2012 · comedy · coming-of-age
Project X
Directed by Nima Nourizadeh1h 28m2012
Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Our read: Project X (2012) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- funny
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How Project X feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want found-footage party chaos that escalates past every limit.”
Skip it tonight — Teen debauchery and property destruction will make you wince constantly.
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