Bland and tepid, the passage of time will only reiterate that quirky scenarios don't provide the necessary backbone for a solid coming of age narrative.

| Jul 25, 2019

A sweet junket into the land of the new agers, and youth that refuses to grow old.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 23, 2012

A strong cast and the sweet and simple nature of the script (based on the novel by Mark Poirier) makes Goats a charming little indie tale worth the viewing.

| Original Score: 6.2/10 | Aug 16, 2012

A movie that isn't terrible, but--apart from the goat fixation and Duchovny's zonked-out turn--doesn't offer much that hasn't been done elsewhere, and often better.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 14, 2012

A capable cast can't elevate this mediocre coming-of-age comedy.

| Aug 13, 2012

This is a very effecting drama about a teenage boy buffeted by starkly contrasting role models from the adult world.

| Original Score: 7 | Aug 11, 2012

Nibbles on a lot of stuff it never gets around to digesting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2012

If I were Holden Caulfield, I might call it lousy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 10, 2012

The actors struggle to seem off-handed, much as the script does. Goats needs to be more goat-like in every way - unbridled, untamed, randy - and it never is.

| Aug 10, 2012

If Mr. Neil had the tonal mastery of Wes Anderson, "Goats" could have been so much more than an episodic sequence of whimsical little psychodramas.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 9, 2012

"Goats" is just b-a-a-a-aad.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 9, 2012

Pretty, confused and thrilling to analyze and revisit, Goats is just like adolescence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2012

Christopher Neil's film is more location-scouted and photographed than directed and acted.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 9, 2012

[The] solid cast ... can't make the film feel like anything more than a meander through the familiar-feeling angst of a privileged teenager.

| Original Score: C | Aug 9, 2012

... a stubborn, mangy, tangled-haired mutt of a movie -- one that could have used a little more guidance and construction and a little less free-range 'quirkiness.'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2012

Loses the flavor of the journey.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 8, 2012

Mellow, but very much a work in progress, Goats has a bland but overcrowded menu that could benefit from a little feta.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 8, 2012

Despite the ever-escalating cost of private education, there are still some who feel that there's no character more empathetic than a boarding school lad.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 7, 2012

Goats may cover an all-too-familiar terrain, but at least it grazes it well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2012

Christopher Neil directs with a mechanical blandness made more tedious still by a score of gentle guitar strumming so aggravatingly benign it might inspire you to partake in one of Wendy's climactic, cathartic primal screams.

| Aug 7, 2012