The Miseducation of Cameron Post's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
This is a gripping and sad drama that puts a tremendous amount of faith in its performers and audience, and for all the emotion and tenderness in the rest of this year?s Sundance crop, this is the first film that left me a complete broken-down mess by the end.
New York Times
Satire and outrage are easier approaches than the tact and empathy Ms. Akhavan deploys. The Miseducation of Cameron Post, confident in its beliefs and curious about what makes its characters tick, is more interested in listening than in preaching.
The Hollywood Reporter
Akhavan elicits finely layered performances from her cast. Moretz digs deeper than she has in years for a sensitive lead turn that harmonizes especially well with her co-stars.
Indiewire
?The Miseducation of Cameron Post? is a small movie, far too modest and knowing to surrender to melodrama and apply cosmetic fixes to deep wounds (the film?s one big speech is its least convincing scene), but it beautifully articulates the need for young people to realize the validity of who they are.
Los Angeles Times
In its own modest way, it?s one of the year?s bravest films.
The Playlist
Where Akhavan succeeds is whenever she has the kids doing things teenagers would be doing.
Rolling Stone
What a shame that this well-meaning look at the absurdity of gay conversion camps ? it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year ? lacks the teeth to make its points stick.
The Wrap
So we have a compelling storyline, and characters we genuinely care about. But since Akhavan doesn?t drill deeply enough, the movie ends at what should be its midpoint. And her lovely final shot winds up feeling as avoidant as it is poignant.
Variety
The best part of ?Miseducation? is the diverse group of adolescents sharing Cameron?s experience.
The New Yorker
The director, Desiree Akhavan, who wrote the script with Cecilia Frugiuele (adapting a novel by Emily M. Danforth), expresses and elicits apt outrage, but the action is schematic and the characters are thinly sketched.