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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 12 Jun 2014

Kat Candler's exploration of toxic male adolescence is handsome and haunting, with a star-making performance by young star Josh Wiggins, but…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 Jun 2014

Despair is not quiet for a broken father (Aaron Paul) and his troublemaker sons in Kat Candler’s brisk, transfixing drama, which takes place…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 11 Jun 2014

Hellion offers a startling and memorable portrait of adolescent life in downscale East Texas suburbia, along with a white-hot breakthrough…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 11 Jun 2014

Hellion is a glimpse into rural American childhood that’s both tense and melancholy…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 11 Jun 2014

Hellion aims to cut deep, striking a tone that melds the hysterical moralism of Larry Clark’s Kids (1995) with the coming-of-age melancholy…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 Jun 2014

Writer and director Kat Candler struggles to shape an undercooked story into compelling drama…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Jun 2014

Occasionally, the viewer gets the sense that the camera’s jittery swaying is meant to draw attention from the film’s clunkiness…

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By Jesse Knight (9) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 11 Jun 2014

Hellion is not The Godfather of misbehaved youth, but rather a story as generic as its title…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 09 Jun 2014

I like the way writer-director Kat Candler, expanding a short film she made a few years back, doesn’t give away the whole back-story —…

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By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jun 2014

Hellion offers Paul his most adult screen role so far, and he's very fine, but the movie belongs to Wiggins, a newcomer whose innate gifts…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 09 Jun 2014

Hellion lingers for most of its running time in a betwixt-and-between place, never becoming either the sublime character sketch or the overripe…

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By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jun 2014

Both film and protagonist are troubled works in progress that shuffle and meander and frequently falter, but occasionally sing…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for About.com (1,470) on 02 Jun 2014

Apart from a bit of improbable melodrama in the last act, it's a solid and affecting film with a positive message…

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By Daniel Fienberg (11) for Hitfix (861) on 21 May 2014

Kat Candler has cobbled together an assortment of half-developed genre pieces that ultimately don't entirely gel…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 May 2014

The actors' raw honesty and the unvarnished authenticity of the Southeast Texas environment lend weight to this slow-burn drama about responsibility,…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 18 May 2014

More sensitive than sensational, Candler’s debut doesn’t add much in the way of insight to the juvenile delinquency genre, but boasts a…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 May 2014

Admittedly heartbreaking and moving in its final moments, Hellion just can’t quite convince or coalesce its ideas of struggle, pain and fury…

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