Tadpole Critic Reviews
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It's a funny, fearless, poignant, spectacular performance. Come to think of it, those words could well apply to the entirety of Tadpole.Read the full review
Doesn't need the passage of time to become a classic. It's one already.Read the full review
Tadpole may be small, but it's something special -- a cheeky comedy knockout.Read the full review
A smart sex comedy that successfully swims upstream to spawn and score.Read the full review
An irreverent and witty comedy in which the events aren't predictable but are well paced.Read the full review
Where ''Rushmore'' surprises and delights with its spiky depiction of sprawling American idiosyncrasy, Tadpole's more urbane, less complicated charms are specifically made in New York City.Read the full review
Shot in just two weeks with a hand-held digital camera, the movie often looks frayed around the edges. Yet it has a soulful heart and a clear grasp of its rarefied milieu (Manhattan upper-level moneyed academia).Read the full review
Witty, adult treatment of an offbeat subject: a pubescent boy's infatuation with an older woman.Read the full review
Oscar's life has the potential to become a Greek tragedy, but Winick keeps things light enough that it resolutely stays a comedy.Read the full review
Though sloppily structured and sometimes dangerously flimsy (not to mention truncated at a mere 78 minutes), Tadpole has an unforced charm that compensates for the absence of more traditional cinematic virtues.Read the full review
