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Thumbsucker
Directed by
Mike Mills
R
2005
1h 36m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.5
70%
71%
6.2
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Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
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Thumbsucker Ratings & Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
Ken Tucker
Unlike so many movies in which a character changes in order to propel the plot forward, this one stops to follow up on the consequences of those changes.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
One thing's for sure, of all the things a person can think to say about this movie one they certainly can't, title to the contrary, is that it sucks.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Brave, funny leap into the abyss of adolescence.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A gently stirring symphony about emotional transition filled with lovely musical passages and softly nuanced performances.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Quiet, quirky gem.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Although often amusing, Thumbsucker lacks the necessary bite.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Mills, working from a novel by Walter Kirn, brings some unusual touches to a film that could easily have become a standard indie coming-of-age tale.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A smart, funny, sometimes lovely little film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I have focused on Justin, but really the movie is equally about the adult characters, who all seem to have lacked adequate parenting themselves. We talk about the tragedy of children giving birth to children; maybe that can happen at any age.
The New Yorker
David Denby
The movie never reaches much of a dramatic climax, but there are many surprises on the way to nowhere, and Mills's refusal to rush brings out the humor and the hidden tensions in material.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
[Vaughn is] playing a different role here and I thought it was a really strong performance.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Respectful performances are given by all, with Pucci the standout. But the actors can't escape the confines of the warmed-over, coming-of-age-in-suburbia script.
New York Daily News
Robert Dominguez
A quirky coming-of-age tale where just about every character is going through some sort of change.
Slate
David Edelstein
The quintessential misadapted head-scratcher.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Thumbsucker aims high but swerves too frequently between the engaging and the credibility-defying to be satisfying.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mike Mills's feature-film debut manages to show how calamitous and out of control (and also how thrilling) growing up odd and ordinary can be.
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