Paranoid Park

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    Paranoid Park
    2007

    Synopsis

    A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

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    Cast

    • Gabe NevinsAlex
    • Dan LiuDetective Richard Liu
    • Jake MillerJared
    • Taylor MomsenJennifer
    • Lauren McKinneyMacy
    • Scott Patrick GreenScratch
    • John Michael BurrowesSecurity Guard
    • Grace CarterAlex's Mom
    • Jay 'Smay' WilliamsonAlex's Dad
    • Christopher DoyleUncle Tommy

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Village Voice

      The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor.
    • 100

      The New York Times

      A haunting, voluptuously beautiful portrait of a teenage boy who, after being suddenly caught in midflight, falls to earth.
    • 91

      The A.V. Club

      It's a film assembled from moments out of time, destined forever to weigh down the boy at their center.
    • 90

      Variety

      Through immaculate use of picture, sound and time, the director adds another panel to his series of pictures about disaffected, disconnected youth.
    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Paranoid Park is a supernaturally perfect fusion of Van Sant’s current conceptual-art-project head-trip aesthetic and Blake Nelson’s finely tuned first-person “young adult” novel.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      The film's sound design, sampling Beethoven and Nino Rota, among others, links up with visual miracles performed by Rain Kathy Li and Wong Kar-Wai's noted cinematographer, Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love), to take us inside Alex's head. The result, a defiant slap at slick Hollywood formula, is mesmerizing.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      In Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant enters the world of high school kids just as he did in "Elephant," achieving this time a much sharper, more focused portrait of how these rapidly maturing young people act, think, speak and behave.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      It's all confusing, woozy and slightly stoned, and feels very much like adolescence.

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