What Goes Up

Ambitious teen setting rings false

You can fault the alienating anti-comedy "What Goes Up" for many things, but you can't accuse it of lacking ambition. In just under two hours, writer-director Jonathan Glatzer sandwiches in an entire season of after-school specials, ruminating on suicide, unplanned pregnancy, sexual abuse, abortion, the perils of public masturbation, the nature of American heroism and the Challenger space shuttle tragedy.
Dyslexia and eradicating world famine will have to wait for another movie, I guess. [...]

di Glenn Whipp, articolo completo (1846 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 29 maggio 2009