Paranoid Park (2007)

Drama

1 hr. 24 min.

Directed by Gus Van Sant (highly acclaimed Elephant, Good Will Hunting, Last Days), this coming-of-age story is about a teenage skateboarder's life and the troubles he faces after a terrible accident.

Rated R for some disturbing images, language and sexual content

Directed by: Gus Van Sant

Starring: Gabe Nevins, Jake Miller, Taylor Momsen, Lauren McKinney, Daniel Lui

Theatrical Release Date: 3/07/2008

Release Type: Limited

U.S. Box Office: $486,021

Video/DVD Release Date: 10/07/2008

Distributor: IFC First Take

Country: France / USA

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	8	...graced with those peculiar Van Sant touches of discovery and absurdity, delightful because they're at once so right and so inscrutable.
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips	8	...finds the writer-director working in an assured and formally beautiful middle ground between experimentation and the mainstream.
filmcritic.com Chris Cabin	10	...boundlessly-brilliant...
New York Post V. A. Musetto	8	...an intriguing, mind-altering skateboard elegy...
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh	7	...abstract, deceptively minimalistic...
Reel Ken Dubois	7	...a creative, engaging film...
Slant Magazine Akiva Gottlieb	8	...haunting and immediate...
Rolling Stone Peter Travers	8	...a haunting tone poem laced with violent death.
New York Times Manohla Dargis	9	...a haunting, voluptuously beautiful portrait...
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano	9	...a gorgeously stark, mesmerizingly elliptical story told in the same lyrical-prosaic style that has characterized his latest films.
LA Weekly J. Hoberman	9	The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor.
Village Voice J. Hoberman	9	The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor.
Onion AV Club Keith Phipps	9	...dreamily unsettling...
Variety Todd McCarthy	9	...a rarified, arid artwork that will register with Van Sant's hardcore fans but leave anyone looking for more conventional satisfactions, notably teenagers themselves, impatient and unfulfilled. Commercial career of this French-financed feature will follow in the very modest footsteps of the helmer's recent work.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	8.4
AVERAGE USER RATING (5 ratings)	7.2

USER REVIEWS:

Oracle 9

Moving, brilliantly aestheticized, heartbreaking, and beguiling, Paranoid Park is yet another triumph for Gus Van Sant, though here he detaches from what is the death trilogy. Nonetheless, a masterful film.