Review of Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) by Mónica S — 10 Dec 2012

First-time feature director July's success has a great deal to do with her bold embrace of childhood and its gnarly truths. Totally original yet filled with familiar human frailties, "Everyone" leaps off the screen to become one of those rare movie-going experiences. By turns comic and tender, tragic and absurd. But throughout, it gives off what is surely one of the greatest of moviegoing pleasures -- the sense of an artist seeing the world from some private vantage that is as original as it is truthful. A film that with quiet confidence creates a fragile magic. It seems quite possible that Me and You marks the arrival of an artist who may affect--disturbingly yet helpfully--films and audiences to come. Every so often, a movie blindsides you, leaving you feeling different, enlightened, possibly even improved. Disturbing, maddening, often confusing, but also charming, engaging and challenging in all the best ways. Me and You and Everyone We Know is such a movie.

VERDICT: "High-Quality Stuff" - [Positive Reaction] This is a rating to a movie I view as very entertaining and well made, and definitely worth paying the full price at a theatre to see or own on DVD. It is not perfect, but it is definitely excellent. (Films that are rated 3.5 or 4 stars).