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(1 - 25) of 25 OFCS Rating: 20% Rotten Page   1   F "Here is a film so loathsome, so pointless, and so painful to watch that I could only wince as it bounced from scene to scene (or more accurately, skit to skit)."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark D+ "No amount of familial insanity or "K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack indulgences can mask the film's inability to tell a coherent story."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 2.5/5 "goes for the easy punchline, making the film too often a shallow exercise in retro camp"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti 1/4 "...strikes all the wrong notes virtually from the get-go."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/4 "Perceptive, sad and witty."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1/4 "This is among the most loathsome films of the year, something of a Hollywood facsimile of Tideland, only Terry Gilliam's gothic upchuck was not so dense as to make any pretense to reality."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C+ "A two-hour film needs characters we believe, like, and feel connected to, not freaks from a sideshow."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 0.5/4 "The worst kind of cinematic parable; a self-aware mixture of quirk and depression populated by some of the most oppressively infuriating characters imaginable."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D "One of the most grating, irritating movies you're likely to see all year...an avalanche of eccentricity without any redeeming comic or dramatic virtues."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A zany movie about young lives whacked and warped by the excessive craziness and irresponsibility of adults."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "As dysfunctional family movies go, this is one skip. It doesn't just run with the scissors, it falls on them."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "I've often wondered how Burroughs' scathing ruminations would translate to the big screen and now I know: not that well."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 4/10 "It's rather amusing for about the first 20 to 30 minutes, but gets old soon enough as the film assaults you with an in-your-face hysteria."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 4/10 "It's more like Walking with Safety Scissors."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "It's a story populated by characters not people, all displaying wildly antisocial behaviors for the seeming purpose of giving the teenage Burroughs something to write about when older. It may be factual but it is not truth."   Pretentious Musings   Kevin Koehler "It's movies like this one that make me wanna hang up my hat as a critic, because I just can't figure out what's wrong with it. I should love [it]."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B "Brilliant performances are not enough to make up for a story that is no deeper than the perky 70's hits on the soundtrack. The actors fill the characters with life and conflict. But they can't fill the movie, which feels hollow."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2.5/5 "It's hard to fault a memoir where your mom gives you up for adoption to her therapist before coming out as a lesbian. I mean, that's pretty much comedy gold..."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2.5/5 "We can really feel writer-director Murphy straining for both wacky hilarity and touching emotion. And never quite getting there."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "Writer/helmer Ryan does an interesting, though uneven, job in bringing Augusten’s strange story to the screen."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford "It's Baldwin, in a relatively small role, who nearly blows the whole movie apart."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 5/10 "Episodic, shallow and so bizarre that it's almost surreal."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 5/10 "Episodic, shallow and so bizarre that it's almost surreal."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 25) of 25 OFCS Rating: 20% Rotten Page   1