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Paranoid Park (2007)

Paranoid Park

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
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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
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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.