Daltry Calhoun
Miramax Films | Release Date: September 23, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
6
Negative:
4
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50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The soundtrack, which ranges from Johnny Cash to Serge Gainsbourg to the Wu-Tang Clan, is admirably eclectic but can't be said to pull things together. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Seriously flawed - and choppily edited in the worst Harvey Scissorhands style - but there are enough good moments to anticipate a second film from writer-director Katrina Holden Bronson, whose parents were Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Aims for whimsy and poignancy and mostly comes up empty. Read full review
40
VarietyRobert Koehler
A string of scenes in search of a movie. Read full review
40
Village VoiceBenjamin Strong
Daltry Calhoun (Johnny Knoxville) urges you to "get high on grass--the legal kind." But to find anything funny in director Katrina Holden Bronson's debut, you're going to want the illegal kind. Read full review
40
The New York TimesLaura Kern
Although the film starts off somewhat amusingly, the first-time feature director Katrina Holden Bronson (who also wrote the unbalanced script) seems to have spent more energy assembling the overbearing soundtrack than expanding on her characters' fractured relationships. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyMark Olsen
Traub does her plucky best, coming off as part Judy Blume heroine, part post-WB hipster, and she provides the film with its few and infrequent moments of emotional truth. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
In the parlance of "The Player," Katrina Holden Bronson's Daltry Calhoun would be pitched as "Because of Winn-Dixie" meets "Napoleon Dynamite," and that is definitely not a good thing. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
A weird, unpleasant little movie. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Daltry Calhoun's saving grace comes in the form of a snappy compilation soundtrack that spans from Johnny Cash to Serge Gainsbourg, a feat of all-inclusiveness that renders the film a moot point at best. Read full review
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