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… the coolest high-school movie since Heathers. Read full review
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Metascore®Generally favorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
It's all so seamy, sordid, lurid and shocking! And dull, despite a noirish gloss of wide-angle cinematography and a jaundiced, smoggy color scheme.
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Has the inherent limits of all movies that feed on movies, rather than life -- it's original, yet it's not.
The story, while derivative, isn't half bad, and the picture gains in finesse and confidence to the point where Johnson more or less pulls off his peril-fraught exercise.
This movie leaves me looking forward to the director's next film; we can say of Rian Johnson, as somebody once said about a dame named Brigid O'Shaughnessy, "You're good. You're very good."
Johnson has taken a well-worn, much-revised genre, adapted to what's become a clichd setting and transcended both in the process.
The mean streets don't get any nastier than the high school parking lots in this cool-crafted mystery.
Johnson also grabs hold of a fundamental truth and seduces us with it: The schoolyard can be the noirest burg of all.
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