Rolling Stone
"...Delicious malice and unexpected compassion....The cast is first-rate..." 06/25/1998 p.100Sight and Sound
"...Accomplished film-making....Fine performances and polished wit..." 09/01/1998 p.44-5 Entertainment Weekly
"...Stillman evokes the hopeful melancholy of world-weary kids searching, á la Chic, for good times..." -- Rating: A- 10/16/1998 p.96 New York Times
"...[Stillman] again renders his characters' fretfulness in deft, funny and improbably touching ways..." 05/29/1998 p.E12 Los Angeles Times
"...Sharp-eyed and charming....Made with Stillman's trademark dry wit and whimsical sense of humor..." 05/29/1998 p.C1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[Stillman] nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire....The underlying tone of the film is sweet, fond and a little sad..." 05/29/1998 p.33 Film Comment
"A masterful evocation of the giddiness and instantaneous nostalgia of waning youth." 07/01/2009 A.V. Club
"It's hard to watch this movie and not feel nostalgic -- not for the end of the disco era, but for those heady late-'90s days when small, almost novelistic movies like this were relatively common..." -- Grade: B 08/26/2009 | 
