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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshThis visceral and anxiety-laden vision ends on an uneasy, though hopeful, note.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreEven though there’s nothing we haven’t seen before in this movie, she and Some Freaks remind us not just of the cruelties of the teen years, the insecurities and secret shame, but of how young we are when we figure out that it’s all just perception.
- 70Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAll the actors are good, but Harrington is remarkable. It’s not just the physical changes in her character, but the genuineness with which she inhabits her.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAn affecting debut for anyone who has dwelled on the far outskirts of adolescent social life, Ian MacAllister McDonald's Some Freaks captures high school/college agony without transmuting it into thank-God-we-survived-it nostalgia.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyAll the performances are very nicely turned in a movie that deliberately excludes any significant adult presence in order to immerse us fully in an adolescent world.
- 60Paste MagazineKenji FujishimaPaste MagazineKenji FujishimaThe deeper Some Freaks wades into what becomes a series of sadistic and masochistic humiliations, the more McDonald’s film begins to feel schematic, with these characters little more than pawns in a screenwriter’s game of toying with our expectations.