Adventureland Critic Reviews

Jesse Eisenberg stars as a kinder, gentler version of the insufferable faux intellectual he played in "The Squid And The Whale."Read the full review

For nostalgia junkies, it's one from the heart.Read the full review

Thanks to an exceptionally deft touch, Mottola manages to capture the absurdity and anguish of young adulthood, while never sacrificing meaning on the altar of crude humor.Read the full review

Has the note-perfect melancholy of a classic young adult novel.Read the full review

The result is a sharp, insightful, charming motion picture.Read the full review

Somehow the story of a young man's coming of age never gets old, at least when it is told with the kind of sweetness and intelligence Adventureland displays.Read the full review

With a keen affection for his own formative years, filmmaker Greg Mottola has crafted a funny and spunky amusementRead the full review

Greg Mottola has taken that most overdone of contemporary genres, the coming-of-age story, and made it engaging, bittersweet and even fun.Read the full review

What surprised me was how much I admired Kristen Stewart, who in "Twilight," was playing below her grade level. Here is an actress ready to do important things. Together, and with the others, they make Adventureland more real and more touching than it may sound.Read the full review