Review of Igby Goes Down (2002) by Elsa B — 26 Aug 2007

Love the movie, and not just cuz it contains a Culkin or because my friend's camp name is Igby!

This review of Igby Goes Down (2002) was written by Elsa B on 26 Aug 2007.

Igby Goes Down has generally received positive reviews.

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Igby Goes Down is my personal favourite coming-of-age film. I also consider it one of the most underrated films of the 2000s…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Jan 2013

A dead-on sense of how rich kids live and talk today, a sense of the melancholy of a dysfunctional family, and some great dark laughs…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 28 Jul 2013

Culkin broods and freaks out ably, but Igby's snotty, dysfunction-derived malaise remains off-putting, mostly because his lines aren't half…

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By Thomas B (1,990) on 04 Sep 2013

A spoiled rich kid has a self-induced crummy life. Flatly acted by Kieran Culkin and bereft of any character development…

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This movie has been compared to a modern day version of the Catcher in the Rye, but since I found that reading that book pointless and boring,…

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By Robert Wilonsky (520) for New Times (L.A.) (313) on 14 Oct 2013

Witty and intelligently made. It's also utterly baffling…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 14 Mar 2012

Its motif is self-pity, Steers displays no particular way with a scene, and, as Igby, Culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 30 Mar 2012

Smart and novelistic and spiked with more than a bit of The Catcher in the Rye, Steers' movie is a prickly coming-of-age tale in which everybody…

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By Elizabeth M (1,049) on 29 Oct 2014

Igby: It's ironic that the first time in my life that I feel remotely affectionate for her, is when she's dead…

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