Daydream Nation 2011

Critics score:
65 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Stephen Holden, New York Times: "Daydream Nation" rolls elements of "Juno," "American Beauty," "Donnie Darko" and "Twin Peaks" into a potent blunt. Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: Sonic Youth should sue. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: It's a film about teen angst that's too caught up in its characters' state of mind to see its way through to the other side. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: A fitfully engaging effort that is most successful as a performance piece for actors Kat Dennings and Reece Thompson. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Goldbach fills the story with too many distractions, but Dennings, known for "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist," is feline and fun. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Worth seeking out... Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: To a large degree, the film is a platform for Dennings, with her young-but-wise blend of vulnerability and take-charge brashness that make her an utterly plausible magnet for sensitive dudes. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Caught halfway between comedy and drama, it's a movie that resists definition, for good and for ill. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Charged with alternating currents of teen angst, sardonic wit, nervous dread and impudent sensuality, Daydream Nation suggests Juno as reimagined by David Lynch, or a funnier, sunnier Donnie Darko. Read more

Ernest Hardy, Village Voice: Another film in which on-screen teens, especially the nubile femme fatale at the center, are but vessels to showcase the screenwriter's irony-drenched, self-satisfied intellect. Read more