Hick 2011

Rachel Saltz, New York Times: Forced irony or klutziness? Too often that's the question you ask of "Hick," which makes the answer all too clear. Read more

Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: Ambles back and forth between tomfoolery and strained seriousness. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Mostly plays like some creepy-perv fantasia looking for mileage from the mature-beyond-her-years presence of young star Chloe Grace Moretz. Read more

Andrew Lapin, NPR: Doesn't deserve to be remembered as much of anything. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A smarmy little road movie about a Southern teenage girl losing her innocence the hard way during the Reagan era. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: The movie careers downhill with the speed of an unhinged kangaroo with one foot. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Hick wants to come across as trippy and offbeat but its bizarre, surreal approach is more off-putting than effective. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It contains some effective performances, it does a good job of evoking bereft and empty landscapes, but what is it for? Has she learned anything? Have we? Read more

Chuck Wilson, Village Voice: Too odd to be funny, too cold-hearted to be tragic, Hick is an infuriating muddle. Read more