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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Thirteen is something of a cross between the sincere if heavily varnished family drama Once and Again and in-your-face teenage movies like Larry Clark's Kids, the stuff of which parental nightmares are made. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: A raw, disturbing look at a world adults would much rather not know about. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [T]his should be required viewing for anyone who's a parent or even thinking about becoming a parent. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Thirteen is not a pleasant experience, but it resonates with truth in all of its details. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The film moves you, angers you and tears apart your preconceptions. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: The panic in the eyes of Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), the barely teenage protagonist of Thirteen, will stay with you for a very long time. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: This piercingly strong movie puts the 'hell' in the Hello Kitty generation. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A worst-case scenario that preys on parental fears of the monster movie lurking within every teenage rebellion, and it's fed by memories of what we got away with when we were young. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Many cuts above most big-screen soap operas. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Thirteen, a disturbing look at rebellious teens, is galvanized by emotional extremes and wrenching performances. But this gritty indie film also presumes a profundity that its edgy shocks and drama-queen histrionics don't deliver. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Thirteen is a provocative peek into the raw world of modern urban adolescence -- but it's a peek with lots of thought, and some fine filmmaking, behind it. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: [A] jarring and beautiful movie. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: With an authenticity that is tender and merciless, the movie shows you what it looks like when youth rebellion becomes a form of fascism. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Burns with emotional truth. Read more
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: The film doesn't negate or sidestep the land mines of modern teen life and parenting, but it often veers into Reefer Madness cautionary territory. Read more
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Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Well paced and inventively shot. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: One of the most honest and harrowing depictions of female adolescence ever put to film. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Everyone in it needs a blood transfusion, and before it's over, so will you. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: It's a pretentious piece of Valley Girl vileness masquerading as social commentary. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A smart movie that does not simplify or candy-coat the rigors of the teenage years. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sets a technical problem that seems insoluble, and meets it brilliantly, finding convincing performances from its teenage stars. showing a parent who is clueless but not uncaring, and a world outside that bedroom window that has big bad wolves. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's just the latest in the long and proud tradition of pictures that exclaim, with a great deal of hand-wringing, 'Kids today!' If only it brought us closer to understanding them. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Wood is superb at delineating Tracy's slide into desperate incoherence, but equally impressive is Reed, who has to conceal her writer's intelligence in playing a character who's entirely instinctive and unreflective. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The movie is a descendant of 1950s juvenile- delinquent melodramas, but it has a chilling emotional authenticity. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Warning: This movie may have uncomfortable similarities to events in your life. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Only people who have forgotten their own adolescence, or who are terrified of relinquishing it, could find it startling to discover that teenagers do things to shock their parents. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: It's tough to recall the last such drama that packed as much emotional clout. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: Less a damozel- in-distress fetish flick than a bird-flipping plunge into coded girl-cult communication. Read more