This Is Our Youth - Reviews Are In

[edjames]

NYPost gave it 3 1/2 stars (out of 4):

 

http://nypost.com/2014/09/11/cera-culkin-and-gevinson-are-in-beautiful-sync-in-this-is-our-youth/

 

Still trying to figure out Ben's review but I think he liked it. I have a call into Nathan Lane and Terrance McNally for their insights.....LOL

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/theater/this-is-our-youth-stars-michael-cera-kieran-culkin-and-tavi-gevinson.html?hpw&rref=theater&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

[Jscott]

For what it's worth, I thought the kudos were a bit OTT and misplaced. Michael Cera still isn't a natural stage actor IMHO but shows tremendous promise and has moments of extraordinary poignancy. Kieran Culkin is solid (there's a brief scene in Act I where he dances suggestively and homoerotically, and it's surprisingly sexy as I'd never considered him that attractive). But I simply could not believe Tavi Gevinson. Although she had moments of -- how to put this? -- reasonably naturalistic acting (enough to wonder if the director led her astray), for the most part she was unbearably stilted and awkward. In a three-hander that's fatal. Just one man's opinion