It finds the actors’ performance deficiencies functioning less as signs of authentic teenage behavior than as an incompetent carrier of plot.
Oh, lying, what a mess you make of things!
The film’s meticulously composed cinematography proves almost as inert as its star’s grimacing tough-guy routine.
Kit Kittredge is remarkable for the social consciousness its young characters evince.
The film is ham-fisted, maddeningly overwritten, and about as subtle as a jackhammer.
Bill Condon’s provocative, problematic biopic takes an unapologetically reverential stance in its portrayal of the 1940s sex research pioneer.