A fun coming-of-age story that feels all the adolescent summer feels... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 19, 2022

A welcome addition to films exploring complex teen girl protagonists.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 22, 2019

What Summer '03 teaches its audience is that control is an illusion. Tying into the realism of the production is another lesson: not every interaction or human connection has to have a fairytale ending.

| Nov 2, 2018

Hilarious, touching, bittersweet, and unabashedly honest, Summer '03 is a breakout film for writer/director Becca Gleason.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 2, 2018

Becca Gleason has created something wonderful and extremely relatable that reaches to the core of the memories of adolescence for many women and for that, I thank you.

| Original Score: 8.5 | Oct 7, 2018

Is this a black comedy à la Todd Solondz? Or a quirky teen drama with a dash of girl power? All in all, it's too glib, too zany, too half-hearted to be a solid example of either.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 3, 2018

Warm, wise and wonderful. Funny, witty and heartfelt. Joey King gives the best performance of her career!

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 3, 2018

Audiences will be divided on some parts of the story, especially the romantic plot between Jamie and Luke, but for Gleason's talents alone as a storyteller and director, it's worth giving the film a shot.

| Oct 3, 2018

...King's charismatic turn deserved much, much better material.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 3, 2018

Sexual themes, teen partying in coming-of-age comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2018

Though the film's screwball energy keeps things relatively sunny, neither Gleason nor King fail to take the central protagonist's emotions seriously.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2018

Every time Gleason's screenplay shifts away from Jamie... the movie seems to enter an entirely different mode.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 28, 2018

It never transcends its teen movie origins to become something more.

| Sep 28, 2018

A missed opportunity of a filmmaking debut.

| Sep 27, 2018

Summer '03 is a solid feature debut whose missteps are forgivable because of the strength and intelligence of the main character.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2018

Vacant in emotion and in cinematic perspective, the movie looks back 15 years but struggles to make an impression longer than 15 minutes.

| Sep 27, 2018

A charming little feel-good indie. Summer '03 allows Joey King to give the performance she's always had in her.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2018

Captures the endless summer vibe with ease, only struggling when it comes time to address the severity of bad decisions, with Gleeson giving in to hysterics too easily.

| Original Score: C | Sep 27, 2018

Though not always convincing, it's well paced and adequately entertaining, and it's effective in taking a light-hearted look at some difficult issues.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2018

Writer-director Becca Gleason's meandering tone and thoughtless lead characters make the film hard to engage with as it tries to provoke nervous laughter with jaggedly bitter humour.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 26, 2018