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Rocket Science
Grade: A

Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound) won top directing honors at Sundance for this dark coming-of-age comedy about a stuttering teenager cast adrift in the fast-talking world of high school debate competitions. Like Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse and Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, the film delivers a razor sharp screenplay and a breakthrough performance by an unknown teen actor. The charmingly gawky Reece Thompson evokes all the humiliation, heartaches and transient joy that adolescence has to offer. Fargo fans can rejoice that Steve Park of Mike Yanagita fame has a hilarious supporting role.