What The Myth of the American Sleepover loses in modulation it certainly makes up for in good intentions.

| Mar 31, 2022

Mitchell has successfully created an admirable indie effort which truly presents the paradox of youth -- sexual awakening coupled with crippling insecurity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2019

Sleepover is evocative but a little underwhelming.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2016

It's an unsentimental debut of some promise and it has the ring of truth.

| Sep 3, 2012

Nicely acted, beautifully shot, ultimately disappointing ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2012

Writer/director David Robert Mitchell's sweet, sexless drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2012

David Robert Mitchell's moodily magical first feature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2012

A likeable cast of unknowns wriggle convincingly through the awkwardness of late adolescence in first-time director David Robert Mitchell's low-key indie drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2012

Soulful, heartening and - in its final scene - heartbreaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2012

Beautifully shot, nostalgia-fuelled teen drama that plays out in dreamlike fashion and is content to unfold at its own unhurried pace ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2012

There's a lot to like here - not least disarmingly natural performances from the mostly non-professional actors.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2012

The Myth of the American Sleepover is a minor entry into the genre, but it more than adequately captures that heartbreaking time we all once shared, and leaves us with that feeling of longing ... we still have for it today.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 19, 2011

I remember 15. It was a mess. Mitchell's movie serenely amplifies the mess.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2011

David Robert Mitchell's impressive if derivative debut doesn't delve so much into a myth as a mini-genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2011

The Myth of the American Sleepover is an indie movie-lover's dream, one of those rare instances where a lack of budget and experience is trumped by heartfelt vision, natural talent and amateur enthusiasm.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 5, 2011

The narcoleptic, resigned tone that dominates The Myth of the American Sleepover doesn't make us regret what we've lost. It mostly implies that being young is a major bummer.

| Original Score: 39/100 | Aug 4, 2011

Some of Mitchell's scenes are poignant and insightful, some are a bit too twee (cue the next Magnetic Fields tune), but as far as first-time efforts go, this Michigan-based indie mostly impresses.

| Original Score: B | Aug 2, 2011

A poignant, impressionistically sweet coming-of-age drama

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 2, 2011

Dodging easy melodrama and preferring to focus on the little moments that stay with us in our memories through the years, the picture's low-key indelibility sneaks up on the audience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2011

Both fresh and familiar,. . .[t]he irony of spending time with normal kids. . .played by a personable, age-appropriate, sweetly charming cast . . . is they are a bit bland.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 31, 2011