Upon making a plan to murder a young girl at school, two young teenagers, who are totally different in everything, thinking and lifestyle, struggle against survival, as they are followed by the police, the thing that challenges them.
As long as Schroeder stays with the kids, the film musters a good deal of restless tabloid intensity, and even the occasional twinge of pathos.
Ebert & Roeper
April 22, 2002
Bullock is good, the script is not.
Urban Cinefile
October 26, 2002
Director Barbet Schroeder, whose Barfly (1987) remains one of the most memorable in my mental filmbank, shoots this script with the kind of concentrated power that turns every scene into the most effective tool emotionally as well as expositionally.
