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By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 13 Mar 2008

Like Elephant, it's a triumph of style and mood over story…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 13 Mar 2008

Beautiful and slow and never boring -- just a gentle, hazy sleepwalk through a time in life that never really feels fully settled or awake…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 12 Mar 2008

Paranoid Park confirms that Gus Van Sant is so far up his own artistic anus, it's impossible to take anything he makes seriously anymore...a…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 12 Mar 2008

Paranoid Park has the slightly glum insularity of minimalist fiction, but it's the first of Van Sant's blitzed-generation films in which a…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 10 Mar 2008

Yet another accomplished, stylistically courageous work from a filmmaker whose willingness to take chances and pull them off is his finest attribute…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 08 Mar 2008

[Gus Van Sant is] an incredible visual artist who can use the camera to capture seemingly languorous interludes that are, in fact, riveting…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide (1,527) on 07 Mar 2008

It's all confusing, woozy and slightly stoned, and feels very much like adolescence…

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By Ken Dubois (3) for Reel.com (1,232) on 07 Mar 2008

The real reason to see Paranoid Park is to check out how Van Sant's visual style is evolving, as he's one of the few big directors willing…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 06 Mar 2008

The one facet that separates Paranoid Park from the director's previous work is the way Van Sant uses all the talents in his arsenal to create…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 06 Mar 2008

A haunting, voluptuously beautiful portrait of a teenage boy who, after being suddenly caught in midflight, falls to earth…

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By Armond White (604) for New York Press (561) on 05 Mar 2008

Just when it looked like Van Sant was finally ready to present a movie real people might want to watch, Paranoid Park abandons universality…

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By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 27 Feb 2008

The film is an illustration of Van Sant's virtuosity, as well as a textbook example of cinema's potential to place us squarely in the emotional…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 18 Feb 2008

A study in isolation and, yes, paranoia...The mesmerizingly beautiful images--often in slo-mo--glide to evoke Alex's primary pursuit of skating…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 25 Jan 2008

Good writing and editing serves the episodic tragedy concept with rather strong gripping power…

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By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 28 Dec 2007

Filming in his characteristically dreamy, dislocated fashion, Van Sant seems as interested in the innocently beautiful face of his young star…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 28 Dec 2007

Transposed from a novel by Blake Nelson, the boy is played by newcomer Gabe Nevins with all the complexity and three-dimensionality of a magazine…

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By Jamie Russell (254) for Film4 (1,522) on 28 Dec 2007

A formally daring attempt to capture the rhythms of adolescence wrapped around a murder mystery, Paranoid Park continues Van Sant's fascination…

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By Tom Charity (192) for Total Film (3,532) on 28 Dec 2007

A teenage art-flick, Paranoid Park proves the most fluent and coherent of Gus Van Sant's recent experiments…

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By Rob Daniel (202) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 28 Dec 2007

The story is fragmented into flashforwards and flashbacks as Alex's narration skirts around the traumatic event, but culminates in a low-key…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 28 Dec 2007

A build-up of secrecy and anxiety are well-served by Van Sant's chopped-up narrative of the slow reveal, and again the director shows a keen…

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