Just as good as everyone says

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2000)

Honest, beautiful, ugly, sneaky, clever, open, cautious, revealing, reckless, wonderfully alive. A seamless criscrossing of the glory and raw-nerve connectedness of youth with the wisdom and foolishness of age, shaking each of them until the truth falls out all over poor Lester Burnham. By the time it's closed its circle, it has done what all the best films do --- it has set your own mind and heart into motion.