Remember the Daze Reviews

As high school zeitgeist stories go, Remember the Daze holds no great secrets or revelations, no iconic characters or "American Pie"-style set pieces, but it demonstrates considerable promise on the part of its director and her up-and-coming cast.Full Review

A generally entertaining but half-baked variation on Richard Linklater's high school period piece, "Dazed and Confused" (made in 1993, set in 1976), Remember the Daze (set in 1999) takes its cue from the earlier film in an excess of ways.Full Review

As high school zeitgeist stories go, Remember the Daze holds no great secrets or revelations, no iconic characters or “American Pie”-style set pieces, but it demonstrates considerable promise on the part of its director and her up-and-coming cast.Full Review

Remember the Daze has the irony-free, instant-nostalgia earnestness of your high school yearbook, but watching it is not likely to conjure your own youthful emotions -- it's more like flipping through the generic memories of a complete stranger.Full Review

The original title of Jess Manafort's directorial debut was "The Beautiful Ordinary," and she shouldn't have changed it. After all, her cast is beautiful and her movie is ordinary.Full Review