The Kings of Summer

...doesn’t take itself seriously; short of having the actors break character, it’ll do anything for a laugh.

...features a troika of instantly likeable, utterly believable performances...

...a sunny and reasonably funny coming-of-ager from Sundance-ratified debutant Jordan Vogt-Roberts.

...to its credit, is going after a deeper more existential truth, common to most coming-of-age movies, the fact that teenagers are not only looking for freedom, but meaning in their lives.

It's a dark, initially interesting dynamic that the filmmakers set as story's central...