| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

In the hands of cinematographic mastermind Christopher Doyle, teenage spats, telephone calls and coasting skateboarders are infused with lyricism and dreaminess.

| Oct 18, 2008

It's breathtaking, heartbreaking, tragic, gorgeous, and true all at the same time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

[An] intriguing, mind-altering skateboard elegy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2008

Van Sant's ... adoration of uncommunicative kids with limited vocabularies and awesome hair is beginning to wear a little thin.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

Gus Van Sant's capper to a trilogy of experiments in elliptical narrative and lyrical structure is a masterful triumph of art, craft and empathy for the complicatedness of being a real teenager.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Regarding Paranoid Park as an elongated short rather than a feature helps a bit, because it's a miniature in spirit -- a small-format portrait of psychic malaise that just happens to last 84 minutes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Paranoid Park becomes a portrait of the skate punk as repressed personality. The movie doesn't really go anywhere as a story, it simply unfolds.

| Original Score: B | Mar 21, 2008

Intriguing and obliquely involving.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Alex goes to school, has a girlfriend, eats junk food ... and is almost as much of a zombie as anything George A. Romero has ever conjured up. Only less appealing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 20, 2008

Elephant said much more about teenagers and said it better.

| Mar 20, 2008

Even something as modest as Paranoid Park manages to reflect Van Sant's greatest strengths as an artist: his seemingly limitless fluency with his chosen medium and his willingness to tell even the oldest stories in bold new ways.

| Mar 20, 2008

Yet another movie about misunderstood teenage skateboarders.

Full Review | Mar 17, 2008

This isn't mallrat Crime and Punishment; it's Accident and Inertia, structured by Alex's attempt to capture his feelings in a journal.(He's more verbose than introspective.)

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 15, 2008

For some of the way, it seems like a kind of skateboard whodunit. Soon enough, we understand it's much more than that. And by then, we know we're in for a ride to remember.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 14, 2008

Youth and death meet again in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, a gorgeously stark, mesmerizingly elliptical story told in the same lyrical-prosaic style that has characterized his latest films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2008

It's always exciting when a film that plays with cinematic language can squeeze in among the flotsam and jetsam of repetitive mediocrity.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 14, 2008

Paranoid Park, the new Gus Van Sant movie, is slight but fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2008

In the space of 78 minutes, Mr. Van Sant and his cinematographer, the peerless Christopher Doyle, manage to suffuse that state with haunting sadness, ubiquitous danger, pulsing power and flickers of hope.

| Mar 14, 2008