Reviews

• Like Malick's "Days of Heaven," it is not about plot, but about memory and regret. It remembers a summer that was not a happy summer, but there will never again be a summer so intensely felt, so alive, so valuable.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  26 April 2013

• Green tells the tale through leisurely, eye-catching shots that allow the young cast members to imbue their characters with striking credibility and intensity.

  David Sterritt - Christian Science Monitor
  
  26 April 2013

• Green has created a work of startling originality that will haunt you for a good, long time.

  Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
  
  26 April 2013

• A picture about America with the blinders off, a film about heroism that makes you chuckle and feel sad - and a film about childhood that lets us reenter that lost world and see the grass, sky and sunlight the way they once looked, in the golden hours.

  Michael Wilmington - The Chicago Tribune
  
  26 April 2013

• A peculiar combination of willful meandering and matter of fact violence, and it occasionally confounds in its attempts to exalt.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  26 April 2013