Chronicle

James Berardinelli / ReelViews
Feb 03, 2012
Chronicle is the kind of movie that makes one excited about the future prospects of the man at the helm.

Eric D. Snider / Film.com
Feb 03, 2012
Without the found-footage distraction, Chronicle is an entertaining and creative take on the concept of teenage superpowers.

Todd McCarthy / Hollywood Reporter
Feb 03, 2012
Although it dog-legs into silly mayhem in the homestretch, for a good portion of its quick 83-minute running time Chronicle is a quite clever boys-gone-wild-on-telekinetic-powers fantasy.

Adam Graham / Detroit News
Feb 03, 2012
Chronicle puts a fresh, invigorating spin on the superhero origin story, a tale Hollywood spins again and again (and again).

Owen Gleiberman / Entertainment Weekly
Feb 03, 2012
Based on Chronicle, it's clear that Trank has the right stuff to move up to big-budget fantasy movies. If he wants to, that is. In a lot of ways, he has already beaten the studios at their game.

Stephen Whitty / Newark Star-Ledger
Feb 03, 2012
As a surprise entry in the mid-winter movie doldrums, "Chronicle" is a modest charmer.

Joe Neumaier / New York Daily News
Feb 03, 2012
"Chronicle" is an energetic hodgepodge that tweaks familiar conventions just enough to seem fresh. Forget the X-Men - these are iHeroes.

Rick Groen / Globe and Mail
Feb 03, 2012
Once again, the conceit collapses along with the movie, and all that's left is third-act mayhem.

Peter Howell / Toronto Star
Feb 03, 2012
As yet another found-footage film, Chronicle makes a good argument against further use of this tired conceit.

Kyle Smith / New York Post
Feb 03, 2012
With great power comes the responsibility to make a decent movie, but the mysterious force running through "Chronicle" is the power to supersuck.

Mark Jenkins / Washington Post
Feb 03, 2012
A pretty good idea for a sci-fi thriller is undermined by hastiness - and by the pretense that it was mostly shot by one of its protagonists.

Claudia Puig / USA Today
Feb 02, 2012
It's a testament to Trank's capable direction that the movie feels so grounded in reality. There is no sense of the magical in the goings-on, even though what the boys are doing defies logic and gravity.

Amy Biancolli / San Francisco Chronicle
Feb 02, 2012
[It] deconstructs the conventional superhero narrative and reassembles it as a canny discourse on impulse control and the troubled teen psyche.

Manohla Dargis / New York Times
Feb 02, 2012
Mr. Russell and Mr. Jordan are as likable as their characters, but it's Mr. DeHaan who pulls you uneasily in.

Ty Burr / Boston Globe
Feb 02, 2012
"Chronicle'' will never be mistaken for an artistic breakthrough, but it has a solid gimmick and pieces of it are brilliant.

Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
Feb 02, 2012
The potent and provocative journey in Chronicle never stops springing surprises. You'll be hooked.

Betsy Sharkey / Los Angeles Times
Feb 02, 2012
This mind-and-fork-bending sci-fi saga comes from the freaky imaginations of director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max Landis, who've packed their feature debut with smartness.

Steven Rea / Philadelphia Inquirer
Feb 02, 2012
This is how the young Clark Kent must have felt. If Clark Kent had been on Facebook.

John Anderson / Newsday
Feb 02, 2012
This very promising feature debut by director Josh Trank turns into one smart thriller, a parable of unchecked power, and an action film in which the action -- although seen through a viewfinder -- carries the viewer away.

Richard Corliss / TIME Magazine
Feb 02, 2012
The simultaneously diverting and annoying Chronicle, directed by Josh Trask, is something like the 184th Found-Footage Faux-Doc horror movie of the past few years.

Chronicle Cast:

• Alex Russell
• Ashley Hinshaw
• Dane DeHaan
• Michael B. Jordan
• Michael Kelly