The only bombing taking place here is inside the chests of the audience.

| Original Score: 15/20 | Dec 9, 2024

It may have some technical flaws - weird cuts, awkward camera movements - but they're not enough to spoil the good acting and entertaining script. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2022

Overall it's clever, wise, sometimes funny, and always sweet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2021

This wry, knowing comedy is a terrific writing-directing debut for 24-year-old actor Cooper Raiff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2021

Raiff deserves all the credit he's getting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2021

If you've ever been homesick or have children who have suffered, it will doubtless strike a chord.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 2021

A funny, tender treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 2021

Freshman Year, the debut feature from writer, director and lead, Cooper Raiff, shows promise with a distinctive perspective on the college/uni experience, but ultimately falls back on disappointing romcom clichés.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2021

These two make Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, from the Before movies, seem like Rhodes scholars, and a lot less fragile too.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2021

Life can be desperately embarrassing in your first year at university when you are trying out new identities and personalities. This film replicates that agonising discomfort.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2021

There's no film that captures the bizarre, funny, and deeply awkward experience of life at university better than Shithouse.

| Aug 28, 2021

A not-always predictable outing that enjoys removing the sugar coating so many of these genre efforts adhere to.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 6, 2021

There is a specificity to everything on display here that marks it as something personal, and that authenticity is bracing.

| Jun 5, 2021

It's a poor title for this film, as it makes a sensitive tale about the college experience sound like a vulgar raunchfest whose script was deemed too lowbrow even by Adam Sandler.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2021

Shaggy, college-set, coming-of-age comedy/drama starring an interesting, unconventional lead. (Blu-ray highlight: Cooper Raiff's hour-long short film 'Madeline and Cooper').

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2021

Shithouse is just the kind of film that I resonate with and I am thankful that it exists.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 25, 2021

A small indie gem. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2021

The title certainly does not convey how actually sweet and nuanced this college-level character drama really is.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 28, 2021

The way the characters in the film talk and act is ... so real that it sometimes gets to be hard to watch ...

| Jan 27, 2021

With the exception of an unnecessary and overly neat epilogue, Shithouse is an unforced, patient and unpredictable first film.

| Jan 13, 2021