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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt's a film where the feelings and experiences of young people are highly specific in detail, yet fundamentally universal and timeless.
- 80MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeIt looks more like your teenage world than such films generally allow, and it's not pretty. It's beautiful.
- 75Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierSlant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierThroughout this American Graffiti-like Circadian shuffle, we can sense these characters coming to grips with human realities that they dare not vocalize.
- Mitchell still manages to plant a flag on this well-trodden territory by steering more toward drama than comedy, though he scores points on both fronts. Where he exceeds those films are sensual visuals that recapture summertime adolescence in all its vivacity.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe constant presence of music - think "Dazed and Confused," with the Magnetic Fields swapped in for Foghat - nails both the teenage fantasy of living life to a personal soundtrack, and a high-schooler's heightened hunger to experience everything all at once.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe Myth of the American Sleepover has fresh, lovely moments, but it could have used more psychological heft.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfSwaddled with a lacquer of nostalgia that passes for cultural insight, this one-night-in-sweatpants drama will make you yearn for a moratorium on teen movies-at least ones so aggressively dewy-eyed.
- 50VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonA movie that tries and fails to channel the indelibly dreamy mood of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides." Well-intentioned but derivative and only intermittently engaging, the suburban Michigan-set indie hits at least as many false notes as true ones.