Dave’s review published on Letterboxd:
Writer-Director Burr Steers blasts into the indie scene with this biting, richly-textured drama that features the single best performance by a teenager I’ve seen since the early works of Maguire, DiCaprio, and Wood. Kieran Culkin is a marvel to behold as a modern day Holden Caulfield growing out of a truly dysfunctional family that includes bitter, ailing mother (Susan Sarandon), absent, mentally ill father (Bill Pullman, nicely underplaying it here), and arrogant, distant brother (Ryan Phillippe).
This brilliant cast, which also includes a great Jeff Goldblum, Amanda Peet and a radiant Claire Danes, underscores Steers’ hilariously witty script, featuring some of the most enlightening conversations I’ve heard in a long while.