10,000 Saints
A teen (Asa Butterfield), a pregnant girl (Hailee Steinfeld) and the lead singer (Emile Hirsch) of a punk-rock band form their own surrogate family in the age of CBGB's, yuppies and the tinderbox of gentrification that exploded into the Tompkins Square Park Riots in New York's East Village in the 1980s.
1 July 1971, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
18 October 1985, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
11 December 1996, Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 November 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
12 October 1995, Islington, London, England, UK
6 November 1970, Austin, Texas, USA
1 December 1971, London, England, UK
22 March 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 March 1985, Palms, California, USA
August 28, 2015
The movie feels like a quickly-sketched version of something much, much bigger.
August 27, 2015
For a movie with extremely loud punk-rock music at its core, "Ten Thousand Saints" is a pleasantly low-key experience; it's a small-scale character drama about learning to live with loss.
August 13, 2015
"Ten Thousand Saints" pulsates with full-blooded supporting characters who create a tragic-absurd tapestry of decay and rebellion in the Ronald Reagan years, from depressed New England to volatile New York. It's too bad the center cannot hold.
August 20, 2015
Ethan Hawke is so funny in Ten Thousand Saints that he nearly keeps the movie afloat.
February 25, 2016
Equal parts sensitive and overwrought, intelligent and preachy.
April 22, 2016
Lacks resonance and a steady directorial hand.
August 20, 2015
The film shows all the earmarks of a story too heavily compressed; the complications among the entwined families pile up after a while, and the period milieu feels arbitrary.
September 02, 2015
The emotionally uneven film is more intriguing in parts than as a whole, with the periphery characters often more compelling than the somewhat passive protagonist.
August 18, 2015
The cinematography by Ben Kutchins works more from grime than grim, capturing a battered backdrop for the characters rather than a cartoon battlefield of drugs and crime/
August 14, 2015
It's a sensitive and interesting film.
August 20, 2015
It's far from a perfect film, but when it locks on to an emotionally complex moment, the feature succeeds more than a fails.
August 20, 2015
Jude, our narrator, is paper thin. His most memorable qualities are his gangly frame and his bright blue eyes.
