Metroland

Lions Gate Films | Release Date: April 9, 1999

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53	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews

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Lisa Alspector

This fairly serious meditation on conventionality and monogamy blames his ennui on external forces, remaining adolescent even when it suggests its hero has grown up. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Its strongest assets, aside from a performance by Ms. Watson that pierces through the nonsense, are Mark Knopfler's fine, expressive score and the attractiveness of its star. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

As a tasteful take on a minor novel, Metroland is genteel enough, but it lacks the urgency and scope of a must-see movie. [07 May 1999]

William Arnold

Conceptually, the film is unique - it's a kind of nostalgia movie within a nostalgia movie. [16 Apr 1999]

Tom Meek

The sexually charged undercurrent of Mertoland promises something dark, disturbing or at least provocative, but as the characters reach their defining moments, it's the plot that yields to the ordinary. Read full review

Ester Pan

Too bad the film ultimately fails to explore [provocative questions], falling instead to cliches. Read full review

Susan Wloszczyna

Bale tends to be overwrought and self-conscious as he wrestles with his demons, here in both '60s flashbacks (the liveliest segment) and in the 1977 present, in which punk clubs and easy women represent temptation. [09 Apr 1999]

Stephen Hunter

The movie is bittersweet, adult, with a fair eye toward men's eternal spirit of the infantile, and knowing. Possibly it's too slick, but in some awkward way it sums up the true essence of adult life, which is just sort of getting along without doing too much harm. [30 Apr 1999]

Jami Bernard

Bale fails to make Chris a character compelling enough to stand out from that heavy dose of '70s clothes and hair.