The Battle of Shaker Heights Critic Reviews

In a better movie -- a much better movie -- LaBeouf might make the same sort of impact Dustin Hoffman did in ''The Graduate.'' But the kid's young. There are movies to come. Read the full review

Isn't bad so much as jumbled...You get the sense of too much input, too many bright ideas, too many scenes that don't belong in the same movie. Read the full review

Another heartfelt coming-of-age story that plays much more like a television movie than a theatrical feature. Read the full review

Best to experience Shaker Heights for what it is: not a movie, exactly, but the true season capper of ''Project Greenlight,'' a series that finds its very drama on the road to mediocrity.Read the full review

The best thing that can be said about this lethargic coming-of-age tale, noticeably undernourished at 78 minutes, is that it's better than the even more pathetic "Stolen Summer." Read the full review

Although Erica Beeney's script beat out more than 7,000 entries, the screen version dulls her potentially distinctive voice with deadly doses of sentimentality. Read the full review

Goes down fighting, but it goes down just the same. Read the full review

Dispiriting mess. The movie is bad in a boring way: tepidly paced, disjointed and lacking any emotional hook. Read the full review

May lead to a new axiom: success has many fathers, but failure has "Project Greenlight." Read the full review