Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
United Artists | Release Date: September 15, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A messy but hungry film like this is more interesting than cool technical perfection. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Sloppy, self-satisfied and surprisingly heartfelt. Read full review
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Less an updated version of the Dostoevsky novel than an unusually somber Hollywood teen love story.
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Melodramatic look at alienated California high school students. Read full review
48
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
Somehow manages to stay afloat on a sea of pretension, thanks largely to some splashy visuals.
40
Film.comErnest Hardy
The whole point is nothing more than the revelation that the terrain of suburbia is populated with damaged people inflicting damage on others. This is still news? Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
Just say no.
30
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Often succumbs to the craven hysteria perhaps inherent in its hoary premise. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Not faithful enough to be an adaptation, too misguided to be considered an interpretation, and not funny enough to be a parody, this film would do well not to advertise its inspiration. Read full review
20
SalonCharles Taylor
Even dressed up in tabloid lighting and cut with jagged edits, this pulp nihilism never goes beyond daytime TV banality. Read full review
20
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Completed before the release of "American Beauty," this contrived, puffed up little picture nonetheless seems like a ripoff, perhaps because it mines the same tired assumptions and unexamined stereotypes about suburban family life. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
A cut above the usual teenage-wasteland movie. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
The "crime" was that it was made in the first place and the "punishment" is having to watch it.
0
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A somber, draggy, deadweight, lugubrious, absurdly self serious version of ''American Beauty.'' Read full review
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