sentences:  "New York Press" critic Armond White wrote that, in the film, "Van Sant reaches out to teen subculture, only to embalm its dissatisfaction in artiness" and found it to be "full of art-movie clichés".David Edwards, writing for "The Daily Mirror", called the film "Dreary with a capital D" and "slow, melancholic, but mostly just plain weird".The film appeared on numerous critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008