This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I love this movie! I can probably add it to my all-time favorite movies list. I think it's brilliant.

I'm giving this four stars based on the incredible performances, some great lines, and the soundtrack.

With that being said, this movie felt like a chore to me. I haven't read the book but the story seems great. Familiar, but great and they cast it well. As far as the scope of the film, a lot of it felt very pretentious to me and I was kind of annoyed but some scenes really made up for it.

Defines quirky.

I remember watching this in middle school and I thought it was so clever. " I need high ceilings" "I love when mothers sleeping, its almost like shes dead, its so peaceful" I just found it all so lovely. The love affairs and all.

It's just sloppily all over the place. Too many things were happening at once, so there was no real emotional centre. This is a shame because the cast is very talented.

With unclear goals and unlikable characters, Running With Scissors is a great example of a film that thinks that it's so much better than it actually is

2 out of 5 (C)

dumb

Awful pacing, underdeveloped characters with only the barest resemblance to actual human beings, overreliance on the soundtrack, several overwrought montages, and a total lack of direction combine to make this a really unfortunate adaptation of a memoir that was frankly never very good to begin with.

It doesn't work for a second. One of those killer cast, massive flop concoctions that comes down the pike it seems at least once a year. These people are not interesting, they are dirty and off putting.