An earnest effort that nonetheless relies too heavily on gimmicks.

| Mar 3, 2020

The attempts at authentic stoner dialogue soon become tedious, with too little plot or character development grounding the inanity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2019

Lending the film considerable ballast is an affecting performance by Sunny Suljic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2019

Mid90s is alive to the debauchery and obnoxiousness of teenagers, but also to their warmth and loyalty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2019

Mid90s feels like a male retort to Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird or Crystal Moselle's Skate Kitchen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2019

Hill has come up with an accomplished and watchable film in this style, nearly a pastiche...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2019

Mid90s cares less about making you laugh than enveloping you in the moment, even when the moments consist of nothing more than killed time - daft small talk, the lazy throb of hip hop, the therapeutic purr and slap of skateboard wheels on concrete.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2019

The dingy cinematography and abrasive score scream authenticity, but Mid90s hits every last beat of the coming-of-age movie... Mostly the film strives desperately for effect over logic.

| Apr 10, 2019

It's not perfect but Hill captures the anger, pain, bliss, sadness, thrill and confusion of growing up so beautifully that the abrupt 84-minute running time leaves you feeling bereft.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2019

Hill captures the eternally strange cultural place of skateboarding - marginal even while inspiring high-gloss ad campaigns, practised in derelict urban spaces.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2019

The dramatic third act is a tad Hollywood, but this is a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2019

mid90s is funny, observant and true. If the Wu Tang Clan and Ren & Stimpy references don't resonate, the portrait of finding your people and them schooling you in the world will.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2019

Mid90s, the first feature directed by actor Jonah Hill, is, in many ways, a remarkable debut.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2019

Truly outstanding.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 21, 2019

If Superbad launched an entire subgenre that mocks male insecurity, Mid90s reveals, almost tenderly, the devastation of trying to hide it.

| Nov 5, 2018

The film has a sketchbook quality, but Hill does something very difficult: he sustains the alternation of intense claustrophobia and release.

| Oct 30, 2018

The drama is heartfelt but thin; despite some sharp and swift dialogue, the characters are bound to a defining trait or two, and there's little sense of style to lift the action past obvious intentions.

| Oct 29, 2018

The issue is that I'm not entirely certain Hill has any concept of what it is he's showing or why it is so disconcerting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 27, 2018

It's hard to tell if Hill is boldly refusing to adopt a point of view regarding dysfunction and its discontents, or if he just isn't quite sure what to make of it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2018

For most of the ride, Mid90s feels like an accurate time capsule - and a relatable journey even if you've never been on a skateboard in your life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2018