Jack and Diane 2012

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: Devoid of energy and direction, 'J&D' settles for faux-naif posturing and arty color design. Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: "The Man With the Iron Fists" being a fairly satisfying slab of cinematic mayhem, particularly if seen in under conditions like the ones I describe from my younger days. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: "Jack & Diane" offers a glaring example of a writer and director, Bradley Rust Gray, unable to trust in the simple strength of his material. Read more

Alison Willmore, AV Club: A trudgingly self-serious affair that doesn't manage to be transporting on either its literal or conceptual levels. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Bradley Rust Gray's over-Freuded exercise in semi-horror/gender studies ... Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Bradley Rust Gray's attempt to weave horror elements into a fairly conventional narrative yields diminishing returns in this overly stylized effort. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Throughout, the filmmaking is tentative, as though Gray is unsure whether he wants to make a fantasy-tinged romance or a hyper-sexualized blood-fest. (He winds up with neither.) Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: Tonally, the film swings between whispery romance and ominous horror as it explores the dark side of love and lust ... Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Felt like someone misinterpreting the most extreme bits of Gregg Araki and Harmony Korine and turning it into an unwatchable film made marketable by putting its leading ladies into lesbian situations. Read more

Sam Adams, Time Out: Starts with an irresistibly trashy premise and proceeds to treat it with the po-faced pretentiousness of a film-school thesis. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: A well-constructed, well-intentioned but too deliberate attempt to provoke the unprovokable. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: There's no heft to these supernatural suggestions, just a sense of stale horror tropes being trotted out to embellish otherwise routine indie material. Read more