Mostly plays like some creepy-perv fantasia looking for mileage from the mature-beyond-her-years presence of young star Chloe Grace Moretz.
– Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2012
rotten:
A smarmy little road movie about a Southern teenage girl losing her innocence the hard way during the Reagan era.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
11 May 2012
rotten:
Hick wants to come across as trippy and offbeat but its bizarre, surreal approach is more off-putting than effective.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
14 May 2012
rotten:
It contains some effective performances, it does a good job of evoking bereft and empty landscapes, but what is it for? Has she learned anything? Have we?
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
24 May 2012
rotten:
Ambles back and forth between tomfoolery and strained seriousness.