Thumbsucker

"Thumbsucker" doesn't suck, at all! It's also not just another teen-angst flick. It is a funny, thoughtful, and enjoyable movie. I would give this two thumbs up! Although the movie revolves around Justin, a thoughtful, sensitive, teenager who happens to have... Full review

There was a time when, in the western world, there wasn't a word for what we now know as 'teenager'. I've no doubt everyone nevertheless experienced all those emotions and thought processes that we go through in making the transition from... Full review

When you get to the end of Thumbsucker, it's kind of like turning off an emotional blender you've just spent an hour and a half spinning around in. But I guess after I left the theatre I was a little sad,... Full review

I sucked my thumb as a child. But unlike Lou Taylor Pucci's character in this film, I had quit sucking my thumb long before high school. Justin is a senior in high school, he's shy, awkward, insecure, and his self-esteem is... Full review

"Thumbsucker", one of the most original movies playing locally, deserves to be seen by a wider audience. Mike Mills, its director, has adapted Walter Kirn's novel with honesty and integrity, giving the viewer a picture of a young man and his... Full review

Greetings again from the darkness. Very few things provide me the thrill of watching a movie with a great story, interesting characters, wonderful acting and professional direction. This is the case even when I realize that of all the people I... Full review

this movie was absolutely beautiful in so many ways. as an adolescent Justin, the main character, struggles with trying to stop sucking his thumb, the film creatively explores issues of identity, self-worth, achievement, family dynamics and so many other elements of... Full review

I saw Thumbsucker yesterday at Helsinki Movie Festival and was really positively surprised. I was not expecting much from a teen movie, but this one really made its way to my heart. The story is about a 17-year-old Justin who has... Full review

Keanu Reeves is so funny in this movie. He has some superb lines to deliver, and superbly done. I couldn't decide if there was some tongue in cheek writing going on while thinking about his previous roles in Point Break and... Full review

I was really expecting to not like Thumbsucker. I don't care for "teen angst" movies. Now having seen Thumbsucker, I'm really confused as to why Sony would market it in this genre (teen angst = teen $, I guess) and why... Full review

Thumbsucker is not always comfortable Reeves, sending up that laidback persona that made him famous, is simply hilarious. Vaughn gives yet another clinic in how to be effortlessly funny. ... Full Review

To his credit, Mills generates thoughtful performances from his excellent cast. Like his forbearers, Mills sets up his film with a personal touch, using deliberate, dreamy pacing and striking widescreen visual schemes. ... Full Review

The acting in this film is superb. Mike Mills makes his feature-length debut with "Thumbsucker," a delightfully acted and dry comedic drama about Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci), a 17-year-old who literally still sucks. ... Full Review

Thumbsucker" is a modest movie, but its refusal of large gestures and loud noises is a decided virtue. The trait that distinguishes Justin from his numerous literary and cinematic peers is the one that gives this smart, quiet film, adapted from Walter Kirn's novel, its name. ... Full Review

If thought of as a series and snapshots and vignettes, Thumbsucker adds up to fully satisfying portrait of one teenage year. It covers no real new territory for a top-tier indie, and yet it's an extremely satisfying film to sit through, funny and bittersweet, and unexpectedly epic in its emotional range. ... Full Review

Hal's story is largely informed by Blitz's own personal experiences. Not only did Blitz struggle with a chronic stutter (it still flares up from time to time, most notably, Blitz says, on the phone), but he also a high school... ... Full Article

"Some dumb babysitter holds your mouth shut so she can watch her soap operas in peace, and at 40 you wonder why you can't stay married." ... Full Article

Justin Cobb (LOU PUCCI) still sucks his thumb at 17. He wants to stop and knows that his thumbsucking is disrupting his family, his love life and his identity. The only thing that changes his behavior is hypnosis therapy administered ... Full Article

Although the intellectual level of "Thumbsucker" is quite a few cuts above many teen angst movies and the film boasts several impressively nuanced portrayals as well, it is not sufficiently distinctive to stand wholly apart from the pack. Furthermore, its ... Full Article

As movies about troubled adolescents who find comfort in regressive infantile habits and the soothing voice of Keanu Reeves go, this new one rises to the very tippy-top. ... Full Article