Artist and director Laurel Nakadate takes us beyond the prepackaged and sanitized world of the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana to the true heartland of America and the tween-aged girls that inhabit it. In Kansas City, pop culture is something to be twisted and reshaped, relationships are either nonexistent or refabricated, and time is unstructured and teasing. At the heart of these girls' lives—and this innovative work of cinema—is a quest for understanding and a sense of place. The risks run and solutions posed engender both laughs and tears. The film's amateur actors and nonlinear narrative bring an unnerving, utterly human face to the challenges of young womanhood in a world that would prefer that girls watch the Disney Channel.
Stay the Same Never Change has generally received mixed reviews.
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Review of Stay the Same Never Change (2009)
By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Mar 2009
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Stay the Same Never Change was released in 2009 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 6 reviews, giving Stay the Same Never Change (2009) an average rating of 43%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 65%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 30%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Stay the Same Never Change a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 43%, Stay the Same Never Change is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like Whiteout, The Thaw and Chandni Chowk to China.
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