sentences:  He criticized the "amateurish" cinematography, the "half-hearted attempts at mystery" and the "wooden" cast.Salon.com's Andrew O'Hehir wrote that "Paranoid Park"s "highly aestheticized and stylized depictions of teenage life sometimes seem as if they were shot through the wrong end of a telescope".He felt that the dialogue was "repetitious" and that teenage existence as portrayed in the film was less realistic than most Hollywood clichés.