Lost and Delirious: Critic Reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Evokes the intimacies of teenage girls with unusual delicacy, and Perabo's performance is a geyser of emotion.
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Elvis Mitchell New York Times (Top Critic)

40

It often has a camp ludicrousness, evoking an 'Afterschool Special' inspired by the pages of Penthouse Forum.
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Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

Pool can't avoid force-feeding us metaphors -- avian to Shakespearean -- whenever she wants.
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Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

30

Equally earnest and unconvincing.
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Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Pool is an assured director, not afraid to explore the darker side of adolescence with integrity.
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Jessica Winter Village Voice (Top Critic)

Cumulatively excruciating in its mawkish symbolism ... quasifeminist posturing (men bad!), and strenuous heterophobia.
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Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Its treatment of the operatic highs and lows of young love and heartbreak feels right emotionally, even though the film tells its story rather awkwardly.
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Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

Their characters may feel lost, but Ms. Perabo and Ms. Pare rank among the finds of the year.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

Stirred within me memories of that season in adolescence when the heart leaps up in passionate idealism -- and inevitably mingles it with sexual desire.
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Loren King Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

Weighty stuff for the Bring It On or Legally Blonde summer crowd. For the rest, Lost and Delirious is a welcome antidote.
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Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

Isn't it possible to be true to one's heart without self-destructing?
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

[Pool is] working with a bigger budget, glossier production values and a much dumber script ... than usual.
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Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

Barely skirting the lip of the ridiculous.
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Kevin Courrier Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

Pool and Thompson have turned a tough-minded, solid narrative into a campy piece of kitsch that panders to teenage angst.
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Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

50

The film's title refers to its heroine but ends up describing the movie itself.
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Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

40

During the long sit, we get symbolism lobbed into our laps like a large you-go-girlfriend beach ball.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Luis Martinez Cinenganos

85

Pool convierte el inerte celuloide en un pedazo vivo de realidad humana. Una pelicula que navega de lo fragil a lo tosco y de vuelta.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Walter Chaw Film Freak Central

38

A teen-lesbian Phenomenon without the maggots and psychotic chimp.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

50

Way too little, too late.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Ted Murphy Baseline.Hollywood.com

80

Rarely has a filmmaker captured the essence of those moments between adolescence and adulthood with the skill and sensitivity Pool does.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Laura Kelly South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Shakespearean drama as penned by a love-struck pubescent girl.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

42

Well-intentioned but curiously out-of-date...far too earnest for its own good.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review

80

Perabo is a revelation, wild and fiery.
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Joe Baltake Sacramento Bee

This movie goes so far in the opposite direction of most films about teenagers that it might anger some viewers with its no-holds-barred honesty.
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Brian Webster Apollo Guide

76

Less than an overwhelming success, but it's still touching and troubling, and amounts to much more than the average portrayal of teen angst.
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