Kids

Pros: None. I'm absolutely serious.
Cons: See review.

Kids these days. Amoral, drug-doing, sex crazed, thieving animals with less social conscience than your average invertebrate. Right? Right???? Having now partaken of two of Larry Clark’s journeys through adolescence, that is really ...

Pros: A movie that needs to be seen by teens and unsuspecting parents
Cons: Sound quality is weak

This is an extremely depressing look at reality. I had read an epinion reviewing the
movie and so I rented it and sat down with my 16 year old stepdaughter to watch it. To
my surprise, she'd already seen it and she gave me a one word review:...

Pros: Unfortunately Realistic Story-line, Great Acting, Thought-Provoking
Cons: Hard to Watch, Not for Actual Kids

Kids is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. It is not one of those teen movies that brush off the real issues teenagers face, and instead depict reality as something like an episode of Beverly Hills 90210. This movie really hits so close...

Pros: It brought Chloe Sevigny to the screen.
Cons: Amateurishly made. Indifferently performed and wallows in its own excesses.

Filming is proceeding rapidly on my new project, Flying Down to Reno, the musical remake of that wonderful film Airport '75. The last few days have been given over to my big tap finale as I lead all of the grateful passengers in a conga...

Pros: Clark's Direction, Korine Script, Verite Style, Soundtrack, Tone, & Cast.
Cons: Might Be Too Graphic or Too Shocking for Some Viewers.

The 1990s was a troubling decade early on in an era where a lot of young kids were feeling disenfranchised by the Reagan-led era of the 1980s. The 90s wasn't a good decade were even when Bill Clinton ran the country, kids still had problems. Notably in ...

Pros: Great camera-work, extremely realistic, great performance by Leo Fitzpatrick
Cons: Tacked on HIV section.

It seems that every review that has been written concerning this movie has either centered on-

a)How unreal it is compared to the realities of todays kids.

or

b)How over the top it is.

And to generalize...

Pros: Spirit of independent film
Cons: No solid plot, writing

I'm sure for many movie viewers, they watch a movie, like it, and then don't watch it for a couple years. But when they watch it again, the begin to realize that they didn't like the film now and ask themselves "What was I thinking?" I thought that ...

Pros: Great acting, gripping images
Cons: After a while, the negativity of it all starts to get to your head

What does the title of this movie imply? Youth. Fun. Innocence. The best times of our lives. Right?

"Kids" is a grim docudrama about experiencing the darker side of life at a younger age.

AIDS. Rape. Drugs. Alchoholism....

Pros: Give me a few years to think of one
Cons: Good grief, you mean you want me to name them all??

Thinking people actually take this movie seriously!

This is the only movie I've ever banned from my VCR. By banned, I mean I sent on a 50 foot nose dive out the window of my apartment, never to see it's presence anywhere near my VCR...

Pros: real life problems
Cons: depliction of rape

Ive seen this moving many times. I had heard many stories about certain parts of the movie. I didnt want to be left out of loop and not have a clue about what anyone was talking about.So I was watching flipping thru the tv guide one night and found it...

Pros: excellent story, very realistic, good aciting, teaches a lesson
Cons: a bit of a downer, some may find it offensive

I am a teenager and live in New York, often hanging out around Washington Square Park which is where much of this movie takes place. I think that that's actually one of the main reasons why this movie had such a profound effect on me the first time I...

Pros: Film seems real
Cons: Obscene content, very disturbing, shallow characters

"Kids" is the most disturbing film I have ever watched. It's objective, I presume, is to show the "reality" of inner-city life for teenagers. How close this film comes, I'm not sure, but I have a feeling it exagerates if the viewer is...

Pros: realistic to a tee, convincingly acted.
Cons: explicit, grainy

Reality TV is now the rage here and even though this film was made over 5 years ago, it looks just like it was shot as a documentary. It has that gritty look to it like the cameraman was actually following the lives of these kids. The only reason I...

Pros: very real, great soundtrack, great actors, great story
Cons: it is very really and disturbing for some, but that is how it had to be

Kids is a great movie and great film making, but it is very real and gritty and may and probably will disturb most people who watch it. It is a very good portrayal of teens in general and especially inner city teens.
It contains drugs, sex,...

Pros: None
Cons: Hateful, pseudo-truth. Painful to watch.

This is a repulsive film with repugnant characters doing miserable things. I hated everyone on the screen with a passion. At every turn something more and more unforgivable happened.
And perhaps the most disturbing thing, it's filmed in a...