Overrated reality slop.
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09/02/05
Kids (1995)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:26
Rotten:25
Average Rating:5/10
Synopsis: A bleak and uncompromising look at the dangerous world of New York street kids. The film focuses on the sexual experiences of Telly, a teen-aged seducer who desires only virgins. When Jennie --... [More]
Starring: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson
Director: Larry Clark
Reviews for Kids
No matter the interpretation, the film’s sensationalism is eerily frank no matter if it’s presented in good taste or not.
01/01/00
No review available.
02/28/03
Kids is an emotional sucker punch, a raw, dirty, disturbing piece of cinéma vérité filmmaking that simultaneously hooks and repulses you from its opening scenes.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/29/05
Kids is especially chilling because it seems uncannily authentic.
06/05/02
With his debut feature, Larry Clark has made an unpleasant film about a few repulsive characters who lead a fairly irredeemable existence.
01/01/00
Kids is the kind of movie that needs to be talked about afterward.
01/01/00
Top CriticPedophilia, pedophilia, pedophilia.
10/13/07
A movie that pretends to be concerned with making an important social statement about modern youth, but which instead is just relentlessly in-your-face, wallowing in degradation to make a quick, controversial buck at the local multiplex.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/27/02
Trashy and exploitational. Clark comes off like a skuzzy pornographer taking advantage of his cast while using a faux vérité excuse as his accomplice.
07/11/03
The first-time director, Larry Clark, is rather like his protagonist: He comes on to you, has his rough way with you, and leaves you feeling empty and violated.
08/04/07
In its candid and bold approach, Larry Clarke's controversial film dwarfs all of Hollywood's youth movies, crossing new boundaries in its portrayal of sex and drugs; for a change, real teenagers, not actors in their 20s, play the roles.
12/19/06
There's an unsettling subtext here; despite the presence of a broad (not to mention tired, simplistic, and overworked) "message," it feels like exploitation.
06/20/04
One of Larry Clark's infamous "Kids are Evil Monsters" movies, Clark tells very little, and shows too much with an art illusion.
07/16/07
Deeply shocking and disturbing, this film's hype exists for a reason.
01/01/00
Utterly repugnant, child pornography masquerading as serious filmmaking.
01/14/03
No review available.
05/07/07
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