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15 March 2016 12:20 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

A high-school English teacher chaperones three students at a weekend-long drama competition and finds that she’s the one with a lot to learn in “Miss Stevens,” a well-acted and involving dramedy that takes a few too many facile turns en route to upbeat endings all around. Julia Hart’s directing debut is distinguished by a smartly layered performance from Lily Rabe (“American Horror Story”), fully persuasive as a designated authority figure still a few steps away from embracing full adulthood, but it’s hard not to wish the script weren’t quite so insistent on treating its characters — even those it invests with deeper, richer complexities — as problems waiting to be solved by film’s end. Still, with its polished presentation and strong performances, this late-coming-of-ager should serve as a solid calling card for Hart as it makes its way into the niche-distribution stream.

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- Justin Chang

31 January 2016 12:51 AM, PST | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »

★★☆☆☆ The richly shot opening images of Andrew Droz Palermo's debut feature hold much promise. Sadly, One and Two doesn't go on to deliver. From murky depths, light penetrates a body of water which is pierced by two figures. A boy and girl contemplate the stunning reflection of a twilight sky playing on its surface. The sound of birds and crickets is backed by a whimsical score that echoes and reverberates. Seen in long shot, the boy and girl, siblings Zac (Timothée Chalamet) and Eva (Kiernan Shipka), run across a field in front of a fenced forest. Full of intrigue and mystery, this opening sequence sets up an interesting premise which dully travels from nowhere to nowhere, bogged down by loose direction, an underdeveloped script and little more than surface characterisation.

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- CineVue UK

28 January 2016 1:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A sense of mystery drifts in from magic-hour tableaux and interior monologue voiceovers in this watchable tale about teenagers with special powers

Gorgeous to look at thanks to Autumn Durald’s cinematography, lushly scored by Nathan Halpern, and initially compelling, this oddcore work makes promises it doesn’t keep. Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper from Mad Men) and Timothee Chalamet (Homeland) star as siblings living with their parents (Grant Bowler, Elizabeth Reaser) on an isolated farm without electricity. It’s isolated because there’s a huge fence that seemingly stretches for miles around their land (a steal from M Night Shyamalan’s The Village). Meanwhile, the teenagers have an unexplained ability to teleport at will – inventively rendered as a sudden swirling of dust and a sucking whoosh – but daddy doesn’t like it, and something is making mama sick. The film chooses to leave most of the what, whys and hows unexplained, »

- Leslie Felperin

17 January 2016 6:13 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »

Stars: Amber Heard, James Franco, Christian Slater, Ed Harris, Wilmer Valderrama, Cynthia Nixon, Jim Parrack, Timothée Chalamet, Danny Flaherty, Michael Cristofer, Tonya Glanz, Jessica Leccia, Gabriela Fresquez, Casper Andreas, Jimmy Gary Jr. | Written by Stephen Elliott, Pamela Romanowsky | Directed by Pamela Romanowsky

Adderall: now coming to a college campus near you. Well besides its intended usage for concentration in individuals who have Add, Adderall plays a part in the aptly titled The Adderall Diaries, a film, starring Amber Heard, Christian Slater, Ed Harris and James Franco, that follows a writer who is emotionally and creatively depressed, all the while dealing with a terrible childhood and contemplating his relationships with the people who have entered and left from his life.

The Adderall Diaries is adapted from Stephen Elliott’s book of the same name, which is about the author writing about the Hans Reiser murder trial all the while coming to »

- Catherina Gioino

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