On the Outs (2006) Critic Reviews
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On the Outs parses the hopes and terrors of blasted lives with an empathy that never cheapens into pity. The movie wounds as much as it heals, and that's its true power.Read the full review
Bracing and remarkably compact drama, which invests some standard movie tropes of rough-and-tumble urban life with deep feeling and urgency.Read the full review
Skillfully entwines stories of three young women drifting in and out of a Jersey City juvenile detention center.Read the full review
A compelling albeit highly discouraging portrait.Read the full review
Certainly not the first film to show how a crushing urban environment can make a sensible-sounding antidrug slogan like "just say no" seem like so much nonsense, but it's one of the strongest.Read the full review
On the Outs has its rewards, especially in the mesmerizing performance of Marte.Read the full review
It's all too easy to dismiss the characters' troubles as entirely of their own making. But the cast's fearless, evocative performances help a great deal.Read the full review
