Soleil Moon Frye's "Kid 90" is an achingly personal insight into what it means to truly understand and connect with your past, disguised as a documentary about the perils and pitfalls of childhood stardom in the blossoming age of technology
Review rate : A-by Lauren Coates[Consequence of Sound ]
other documentaries have made this point in grander, more artistic ways, but there is value in seeing this raw footage that accompanies an adolescence spent in front of the camera
more than entertainment for viewers, kid 90 proves a cathartic reckoning for Soleil Moon Frye and anyone watching who has gone through the same trials and tribulations on any scale
if the unremarkableness of the moments captured in Soleil Moon Frye's footage is refreshing, it also makes for a somewhat insipid film; The result is a film poised rather uncertainly between the personal and the cultural
despite the short 72-minute window keeping "kid 90" from offering a wider lens of that rambunctious time the bravery Fyre displays in recontextualizing a depressing time of her life is a remarkable feat that shouldn't go unnoticed
"kid 90" is a coming-of-age story that explores how sometimes we need to look back to find our way forward; "kid 90" should be required viewing for any parent with a child wanting to move to Hollywood and become famous
by Zack Ruskin [San Francisco Chronicle ]
