Review of Lymelife (2008) by Mike M — 03 Jul 2010
Roberts (taking intriguing steps to shed her Nancy Drew image) and the two Culkins share the freshest scenes, though even they sometimes appear to be operating in the shadow of Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood and Adam Hann-Byrd's superior work in ["The Ice Storm"].
Where "Lymelife" scores over that film's many imitators, though, is in moving beyond new-bohemian sneering to develop a strain of social comment... It inevitably has to come back to strained kitchen-sink conversations, awkward adolescent sex and poor, defenceless inanimate objects being knocked off the dining table in explosions of long-suppressed rage, but Martini is at least trying to find new angles on this most familiar of Western sob stories: we never knew we had it so bad.
This review of Lymelife (2008) was written by Mike M on 03 Jul 2010.
Lymelife has generally received positive reviews.
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