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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
[Lillard's] performance dominates the film, and he does a subtle, tricky job of being both an obnoxious punk and a kid in search of his direction in life. He's very good.
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75
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New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s.
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75
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Entertainment Weekly
For a while, angry young Stevo (Lillard) turns his quest for total anarchy into a grungy, giddy, randomly violent rave. Then reality creeps up and, well, it bites.
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63
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San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
It's handsome filmmaking that doesn't surface until the final 25 minutes during which Stevo and company's sense of marginalization achieves the palpable, emotional import that's more expressive than anything its characters' have to bitch about.
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63
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
The film has an undeniable energy, and, at times, it works as light entertainment, but there is a problem. The central character is consistently aggravating.
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60
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Lillard, who played the squirrelly Stuart in "Scream," brings a mischievous sense of humor and an easygoing charm to his potentially unsympathetic character.
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50
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Likable for its outlandishness, less so when it shows a self-important streak.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
So forced and contrived in delivery that it's tedious. That's not good when the intention is to be audacious.
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40
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Ultimately, SLC Punk! doesn't have enough dimension to maintain dramatic interest.
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38
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Though Lillard's excitable tone keeps promising wild comic adventures, the sequences are uniformly flat and humour-free.
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