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Albatross

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United Kingdom · 2011
1h 30m
Director Niall MacCormick
Starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Treadaway, Josef Altin, Felicity Jones
Genre Drama

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Stream Albatross

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Village Voice by

By the time a disillusioned, grimly deflowered Beth leaves for school wearing her ex-friend's "I Put Out" T-shirt, tonal whiplash has eaten up the pleasures of this otherwise well-cast, evocatively shot small-town trifle.

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Entertainment Weekly by Adam Markovitz

Trite lessons are learned. Plotlines play out in familiar arcs. A few blips of sex and drug use aim to make the movie feel more grown-up. Instead, they make it off-limits to the only age group likely to find any charm in its smug Britcom cutesiness.

40

NPR by Ian Buckwalter

It's a shame that the film comes across like an awkward and ingratiating teenager, given that the two performances at its core are so winning.

70

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Niall MacCormick's direction, while unfocused, locates a sweet center in the bonding of the two young girls, effortlessly capturing the way unexpected friendship, like first love, can completely alter the look of the world.

50

Time by Mary Pols

The performances are compelling (although Jones is underused) but the thin narrative is less instructive of the strange way female friendships operate than of the way stories get recycled.

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