| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

This bleak little drama started as a play, and I'd bet that even onstage it felt contrived.

| Jul 20, 2009

Destined for well-deserved obscurity.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2008

Feels like a pity-party for a few spoiled jerks who, all things considered, don't really merit 90 minutes of my undivided attention.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2005

[an] eloquent, damning case against American culture and family

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2004

Within this haze of drug abuse, cockiness and hollowness, we're supposed to feel for our young, spoiled protagonist. Sadly, what we mostly feel is the pain of our eyes constantly rolling in our heads.

| May 16, 2003

First-time director Catherine Jelski dredges up every cliche about druggy, obnoxious dreamers on the fringes of Hollywood and assumes that said cliches have the power to shock and surprise.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2003

You're not going to feel enlightened by The Young Unknowns and, frankly, you'll probably benefit by keeping them unknown from your film-going pocketbook.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Jelski's casting is daring, in its way, and I wish more American filmmakers would follow her example.

| Apr 23, 2003

The film wants to be a revealing character study of aimless Hollywood wannabes, but the story is just not compelling enough to make the viewer care.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2003

The writing and the lead performance of Devon Gummersall in Catherine Jelski's The Young Unknowns makes this spoiled rich kid movie almost tolerable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 22, 2003

A film of probative quietude with fiercely invested in performances; in small ways perceptive and intelligent but overall too lackadaisical in its intellectual application to leave upon viewers more than a faint, passing memory.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 21, 2003

They're not just Young Unknowns, they're also unintelligent, uninspired and unfailingly irritating, too.

| Original Score: D | Apr 18, 2003

There is nothing to redeem this movie, and no real reason to see it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 17, 2003

It is a harrowing experience, anchored by the solid portrayal by young Devon Gummersall.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2003

Yet another sordid tale of single white Hollywood kids who get drugged, drunk and disorderly by their swimming pools.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2003

The film is tough going for all the wrong reasons.

| Apr 17, 2003

A curious exercise in the vein of David Rabe's Hurlyburly that needed greater dramatic heft than is exhibited by the industry lightweights it depicts.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2003

Repetitive and stagy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 11, 2003