David
Actors did a great job in this film.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
09/23/23
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John O
Spoilers: Kaitlyn and Tye are wonderful young actors. So I had to see this despite a sour grapes rating. Bonuses were Paula, Pablo and Annabeth. Good dialogue, writing. Among the coming of age films, this one stands out with a huge twist. The confusion over and attraction to sex, the outgoing personalities and the more shy, is pretty standard fare. The buddies and bikes, the iconoclastic pranks. But this turns early, when these three knucklehead teens decided to steal one's grandfather's truck to steal yard ornaments from neighbors' yards. Tye and Kaitlyn have a thing by then, and when the kids steal a plant from her family's porch, her dumbass older brother chases them in his car, hits a deer and crashes his car. The whole piece now turns on what the boys did next. They knew the guy had been knocked out but not if he were dead. But they left the scene, and he was found dead. Blame for his death followed Tye the rest of the piece, though the brother was probably too stupid to live long anyway. So the final blow was after Kaitlyn's parents found that she and Tye had been engaging in hanky panky. Tye decided it was time to tell Kaitlyn he was at the wreck scene but didn't help the brother, to exorcise that demon from himself. I suppose he didn't think how much it might hurt Kaitlyn and end the relationship, which is what happened. He put his agenda first, easing his conscience, not protecting her. Maybe he also thought he better tell, so the truth didn't come out later some other way. But they let the philosophizing to his older self, Pablo, viewing all this in retrospect. One thing can happen and it changes everything, and it can be for the worse, and you can never get back to where you were before. He still had a torch for her and wished her well, despite being married with a son named after her dead brother. Well done, way better than the critics allowed.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
10/21/22
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Wow . Wish I saw this one sooner , Kinda predictable but just wow very sad twisted movie . I was impressed. Haven't seen a good one in awhile but I would definitely recommend this to anyone .
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/10/23
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Audience Member
It was good a lot better than the reviews on here say forsure it was a little bit cheesy but I liked it and it had a good storyline and a ending that makes you think a lot which was nice.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/18/23
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Craig N
With an ensemble of soon to be stars, All Summer's End still fails to shine. The actors have the stuff but the story ultimately fails to fuel the fireworks. While there are big emotional moments, it to often feels we are kept at a distance from what's going on inside the hearts of our leads. Seemingly, putting the audience in more the place of the kid's parents, than the kids themselves. It's hard, teenagers may not even know what they're thinking or feeling, but of course, the director and we the audience must. OR we need be on a journey so consuming and vivifying we forget about what's happening outside the present moment -- many kids' real life experience! Here, too often, we are left wondering what else may be happening. Maybe that's because we start and end outside of the story, as the film itself is a flashback. Maybe it's our familiarity with the tropes of teenage films, and while this is a slightly new narrative, it still fails to stand out. It's hard to put a finger on it, but I will say one of my favorite scenes was when the kids lose their virginity. The way it was captured and directed, gave me a real sense of the nervousness, expectation and foreignness of that one of a kind exchange. I just wish there could have been more of that authentic feeling captured throughout. But maybe capturing the angst of youth is shortchange and what we need is something entirely new as the experience of youth in our digital age is now changed, forever. Nonetheless, there's something to say about this time period in our lives, no matter the circumstance, and that's why we keep coming back to it, artists and audience alike. In the end, All Summer's End fails to leave us with the indelible charge of what that Summer must have felt like.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
11/22/20
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Bruce S
Believable plot, ok chemistry, decent acting.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
08/25/20
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