Coming-of-age comedy with some sex.

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

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

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

A small, charming indie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2002

In every respect, director Gary Winick has served up a delectable, entertaining film.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2002

One of the smartest, most affecting movies of the year.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2002

A funny, fearless, poignant, spectacular performance.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2002

[D]emonstrate a certain affinity for the intimate observation of moral waywardness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2002

Tadpole will delight audiences for its comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2002

Tadpole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films: Young is cool, and too young is too cool.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 26, 2002

Most folks with a real stake in the American sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 26, 2002

A movie that gets by on charm even when it's tippytoeing in taboo territory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2002

Although it's short, Tadpole has a long-lasting effect.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2002

Tadpole was written in wisps and watery double-entendres by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller, and the movie is so benign that its proceedings are beside the point.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 26, 2002

Tadpole is smart and sophisticated entertainment, whatever its shortcomings, and it deserves to be encouraged.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 26, 2002

The film has other problems than credibility. It ends with unseemly haste, it underlines its points too obviously, and its camera moves when it should be still.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 26, 2002

It's fun, wispy, wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom.

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2002

In the hands of most other actors, Oscar would come off as a pretentious prig. Stanford makes him seem pathetically, comically, charmingly real.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2002

A wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a Mrs. Robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women.

| Jul 25, 2002

Tadpole would be a surprise hit with any audience anywhere that still cares about character development, good acting, careful, literate scriptwriting and stylish filmmaking on a shoestring.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2002