Marc Webb’s new movie, in contrast, uses the song for its title, the name of an in-movie manuscript, and as a late-breaking song cue that doesn’t drop the needle so much as clunk it down with turgid inevitability.

Jesse Hassenger

The A.V. Club

Even the best actors – and this coming-of-age movie boasts a handful of them – can't fight this much tin-eared dialogue.

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

The best thing about “Living Boy” is the performance of Cynthia Nixon, who plays Thomas’ emotionally unstable mother.

David Lewis

San Francisco Chronicle