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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Franco gives one of his most subtle performances yet as a recovering-alcoholic father, and the three young newcomers’ performances are honest and affecting, capturing what it feels like to be adrift and on the verge of adolescence.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyYosemite is a contemplative drama, low-key perhaps to a fault. But Demeestere shows acute sensitivity in her understanding of boys and their growing awareness of the world, with its real and imagined menaces.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyResolutely unshowy, sometimes almost too lower-case in its observations, Yosemite pays off in an authenticity that pervades both individual scene rhythms and performances.
- 70Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlLike Gia Coppola's Palo Alto (2013), a lyric and biting evocation of contemporary well-to-do teendom, Gabrielle Demeestere's Yosemite mines Franco's fiction for its most vital quality: his unsentimental depiction of youthful insecurity, this time among fifth-graders.
- 50The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyMs. Demeestere’s direction winds up frustratingly splitting the difference between thoughtfully detached and just plain vague.
- 50Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAlthough evocative and nicely observed, the coming-of-age drama Yosemite ultimately proves too low-key and elliptical to make much of an impression.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt never adds up to anything more than the mood Demeestere manages to translate from Franco’s fiction. Which makes Yosemite a “film festival movie,” nothing more than a promising idea or two and an interesting tone to recommend it.