Toe to Toe
Strand Releasing | Release Date: February 26, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
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Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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90
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Ms. Abt provides an unusually honest, compassionate and challenging view of contemporary youth, neither sugarcoated nor prurient. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
For good stretches, Toe to Toe has an engaging frankness about youthful liberty as both a weighty armor and a dangerously alluring escape hatch. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Resourceful, if occasionally forced, teen melodrama. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineSteve Ramos
Moving and more ambitious than a CW serial drama or the long-ago ABC After School Specials because its honesty outweighs its occasionally trite dialogue and sometimes false scenes. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
The performances are top-notch and occasionally moving, but Abt nearly smothers it all with some embarrassing coming-of-age teen-angst false notes, plus clichéd Ivy League ambitions, a cartoonishly neglectful mother, STDs, unfair expulsion, martyrdom for both the rich and poor, and a non-reciprocal lesbian crush. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
It’s a shame that Toe to Toe adheres so stridently to Indiewood clichés. Read full review
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