Writer Todd Stephens and director David Moreton give us the inside scoop, live and direct, from Eric's heart.

| May 28, 2020

Writer Todd Stephens and director David Moreton show a gift for solid, emotionally realistic storytelling in a sensitive -- if racy -- coming-of-age tale.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2020

The actors mainly come across as movie types rather than characters, and despite the obvious sincerity of the project, deja vu seems written into the conception.

| May 28, 2020

It'll resonate with anyone who remembers the awkwardness and elation of their first sexual experiences, because it captures those experiences better and more honestly than practically any other film.

| May 28, 2020

A perceptive, accomplished seriocomedy, "Edge of Seventeen" feels like a gay-p.o.v. version of the deft early-to-mid-'80s John Hughes teen pics, even revisiting their era for trendy (but well-deployed) nostalgia value

| Jul 8, 2008

Edge of Seventeen not only captures Eric's painful struggle of sexual identity, but it's also a swell time capsule of musical and fashion rebellion in the Reagan era.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

My hope for Eric is not merely that he grows comfortable with his sexuality, but that he becomes a more interesting conversationalist, hopefully before I see him in another movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A more seasoned director could blend all those moods and objectives, but Moreton seems to stop and start each time he shifts moods.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[T]he film's ending in that disco is a bit too patly upbeat. But these are minor flaws in a movie that captures a small slice of 1980's middle-class Middle-American life just about perfectly.

| Jan 1, 2000

It takes its tone of mournful defiance from Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy," that great, quavery ode to the pain of liberation.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 30, 1999