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Set on the last day of the school year, THE WE AND THE I follows a group of Bronx high schoolers who board a city bus on their way home. With summer break ahead of them, and feeling more liberated than usual, this broad array of kids–the cool ones, the outsiders, and everyone in between–act out as only teenagers can and, in the course of one afternoon, their friendships, rivalries, ambitions, and anxieties are revealed.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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- 88Chicago Sun-Times - by Michal Oleszczyk
Upon leaving the theater I had a feeling like I just got to know a bunch of kids: some great, some annoying, but all living lives that extend beyond what little I saw of them on the screen. ...read more - 88Slant Magazine - by Jesse Cataldo
A delirious representation of incipient personalities in bloom, its form as amorphous and reckless as the vibrant youths it portrays. ...read more - 70Village Voice - by Michelle Orange
At its finest and most affecting, The We and the I is a window onto youth’s forever moments ...read more - 67The A.V. Club - by Tasha Robinson
The problem with The We And The I: Gondry is focused more on moments than on the film as a whole. ...read more - 60The Guardian - by Henry Barnes
Gondry's argument – that pack mentality crushes individual expression – follows a similarly predictable route, but there's enough of his signature playfulness (especially in the use of mobile-phone footage to present flashbacks) to keep the journey entertaining. ...read more - 40Time Out New York - by David Fear
By the end of the ride, the movie’s messy humanity has officially calcified into After-School Special clichés; given the choice between handcrafted whimsy and heavy-handedness, we’ll take the former, thanks. ...read more - 25The Playlist - by James Rocchi
Muddled, muffled and mixing empty comedy with empty dramatics, The We and the I is an abject failure. ...read more
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The kind of outspoken and honest portrait of youth that is extremely efficient with the use of non-professional actors and a loose storytelling, rambling on from one casual talk to another while always keeping our full interest in the flesh-and-bone characters.