Garden State Critic Reviews
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Writer/director Zach Braff has threaded a powerful and intelligent personal story through a genre all too rare today – romantic comedy.Read the full review
Garden State illuminates a young man's overdue coming of age with unexpected depth and grace. Read the full review
This is not a perfect movie; it meanders and ambles and makes puzzling detours. But it's smart and unconventional, with a good eye for the perfect This is not a perfect movie; it meanders and ambles and makes puzzling detours. But it's smart and unconventional, with a good eye for the perfect detail.Read the full review
Though unlikely to have the lasting quality of "The Graduate," it feels a bit like that seminal film for today's generation. Read the full review
It's a hilarious and heartfelt ode to twentysomething angst. Braff has himself a winner.Read the full review
Certainly Garden State is a very American specimen of debut indie form, its loose, goof-about scenes of comic melancholy reinforced with the glue of quirkiness over cracks in the narrative development.Read the full review
Garden State features some wonderful performances, chief among them an engaging, even courageous turn from Natalie Portman. Read the full review
An edgy quasi-comedy, it's very funny in places, touching in others. There is a little unevenness. But for a directorial debut, it's amazingly assured. Read the full review
Small, smart, off-kilter comedy.Read the full review
A standard issue, first-movie navel-gaze whose cobwebs Braff meticulously sweeps away by directing the bejesus out of it. The photography makes loveliness out of the film's dank, hung-over atmosphere; the camerawork and editing lend the movie a luscious daydreaminess. Read the full review
