sentences:  He praised the "lovely" cinematography and the credibility of the female characters, though he felt that the soundtrack was sometimes distracting.Writing for "New York" magazine, David Edelstein opined that the film was "a supernaturally perfect fusion of Van Sant's current conceptual-art-project head-trip aesthetic and Blake Nelson's finely tuned first-person 'young adult' novel".He felt that "Paranoid Park" was different from Van Sant's previous "experimental" films in that "it works", though he criticized Nevins's "clinically inexpressive" acting.