The tension underneath the movie is the friction between Bogosian’s tense urban sensibility and Linklater’s relaxed, generous style.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2022

Suburbia is dark as hell- much darker, in fact, that I remembered it being, having not watched it since it was new (25th anniversary.)

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 11, 2022

Effortlessly funny, Linklater's film is also devastating and spooky in its dead-on rendering of middle-class, Middle America nothingness.

| Oct 25, 2019

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Linklater is collaborating with a certified grown-up who also happens to be the screenwriting equivalent of a shock-jock; laid-back bong-hits have been supplanted by endless black-comic cruelty and a lot of sociocultural pissing and moaning.

| Sep 1, 2009

This brooding comedy fails to blend the sensibilities of two artists, director Richard Linklater and writer Eric Bogosian, which couldn't have been more different--the only thing they share together is a concern with youth's discontent.

| Original Score: C | Feb 9, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 13, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

Hard-edged drama about some soulless twentysomethings.

| Aug 26, 2002

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Linklater's finessing of acting ensembles is very proficient -- again.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000