A Kid Like Jake's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
[A] simply lovely comedy-drama.
The Playlist
With capable performances and a smart, character-focused script, this film balances its formal conventions with narrative nerve, ultimately making for a satisfying ? if not show-stopping ? watch.
Los Angeles Times
Though its vibe is often too meandering, A Kid Like Jake shows that even the most accepting of environments aren?t immune to the vulnerabilities and worries coursing through any well-intended parent?s soul
Indiewire
Silas Howard?s new film is nothing if not well-attuned to the difference between the purity of sharing the right values and the messiness of actually living with them.
Roger Ebert
Tackles the tricky topic of gender dysphoria with sensitivity and grace.
New York Times
Directed by Silas Howard from a screenplay by Daniel Pearle, who adapted his own stage play, A Kid Like Jake is humane, compassionate and strangely detached, almost to the point of inconsequentiality.
Variety
The movie doesn?t feel like it?s going anywhere until it explodes, and the dazzling fireworks don?t quite offset its long, seemingly aimless fuse
The Wrap
The writing in A Kid Like Jake feels more like playwriting than like screenwriting because we are told things in dialogue about Jake but barely ever get to see him behaving.