My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
GKIDS | Release Date: April 14, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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IndieWireEric KohnSep 17, 2016
Not every moment stimulates a belly laugh, but that’s part of the point. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea is more thoughtful than meets the eye, a cockeyed ode to what it feels like when nobody takes you seriously. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneOct 6, 2016
The film buzzes with hand-drawn creativity that's precious in both the pop-cultural and material senses. Read full review
85
TheWrapDave WhiteApr 14, 2017
Layered images, un-erased pencil strokes, odd color blocking, jagged edges, heavy lines, painted frames with visible brush strokes, juxtapositions of marker, crayon, and charcoal, collage techniques, photographic effects, a set of psychedelic human lungs: this is is low-budget ambition firing on all cylinders. Read full review
80
Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyApr 12, 2017
Sinking Into the Sea is fun, but an hour of just Rudolph and Watts in the recording studio would be no less buoyant. Read full review
80
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 17, 2016
At a tight 72 minutes, the film is a quick and dazzling burst of pleasure, pulling together so many opposing visuals, ideas and genres and coming up with something dazzling as a result. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 17, 2016
A sweetly subversive dig at the constricting codes of teen hierarchies, the sheep-like mentality of youth and the failures of the education system. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleAshley MorenoApr 26, 2017
The film feels like the spirit of a zine come alive – with a few over-the-top, Muppet-esque explosions. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMay 4, 2017
It’s crazy and ridiculous at times. But I can’t help agreeing with Assaf, who observes, of his companions’ rescue plans, “I like it. It has the logic of a dream.” Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Nathalie AtkinsonApr 13, 2017
The wry observations of precocious pal Mary (Lena Dunham) and fierce Lunch Lady Lorraine (Susan Sarandon as a gruff optimist) make for a charming – and occasionally gruesome – disaster movie. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Apr 12, 2017
This handmade approach is a big part of the film’s DIY charm. It’s also a perfect match for the story, which seems to have been pulled, too, from the messy locker of teen-boy imagination. Read full review
75
The Film StageJohn FinkSep 17, 2016
Writer/director Dash Shaw’s hand-drawn picture is fun and slight without overstaying its welcome. It never runs out of energy and is constantly in a state of innovation and surprise. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 13, 2017
As externalized visions of high school hellishness go, Shaw’s doesn’t always translate into the most cohesively entertaining of mash-ups, but his techniques are attention-grabbers. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyApr 13, 2017
An eccentric and lively animated fantasy. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 17, 2016
My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea is slight and uneven, but its quirky, handmade aesthetic nicely conveys its characters’ adolescent vulnerability and restless spirit. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJordan RuimySep 17, 2016
Wildly bizarre and imaginatively alluring, if not occasionally slight, the animated movie, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, is an engaging surrealist take on the disaster movie. Read full review
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Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 3, 2017
According to the closing credits, My Entire High School was six years in the making and is clearly something that Shaw felt he had to get out of his system with his feature film-directing debut. Mission accomplished, and very stylishly, too. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comVikram MurthiApr 14, 2017
It takes its stylistic cues from a variety of sources, including German expressionism (particularly the frequent silhouettes) and "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghApr 27, 2017
Doesn’t plumb the depths of adolescent emotions and high-school politics so much as skims the surface in a psychedelic dinghy. Read full review
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VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 17, 2016
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea feels like a first draft, the one that needed to be written before the second draft added flesh and blood. Read full review
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