86% Submarine

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The result is a small, delicate comedy that depends on a continuity of tone that it pulls off. Oliver may not live happily ever after; but he manages to live happily enough here, and that's just fine.

An exercise in briny Welsh Weltzschmerz that tracks the inner and outer worlds of a confused teenage boy.

"Submarine'' has its own specific miseries and darkly funny vibe. It makes quirkiness briefly seem like a good thing again.

For an unreliable narrator, Oliver's story is reliably entertaining.

Ayoade owes a debt to Wes Anderson, but the parents here are so beautifully written, and Hawkins and Taylor particularize them so well, that the movie manages to hold its own.

These things could have easily resulted in a mass outbreak of broad comedy, but the actors play their roles completely straight. In Submarine, you truly ache through the awkward moments -- even as you're laughing out loud.

Submarine is a closed world like the best stories, a complete movie in every sense.

As familiar as "Submarine" looked, it's hard to overlook Ayoade's natural skill as a storyteller with an affinity for character and humor. If he grows into his own visual style, he's definitely a filmmaker to keep an eye on.

Somewhere in the space between Gregory's Girl and Rushmore lies Submarine, a charming coming of age romantic comedy.

Oliver's oddball earnestness and desperation [come] across as wan affectations.

Ayoade has taken the old chestnut about each of us being the stars of the film of our life and played it out to its logical artistic extremes.

This is one you'll want to see now, before everyone else catches up with it on video and realizes how great it is, and once you see it, my guess is you'll feel just as strongly about Ayoade as I do.

A bit contrived, maybe, but with Oliver's dryly hilarious voiceover, Ayoade's eye for whimsically profound visuals, and music by Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, it makes more sense than it should.

Submarine pulls off the difficult trick of being bittersweet without being saccharine and does so with a quietly riotous aplomb.

The overall flick is okay, and I wasn't ever bored. I just would the quirkiness would have amounted to something more than just affect. (Full Content Parental Review also available)

In its own right, "Submarine" is one of the best movies of the year.

Refreshingly, it appears that Oliver and Jordana are one of the few couples in a high school movie who have sex too soon in their relationship, but don't totally regret it later, as if it all has to fit in some sort of relationship utopia.

This is Ayoade's feature debut, and it's fairly stunning.

"Submarine" is a deft/daft comedy about coming of age in a media age, when all coming-of-age problems have been cataloged in books, movies, TV.

The main problem with Submarine is that Oliver is not a likable protagonist.

The dry black humor that pervades the triumphs and tragedies of young Oliver's life has the unexpected effervescence of hyperbole

A fresh, quirky, teen-angst drama that plays out somewhat like a Welsh Rushmore.

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