| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Well-acted but ultimately bland...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 15, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Oct 19, 2004

Stateside has some lopsided storytelling techniques, but emotionally it will get you home.

| Aug 8, 2004

Simples e sensvel, o filme traz uma atuao estupenda de Rachael Leigh Cook.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2004

With a better cast than it deserves and a script from which it deserved better, the film is pleasant where it should be rowdy, quaint where it should be refreshing, and altogether far less daring than it thinks it is.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 8, 2004

It's as though the actors showed up on the set, picked their lines out of a hat, than spoke them in no particluar order.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 28, 2004

The lovers' nonexistent chemistry doesn't generate enough heat to light a match.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 27, 2004

It felt authentic ...

Full Review | May 24, 2004

[L]ike scenes cut from another, far better film...

| May 23, 2004

Everything an independent film should be: daring, experimental, character-driven and thoroughly entertaining.

| Original Score: B+ | May 23, 2004

Suffers from a lack of narrative cohesion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 23, 2004

It's so unexpected and unpredictable and so full of tiny grace notes that its ultimate collapse seems almost irrelevant.

| May 22, 2004

Turns out to be not so much a movie about a Kwazy Person as it is about a Stoopid Person.

| May 22, 2004

The film is a head-on collision of spare parts from different genres, none of which work separately or as a collective whole.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 21, 2004

The two leads don't have any chemistry, especially the flat, emotionless Tucker.

| Original Score: .5/4 | May 21, 2004

[Stateside] is freighted with far more serious issues than most movies of its kind but neglects or glosses over most of them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2004

A genuinely affecting love story told without a trace of affect.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2004

Plays like a movie of the week.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2004

Writer-director Reverge Anselmo handles sensitive issues not with kid gloves, but with a metaphorical baseball mitt, fumbling with tone and obviously laboring to force quirks upon characters and situations.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 21, 2004