sentences:  "Rolling Stone"s Peter Travers awarded the film 3.5 out of 4 stars and commented that the combination of the soundtrack with the "visual miracles" of the cinematography, "a defiant slap at slick Hollywood formula, is mesmerizing".In a review for "The Hollywood Reporter", Kirk Honeycutt named the film "one of [Van Sant's] best movies yet".Alternatively, William Arnold of the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" graded the film as a C+ and described it as "a movie about its teen hero's inability to express his feelings