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Once in a blue moon a movie escapes the shackles of its genre and does what it really wants to do. Kids in America is a movie like that. It breaks out of Hollywood jail.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Overall, though, you get the exhausting feeling that Stolberg is desperately trying to prove how cool he is. And didn't you see enough of that in high school?Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Josh Stolberg launches a scalding attack on the stodgy conservatism of the American public school system, only to end up stacking the deck in egregiously smirky and simple-minded ways.Full Review

Justin Chang
Variety

Well-meaning but woefully unconvincing.Full Review

Sheri Linden
The Hollywood Reporter

Has its heart in the right place, but its head seems to be lost in a swirling maelstrom of teen movies that have come before.Full Review

Melissa Levine
Dallas Observer
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