Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

High school drama tale is too edgy for young teens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2010

O humor melanclico estabelecido pelo estreante Glatzer funciona na maior parte do tempo, sendo beneficiado ainda pela impecvel performance de Coogan.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2009

An epic dramedy of teenage angst that is too much drama and not enough comedy for Steve Coogan's good.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 15, 2009

The film opens chaotically, perhaps randomly, and it never finds its proper footing. Most movies take their sweet time to reveal incompetence. What Goes Up boldly advertises it within the first 60 seconds.

| Original Score: D | Jun 10, 2009

About as cruddy as a cruddy little indie can get, especially given a cast that should've known better.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 5, 2009

Director and co-writer Jonathan Glatzer handles his talented cast well, and the movie is dark, droll and sentimental in roughly the correct proportions.

| Jun 5, 2009

I never know quite what they were saying about heroism and then there are all these unanswered questions.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2009

The film really struggles to find its voice and to find purpose and meaning.

| Jun 1, 2009

Has a charismatic performance by Steve Coogan, but that's not nearly enough to save it from drowning from its bland, awkward and lazy screenplay that fails to generate any real laughs or palpable dramatic tension.

| Original Score: 4.0/10 | May 31, 2009

A rambling, self-serious and chronically unfocused look at '80s-era small town America and the socio-psychological anguish of disaffected youth.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 29, 2009

[Director] Glatzer aims to wring laughter out of this desperation but succeeds only in producing a series of contrived characters and situations that make The Breakfast Club look like an unfiltered documentary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2009

An unusually subdued Coogan does his best, but this is the kind of pretentious nonsense he usually satirizes.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 29, 2009

Mr. Coogan doesn't seem altogether comfortable with his part, which, like the story, undergoes a number of unconvincing changes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2009

Such a confused, convoluted, odd piece of cinema that I almost recommend seeing it just because it is so very unusual.

| May 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2009

a mess of a movie

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 28, 2009

While it's often as amateurish as it is assured, Glatzer and writer Robert Lawson want to convey so much that the sheer breadth of the movie means they hit a few of their targets.

| Original Score: C+ | May 28, 2009