| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

unpretentiously entertains

| Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2011

Coming-of-age comedy with some sex.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

It's a flawed but satisfying movie with a great leading man, and a slew of great supporting performances.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Oscar's romantic plight plays well for subtle pathos in addition to laughs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2003

In a summer wrought with action adventures and dramatic epics, it's a refreshing change to trust in the teachings and maturity of a 15-year-old.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

The worst movie of 2002: 'Any film with such a formulaic foundation...faces the burden of succeeding in spite of it, yet Tadpole just dumbly offers it back up to us.'

| Original Score: F | Mar 19, 2003

Like a final project from a student film class, it has a raw and unsophisticated look...But that might be a good thing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The film might have been more satisfying if it had, in fact, been fleshed out a little more instead of going for easy smiles.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 16, 2003

The film pivots entirely on Aaron Stanford's performance, and he is super.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2002

A real step forward for the digital video revolution.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: A | Sep 18, 2002

Tadpole has more than its share of problems, true, but they are problems that can be borne.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2002

It lacks the lushly romantic sensibility that made Woody Allen's similarly themed (and unfortunately prophetic) Manhattan seem plausible.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 23, 2002

While this is no Harold and Maude -- one of the best films about an older woman and younger man -- Tadpole has an irresistible charm.

| Aug 23, 2002

Short and sweet, but also more than anything else slight... Tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations.

| Original Score: C | Aug 22, 2002