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For Ellen Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    61

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    Village Voice Michael Atkinson

    Dano, with his remarkably guileless meta-teen puss, is thoroughly convincing, which is more than can be said for the film's shameless climactic steal from "Five Easy Pieces."

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    Rather than finding an interesting, resonant ambiguity in his experience, Ms. Kim and Mr. Dano settle for a kind of suggestive vagueness, losing the thread of their character in the snow, steam and cigarette smoke that provide the film's main visual motif and perhaps also its dominant metaphor.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    The scant character development is not enhanced by the film's directorial style.

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  • 58

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    The drama is so minimalist that it's hard to glimpse the man behind the woe.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Robert Koehler

    As a struggling rocker making a last-ditch attempt to gain shared custody of his daughter, Paul Dano delivers a beautifully wrought performance in a different key from any of his previous roles.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    This performance, unlike anything Paul Dano has ever done, must have required some courage. It requires an actor to cast aside all conceits of performance, presence, charisma and even timing.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    A small but exquisite film, beautifully observed and impeccably executed. Written and directed by So Yong Kim, it shows a different side of an actor we thought we knew and reveals unexpected aspects of a character who turns out to be not as familiar as he seems.

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