AltWeeklies Wire
Mean Creek: 'Youth Companion'new
Boston's Mean Creek play a bold and exciting guitar rock that recalls both '90s alternative and '80s post-punk.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
11-15-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Mean Creek
Celebrating the Underhyped Movies of 2004new
Plenty of fine films opened to little or no fanfare this year. New Times reviewers pick their favorite movies that didn't draw the adulation they deserved.
The Pitch |
Bill Gallo, Melissa Levine, Jean Oppenheimer, Luke Y. Thompson and Robert Wilonsky |
12-27-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Directors, 2004's Best Films, Control Room, I Heart Huckabees, Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, Kitchen Stories, Mean Creek, My Architect, Overnight, She Hate Me, Silver City, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space, The Corporation, The Manchurian Candidate, The Mother, The Story of the yearinreview 2004, The Terminal, The Twilight Samurai, Tokyo Godfathers, Weeping Camel
Blurring the Line Between Predator and Preynew
The question, in this intelligent meditation on the depths kids will go to when backed into a corner, is how different the bully really is from the bullied.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mean Creek, Jacob Aaron Estes
First-Time Director Gets Stuck in a Genre Whirlpoolnew
Mean Creek feels like a supremely milquetoast film made not out of passion, but out of some assurance that a tight screenplay with all the characters' motives and artsy cinematography stacked domino-neatly in a row guarantees success. But as any game player knows, orderly dominoes are made to tumble.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mean Creek, Jacob Aaron Estes
Over the River’s Edgenew
In Mean Creek, Stand by Me meets Lord of the Flies.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-25-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mean Creek, Jacob Aaron Estes
