Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Izzy Adkins The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

airpear I was genuinely enjoying the movie up until Millie viciously stabs a snail. This upset me so much that I spent the next fifteen minutes searching to find if it was a real snail. Well, he was real and his life was sacrificed because they were too cheap and lazy to use a prop. Once I found out the director admitted it was a real snail, I was completely taken out of the movie. I no longer cared about the kid who died in fiction... all I could think of was the poor snail who died undoubtedly felt pain before he finally died. I created this account just so I could voice how upset I was after enduring that horrific scene. Hopefully, one day, all forms of life will have to be treated humanely in the movie business. RIP snail.

gridoon2018 "Mean Creek" is at times so riveting, tense and portentous that you forget you're watching a movie; it feels like you're watching the filming of real events as they're unfolding before your eyes. This is all the more impressive considering that this was the feature-length directing and writing debut of Jacob Aaron Estes, and that he is working almost exclusively with child and teen actors: they are all terrific, but Josh Peck is the revelation. If you only know him from Nickelodeon's "Drake and Josh", boy you're in for a surprise! The locations are magnificent, and may inspire you to take a creek trip some weekend. My only reservation has to do with the abrupt ending; I would have liked to see the story continue. *** out of 4.

Eddie Kureczka For the first two acts of this movie, I was mesmerized by its perfection. The screenplay, some of the best kid acting I have ever seen, and the engaging direction used had a way of pulling me into the film and truly connect with its massive heart and statements on the youth today. The first two acts of this film are just quite simply flawless.Throughout the movie in my mind for the rating I was going "ten, ten ,ten, ten, ten...", then all of a sudden, one of the stupidest actions I have ever seen done by a group of characters happen and this movie dropped to a 7 for me. I am not giving away what happened, but oh my god I have never seen such a group of mindless idiots of characters in my entire life, and from the point on after they make this certain decision, I was yelling at every character enraged by their stupid decision. I know that the fact what they did was stupid is part of the point, but it is way to hard to take what these morons did seriously.I seriously wish the ending of this movie held up because it truly was a perfect film up until this point. I would recommend seeing this movie, but I would shut it off after these characters decide their mindless fate because everything from that point on is unoriginal, predictable, and offensively stupid. GRADE: 83 / B.

gemini_dremz I finally got the opportunity to see this film and I was really taken in. The actors are all perfect for their roles and the storyline, though a fiction, could very well be real. The story of kids who start out with a gag that turns deadly. It shows the innocence of middle and high schoolers who want to be tough and fit in, yet in the end show their true humanity. I like the way the director lets the viewer inside the mind of a bully and his desire to be liked, even by his victims. Then we see how mean he really is and your empathy for him disappears, almost applauding his demise. Of course no one wants to see a kid die, but everyone wants justice. Even though his death was a accident, the rest of the group grapple with doing the right thing and finally come to the decision, after being convinced by their leader, that burying him and hiding the secret is what's best for all. However, the others decide that it's best to tell and they do while the leader of the group runs and inevitably turns to crime as we see when he robs a convenient store. It's not fast paced, high energy or violent. Instead it has a steady pace throughout and though there is some graphic language a scene of nudity and sexual suggestions, it's pretty clean. The only problem I saw with the film is when the youngest boy takes the police to where the body is buried and they bring the mother along. I've never known any family member being taken to the scene of the crime/burial site. Other than that, I enjoyed the film and recommend it.