One of the best films ever made about the high school experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

American Teen succeeds in being exactly as crisp, entertaining, and useless as a romantic comedy.

| Aug 21, 2017

This is not compelling film making; it just makes you hope that these kids will lighten up and learn to enjoy life.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 6, 2015

The presence of a film crew may have encouraged drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2012

It keeps assuring us that all is basically well.

| Aug 15, 2011

It pains me to say it, but as far as I can see it's an extended and slightly better crafted example of those fake 'reality 온라인카지노추천' shows.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 13, 2011

An intriguing look -- alternately funny and heartbreaking -- inside the heads of today's teens.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2009

In contrast to other recent documentaries about coming of age in America, American Teen seems somewhat simplistic, perhaps naive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2009

An addictive documentary that'll have you cheering and crying, then waiting for the director to jump out from behind your sofa and say it was all a big joke.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 7, 2009

Funny and fresh, it won't break boundaries but it will make anyone thankful for growing up.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2009

Anyone who doesn't like it can stay behind after class.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2009

The tears and laughter are genuine enough, but Berstein's orchestrations make her less of a fly on the wall than a fly in the ointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2009

Although elements of the movie appear stage managed it is still a very watchable document of everyday lives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2009

This absorbing doc is a funny, heartbreaking reminder that we're all wounded survivors of the original war zone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2009

Compelling but not especially insightful, this is like watching nine months worth of reality 온라인카지노추천 in an hour and a half. Parental discretion is advised: if you have teens, this won't cheer you up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009

Despite its flashy approach, American Teen remains emotionally involving because of the lives on show. You will care about these people, even if you suspect the director doesn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009

It's a lightly amusing film but it's also an unchallenging one which reinforces presumptions about kids rather than surprising with new insights. It floats in the shallow end of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2009

The documentary curriculum is sex, gossip and self-pity. Not exactly original, but disturbingly true.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009

This film was for me marred by the persistent suspicion that the director wasn't being entirely straight with us.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2009

What makes American Teen so compelling is the way the four are presented. At first they seem like stock stereotypes, but over the course of the movie, we gain a powerful insight into what makes them tick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2009