgic radiance of its cultural touchstones. It's something both rougher and more tender, and still a little bit unformed."	NEU
United States	Adam Chitwood Collider	"Jonah Hill’s soulful directorial debut is a gem (...) The performances are the beating heart of 'mid90s', and a massive amount of credit goes to Hill’s direction"	POS
United States	Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"Watching Suljic have a blast with 90s music blaring over the visual nostalgia of film grain and full frame aspect ratio is enough to enjoy every second spent with him, but Hill underestimates the others’ appeal."	NEU
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"Snappy direction and a heady sense of nostalgia can’t hide a frustratingly flat coming-of-age tale that shows an actor struggling to find anything of interest to say (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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