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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40Village VoiceJoshua LandVillage VoiceJoshua LandTodd Verow's overstuffed Vacationland promises more than it delivers in just about every sense.
- 38TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThough Verow attended the American Film Institute and has made more than a dozen shorts and features since 1994, his low-budget gay-themed films are characterized by phenomenal indifference to framing, sound quality and performance. If his relentless amateurishness is deliberate, it's self-defeating; if not, it's inexplicable: Most people who do anything for more than a decade get better at it.
- A generic coming-of-age movie whose arrival on the scene suggests that the audience for gay indie clunkers is inexhaustible.
- 25New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe autobiographical script meanders and the acting never solidifies. Besides, the leads look too old to be in high school - maybe even college.