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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The PlaylistKatie WalshThe PlaylistKatie WalshThough it’s dealing with difficult subject matter, the film teems with life throughout every funny, bittersweet, and wild moment, slapping a smile on your face that won’t go away and you don’t know why.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeShari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's Ten Thousand Saints offers both a premise and a setting ripe for nostalgic sentimentality but indulges in little of it.
- 80The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerIf you are one of those people who romanticize the East Village in New York when it was at its grungiest, Ten Thousand Saints might be the movie of your dreams. Even if you’re not, it’s still a very fine film, full of quietly impressive performances and young characters who register as authentic.
- 70VarietyGeoff BerkshireVarietyGeoff BerkshirePart teen romance, part awkward love triangle, part generational-clash portrait, and almost all powered by nostalgia, this warmly conceived dramedy will likely resonate strongest with audiences who have a direct connection to the story’s place and time.
- 70Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekThe movie has a lilting, generous spirit: Springer Berman and Pulcini, the filmmaking team behind the 2003 American Splendor, have a feel for human eccentricities and weaknesses, and they know how to draw the best from their casts.
- As always, Berman and Pulcini suffuse their movie with a let's-try-anything spirit — and liberate most of their actors. What keeps Ten Thousand Saints from being another "American Splendor" (2003) or "Cinema Verite" (2011) is that this time, their tapestry has a hole in the center, where their pale antihero cannot pull the colorful threads together.
- The cast all do well with banal material that’s beneath them, especially Emily Watson.
- 38Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardEven when tragedy strikes early on, the revelation is just another "growing up is hard" dot on the grid.