Carina Chocano
The Los Angeles Times
A wanly charming throwback of a teen movie, "Charlie Bartlett" is a coming-of-age story about an oddball misfit who finally achieves the popularity that's eluded him for years by becoming his school's de facto shrink. This being the Prozac era (or is it the post-Prozac era already?), his services naturally encompass psychopharmacology, an enterprise in which he's unknowingly aided and abetted by psychiatrists who gleefully push prescription drugs on him.
Though it pokes at the hypocrisy of self-medicating adults prescribing anything (whether drugs or rules) to kids, "Charlie Bartlett" is neither cynical nor particularly satirical. [...]
di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (3654 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 22 febbraio 2008
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