A roughly chronological jumble of archival footage, unconvincing period reenactments, gauzy voice-overs, and half-baked ideas that makes one yearn for the stolid dullness of a History Channel documentary.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 22, 2014

Deftly weaves together various media in a way that breathes its own youthful, stream-of-conscious life into the documentary genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 22, 2014

There's no "there" there in "Teenage," a meandering mess of a documentary that has the feel of a bloated, inchoate term paper.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 8, 2014

If by the end, a clear definition of the teenager hasn't emerged, that's cool. Teenagers don't know what they are either.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2014

Wolf's sympathy for youth movements compensates for the distraction of the new scenes, and the fascinating old footage seals the deal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2014

If Teenage delivers a sweeping generalization or two (or three) ... Wolf's documentary makes up for it with footage that's just too good to be ignored.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2014

The archival footage is mesmerizing stuff, articulately edited by Joe Beshenkovsky.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2014

Director Matt Wolf uses startling archival footage to capture the rise of pre-Elvis youth culture as the defining surge of the 20th century.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 21, 2014

As Wolf traces youth culture from 1904 through the atomic blasts ending World War II - from factory drudges to sacrificed soldiers - he gives form to a ghost in the machine of the modern nation.

| Mar 20, 2014

It botches itself out of its own epic ambitions, an aesthetic slickness that seems to contradict, if not betray, its subject matter, and a maddeningly subdued critical spirit.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2014

It settles for interesting when it might have been insightful.

| Mar 14, 2014

Despite its polemical weakness, Teenage is an enveloping experience, a reminder of history's power in shaping what appear to be cultural constants.

| Mar 13, 2014

Teenage is about uniting adolescents of different eras and cultures into one sweeping story about kids paying for their parents' whims.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 13, 2014

Like adolescence itself, Teenage is educational, scattered, and over much too quickly.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 13, 2014

The film makes its point ingeniously.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2014

The engrossing, sometimes frustrating cine-essay Teenage offers occasional moments of thrilling revelation ...

| Mar 11, 2014

A delightful and substantial provocation, and something of a cheat.

| Mar 10, 2014

[Director Matt Wolf] has transformed Jon Savage's book into a visionary cinematic statement.

| Feb 26, 2014

The authentic, first-person narration may represent only voices from Germany, Britain and the US but, even so, the scope is over ambitious.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2014

The film stitches together an astounding collection of archival materials, supplemented by period reenactmentsand concepts adapted from Jon Savage's 2007 book of the same name.

| Feb 11, 2014