Goats
Fifteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave his luxurious home in the foothills of Tucson for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school. This means separating from his flaky, new age mother and the only real father he has ever known: Goat Man.
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August 14, 2012
A movie that isn't terrible, but--apart from the goat fixation and Duchovny's zonked-out turn--doesn't offer much that hasn't been done elsewhere, and often better.
August 10, 2012
If I were Holden Caulfield, I might call it lousy.
August 08, 2012
... a stubborn, mangy, tangled-haired mutt of a movie -- one that could have used a little more guidance and construction and a little less free-range 'quirkiness.'
August 11, 2012
This is a very effecting drama about a teenage boy buffeted by starkly contrasting role models from the adult world.
August 23, 2012
A sweet junket into the land of the new agers, and youth that refuses to grow old.
August 10, 2012
Nibbles on a lot of stuff it never gets around to digesting.
August 09, 2012
If Mr. Neil had the tonal mastery of Wes Anderson, "Goats" could have been so much more than an episodic sequence of whimsical little psychodramas.
August 16, 2012
A strong cast and the sweet and simple nature of the script (based on the novel by Mark Poirier) makes Goats a charming little indie tale worth the viewing.
August 09, 2012
[The] solid cast ... can't make the film feel like anything more than a meander through the familiar-feeling angst of a privileged teenager.
August 10, 2012
The actors struggle to seem off-handed, much as the script does. Goats needs to be more goat-like in every way - unbridled, untamed, randy - and it never is.
August 09, 2012
"Goats" is just b-a-a-a-aad.
