We the Party Reviews

Movie Reviews

• you've got a movie that feels more like consciousness-raising, plot-juggling homework than a youthful blast

  by Robert Abele [Los Angeles Times ]

• the script suffers from blandness and aimlessness

  by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]

• the enjoyment fades behind the too-numerous subplots

  by Stephanie Merry [Washington Post ]

• manic visual style featuring the sort of split-screen obsession that felt outdated decades ago

  by Frank Scheck [Hollywood Reporter ]

• lines like "Smart is the new gangsta" clash with the movie's reliance on teen movie stereotypes and a prank stolen right out of "Freaks and Geeks"

  by Matt Pais [RedEye ]

• it's hard to dislike Party; the tempo is brisk and the message

  by Scott Bowles [USA Today ]

• it's an uneasy mixture of crude yukking and mixed-message uplift that satisfies on neither level

  by Andrew Schenker [Time Out New York ]

• it would be nice to see them in less earnest, more original material

  by Neil Genzlinger [New York Times ]

• it has some inspired comedy and a cutting-edge score, featuring performances by a number of emerging hip-hop acts

  by Kam Williams [AALBC.com ]

• it could be a '90s sitcom-with funny, unexpected sparks of life

  Review rate : B by Alison Willmore [AV Club ]

• it contains a great deal that is serious about growing up in America today

  by Roger Ebert [Chicago Sun-Times ]

• for all its stylistic bling-check out all those split screens!-the pic feels like a quickie knockoff between major projects

  by Robert Koehler [Variety ]

• barely there drama is merely a hanger for preachy stay-in-school bromide

  by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]

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