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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Sep 2011

It is hard to say, though, if this film, directed by Gus Van Sant from a script by Jason Lew, is an argument for denial or a treatise on acceptance…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Sep 2011

Annabel and Enoch learn from each other, even as time ticks away and the end draws near. Weeping is invited, but by no means required…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 13 Sep 2011

If Harold and Maude hadn't already gotten there 40 years ago, this quirky but engaging trifle might seem refreshingly original…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Sep 2011

Somehow, Van Sant has made a film about life and death in which the stakes never seem higher than whether one insolent kid will stop being…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Sep 2011

Gus Van Sant directs his players just shy of mush; he's a filmmaker capable of brilliant dares (Milk, Paranoid Park) and shocking whiffs (Finding…

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By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Sep 2011

Gus Van Sant's latest - a middle-class hetero teen romance, no less - walks the line between mainstream sentimentality and dark art-house humor…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 11 Sep 2011

The picture is so fluttering and tender, so guileless, that you almost can't believe it was made by an old hand like Van Sant…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Sep 2011

At once delicate and clumsy, tender and twee, Restless wraps the pain of grief and impending mortality in the balm of a teenage love story…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2011

The most banal and indulgent of Gus Van Sant's periodic studies of troubled kids, this agonizingly treacly tale comes off like an indie version…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

Gus Van Sant's cinema, which of late has been fixated on immersing viewers in particular times and spaces, takes a detour into excruciating…

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