Ebert pointed out in his glowing, four star review of "George Washington" that "You hang around with these kids all summer....etc." And, that is exactly the problem with this film. It's like hanging around with kids which, if it were all that interesting, we'd all be hanging around with strange kids for entertainment. Furthermore, the kids in "George Washington" aren't all that interesting. There's little doubt that newbie writer/director Green is a work-in-progress, but this film moves glacially and eventually become one long drone of small talk. A slice of boring, backwater, poor folk life which, though very well executed, is just not sufficiently substantive to be recommendable even in the face of countless critical raves. (C+)
Review of George Washington
