Rotten
Excruciating ... an unwieldy hybrid of high school dance competition movie and shameless flag-waver.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Overview
After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
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Rotten
First-time director Daniel Duran, working from a screenplay by Oscar Torres that abounds in the maudlin and risible, isn't able to lift the ham-handed material to a place where it might ring true.
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
There is nothing brave about "Bravetown," a film so paint-by-the-numbers bland that its efforts to piggyback the sacrifice of American servicemen and women for emotional depth is downright craven.
Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic
Rotten
I would call the movie a trainwreck, except it's really four or five separate trainwrecks.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten
This isn't "Bravetown." It's Crazytown.
Stephen Whitty, New York Daily News
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