Rotten
"Beware the Gonzo" isn't bad, it's just that for a film aiming to celebrate media rebellion it feels timid and unadventurous.
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Overview
Eddie "Gonzo" Gilman is starting a revolution. When the wild-eyed rebel journalist is ousted from his prep school's newspaper by its über-popular editor, Eddie fronts an underground movement to give a voice to all the misfits, outcasts, and nerds. Soon the power of the press is in Eddie's hands... but will he use it wisely?
Director and cast
- Bryan Goluboff Director
- Zoë Kravitz as Evie Wallace
- Ezra Miller as Eddie 'Gonzo' Gilman
- Ming-Na Wen as Stefanie Y. Hong
- Campbell Scott as Arthur Gilman
- Amy Sedaris as Diane Gilman
- Judah Friedlander as Cafeteria Guy
- James Urbaniak as Principal Roy
- Marc John Jefferies as Stone
- Noah Fleiss as Ryan
- Tyrone Marshall Brown as Johnny Rock
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
44%
Tomatometer
Rotten
"Beware the Gonzo" is a thoroughly amateurish effort at capturing clued-in and smartass teens.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Fresh
With its stacked moral deck, student stereotypes and false, halfhearted ending, "Beware the Gonzo" is really formula straining at the seams to be more.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
Creates a recognizably adolescent milieu that's also a workable metaphor for the anxieties of the 21st-century press corps.
Eric Hynes, Time Out New York
Rotten
Too cute by half.
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
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