Adventureland

By Stephen Snart

A hugely enjoyable blend of humor and agony that captures the confused, painful, but open-ended state of late adolescence. [2 September 2009]

Adventureland

By Renee Scolaro Mora

Adventureland is as tidy and predictable as it sounds. And it falls into that annoying trap that seems to plague this sort of film, relying on an unrelenting '80s soundtrack to set tones and cue plot points. [3 April 2009]

Short Ends and Leader: Adventureland (2009): Blu-ray

Short Ends and Leader: Adventureland: Bastards of Young

A loping comedy of displacement that snaps off dozens of easy laughs without breaking a sweat, Adventureland transcends the indie comedy trap by dint of not being content merely to capture its milieu but to animate it. [8 April 2009]