Kids in America
Launchpad Releasing LLC | Release Date: October 21, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Once in a blue moon a movie escapes the shackles of its genre and does what it really wants to do. Kids in America is a movie like that. It breaks out of Hollywood jail. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Overall, though, you get the exhausting feeling that Stolberg is desperately trying to prove how cool he is. And didn't you see enough of that in high school? Read full review
40
Village VoiceDrew Tillman
Nicole Richie loyalists are sure to be confounded (along with the rest of us) by Kids in America, the weirdly anti-Bush high school "satire" that is also Richie's big-screen debut. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverMelissa Levine
Has its heart in the right place, but its head seems to be lost in a swirling maelstrom of teen movies that have come before. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyTim Grierson
A trite teen comedy burdened with lofty aspirations of rallying adolescent audiences to political action. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin Chang
Josh Stolberg launches a scalding attack on the stodgy conservatism of the American public school system, only to end up stacking the deck in egregiously smirky and simple-minded ways. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Well-meaning but woefully unconvincing. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Because Kids in America can't decide whether it wants to be a stock teenage comedy or something more, it ends up stranded in the middle of nowhere. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Filmmaker Josh Stolberg claims to have been inspired by real-life events, but mostly he ineptly rips off other movies and wastes a cast that includes Rosanna Arquette, Adam Arkin and Elizabeth Perkins. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineAngel Cohn
The cast is eclectic and talented, but their roles are two-dimensional and the is-it-or-isn't-it-satirical? tone ensures that their performances never seem properly pitched. Read full review
30
Washington PostJennifer Frey
Short on real teenage angst and emotion, the film is long on caricatures. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
A comedy so inane and tedious that it buries its premise and its various worthy points under too many arch and improbable shenanigans and endless dialogue, much of it seriously under-inspired. Read full review
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