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The Tribes of Palos Verdes
Directed by
Brendan Malloy
and
Emmett Malloy
R
2017
1h 44m
Drama
5.8
68%
57%
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When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness.
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Cast of The Tribes of Palos Verdes
Maika Monroe
Medina Mason
Jennifer Garner
Sandy Mason
Cody Fern
Jim Mason
Justin Kirk
Phil Mason
Noah Silver
Adrian
Alicia Silverstone
Ava
Elisabeth Röhm
Kristen
Goran Višnjić
Joe
Joely Fisher
Janet
Stevie Lynn Jones
Heather
Thomas Cocquerel
Mildew
Milo Gibson
Chad
Alex Neustaedter
Alex
Kaili Thorne
Cami
Scott Thomas Reynolds
Rick
Natalie Loren Kwatinetz
Gina
Brice Evan Fisher
Danny
Sarah Schroeder-Matzkin
Kiki
Amber Townsend
Amber
Tacey Adams
Expert
Tom Beyer
Anthropology Teacher
Andrew Bowen
Jack
Rolando Boyce
Police Officer
Amanda Fields
Jogger
Gio Fonseca
Vince
Gwen Holloway
Doctor 2
Eli Jane
Guest
Frederick Keeve
Country Club Guest
Natasha Kojic
Annisa / Tennis Coach (credit only)
Alex Knost
Don Edder
Omar Leyva
Doctor
Ceci Lugo
Baby at Playground
August Malloy
Boy at the Playground
Ty Malloy
Boy
April Martucci
Guest
Austin McCarthy
Kid Smoking
Rosie Trujillo
Cool Kid
Ashley Riley
Heather's Bestie
The Tribes of Palos Verdes Ratings & Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
This is pretty standard stuff, and it's not always rendered too convincingly.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
What's the point of white privilege if it doesn't protect you from disaster and despair?
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
The unvaried register of the filmmaking leads the narrative to feel aimless and dramatically inert.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Emily Yoshida
It's a gorgeous-looking, sensitively edited film to be sure, but never finds a dramatic foothold, no matter how many manic arguments and drug overdoses it throws our way.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The directors get some melancholic atmosphere out of their visuals but don't have the scene sense to build their actors' committed performances into compelling through-lines of seaside personality disintegration.
Variety
Peter Debruge
It demonstrates a remarkable sense of atmosphere and place.
New York Times
Teo Bugbee
The Malloys' filmmaking never rises to the level of the actors' nuanced performances. The actors are energized, but the camera enervates.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
Garner erupts and expectorates with winning zeal, swatting tennis balls at the mistress and lambasting the very idea of Palos Verdes beauty regimens.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
The sibling helmers know the terrain: They're Los Angeles natives with surfing docs to their credit, and they convincingly make a teen girl's awakening inseparable from her mastery of a board.
AWFJ.org
Jennifer Merin
Written by Karen Croner, the film features a strong performance from Jennifer Garner, who plays against type as Medina's emotionally unstable mother who cannot cope with her doctor husband's infidelities and his decision to end their marriage.
AWFJ.org
Cate Marquis
Maika Monroe and Cody Fern make The Tribes of Palos Verdes the success it is. Utilizing a diarylike narration the film is a slow burn through the downward spiral of one family's West Coast transition.
Film Journal International
Anna Storm
A competent coming-of-ager.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
"Verdes" isn't an upbeat film, but the production doesn't get caught in the undertow of despair, managing to find a level of alarm that keeps the story engrossing while it surveys some desperate emotional issues.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Story of a sensitive teenage girl who finds her passion and escape from family troubles in surfing.
Film Threat
Bradley Gibson
The Tribes of Palos Verdes is one version of a story you've seen before. Sometimes cautionary tales bear repeating and when it's this beautifully photographed you'll be drawn in quickly and enjoy the ennui with the California sunsets.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
... strains credibility while detouring into heavy-handed melodrama, and doesn't provide many avenues for audience sympathy.
Pittsburgh City Paper
Al Hoff
Things get worse, in ways that are predictable, but the film unfolds so languidly that it ultimately feels more sad than melodramatic.
Punch Drunk Critics
Travis Hopson
It's a competent effort that captures the mood and atmosphere of a gilded paradise that may as well be on another planet.
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
In another movie, their hard to articulate relationship might be compelling, enigmatic, appealing. Here, though, it's tragedy around the corner, at once too obvious and too elusive.
AWFJ.org
MaryAnn Johanson
Maika Monroe and Jennifer Garner shine in as a mother and daughter at odds with each other but both deeply impacted by toxic masculinity *and* toxic consumerism...
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