| 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

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

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

| Apr 23, 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

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

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

L.A. inconsequential.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2003

Catherine Jelski's debut feature, The Young Unknowns, made in 2000 but just now being released, reveals a real talent for handling actors but never quite overcomes a feeling of familiarity and staginess.

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

Numbing but effective debut.

| Apr 8, 2003