Young Ones 2014

Geoff Berkshire, Variety: Gets so bogged down in its primal tale of murder and revenge that the most intriguing elements become little more than futuristic window dressing. Read more

Keith Uhlich, AV Club: Would that there were more beneath the surface of this strange brew, but it's certainly compelling while it lasts. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: No matter how grim the future may be, it deserves a better movie in the here and now. Read more

Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: Young Ones is an old-fashioned, worthwhile curio with just enough gee-whiz special effects and a soul as cold and grand as Erich von Stroheim's Greed Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: A mishmash of ideas and self-conscious execution. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: The setting is futuristic, but the themes are ancient in "Young Ones," Jake Paltrow's eccentric merger of frontier western and science-fiction gadgetry. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Even grading on a curve for originality, "Young Ones" only halfway works. But it's a genuinely idiosyncratic vision of near-future doom that's never boring, with characters and images that will stick in my mind longer than many better, soberer films. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: "Young Ones" is a futuristic look at a world with little water, but the most barren thing in this Western-sci-fi flick is the character development. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: In the hot, dry world of Jake Paltrow's dystopian western, Young Ones, the characterizations are as sparse as the desert foliage. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Young Ones has some interesting twists but falls short as a reworking of a classic Hollywood oater. Read more