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The Girl Next Door Page 2 “He's got great comic timing and he's immensely likable”- Kevin N. Laforest, Montreal Film Journal “a talented and likeable young comic actor”- Kevin Lally, Film Journal International “Hirsch is sensitive and funny as a high school kid for whom life's tensions are converging.”- Mike LaSalle, San Fransisco Chronicle “Relative unknown actor Hirsch is highly convincing as the uneasy Matthew. A more experienced actor in the same part would have taken away from the role’s authentic feel.”- David Levine, FilmCritic.com “The Girl Next Door" marks its director and scripters as talents to watch and affirms that its young star, Emile Hirsch, is a big-screen natural.”- Sheri Linden, the Hollywood Reporter “Toplining the able cast, Hirsch ("The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys," "The Emperor's Club") displays leading-man charisma, sincerity and outstanding comic abilities -- just watch him in the scenes when Matthew finds himself dosed with Ecstasy.”- Sheri Linden “But the film is about Matthew, and the comparatively unknown Hirsch sparkles in the role, embodying determination, innocence and puppy love with just the right slyness on top.”- Tom Long, The Detroit News “Emile Hirsch, who had a small but key role in The Emperor's Club makes a breakthrough in The Girl Next Door. Looking like a young Leonardo Di Caprio, he plays Matt, a high school senior who has apparently never seen a woman before.” – Marty Mapes, Movie Habit “Olyphant and Hirsch (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and The Emperor's Club) show signs of true screen presence, giving their characters shading and magnetism far beyond the script (and even farther beyond the other performers).”- Nell Minow, Movie Mom “While the lonely and awkward high-school boy, with a couple of geeky friends, is not a new device in movies, rarely has it been played so well and with such a script. I feel assured that this movie will push Hirsch into the spotlight.”- Scott Nash, Three Movie Buffs “I see potentially great things in the making for Emile Hirsch, who should hopefully prove here that he is one of the best teenage actors in the business, and only my general distaste for sweeping statements prevents me from saying "the best." In my review of The Emperor's Club, I wrote that he was a "tremendous physical actor," and I reiterate wholeheartedly: he has an uncanny way of letting you know precisely what his character is thinking without saying a word. He has so many scenes that could have gone horribly wrong -- not least one where Matt comes to a scholarship banquet high on ecstasy -- but they all turn out so right.”—Eugene Novokov, Film Blather “The Girl is the movie that's going to make Hirsch a star”- John Popick, Planet Sick-Boy “is no reason why Emile Hirsch (2002's "The Emperor's Club") shouldn't become the next Tom Cruise. As Matthew, Hirsch is superb, mixing hesitancy and fear with hidden strength he realizes he has along the way.”—Dustin Putman, The Movie Boy “And although its romantic chemistry is somewhat undercut by Cuthbert’s mostly vacant acting, Hirsch makes up for it with leading-man aplomb. His innocent look (think River Phoenix with Jason Bateman’s “Hogan Family” haircut) adds to the authenticity. And although we’ve seen the inadvertently-high-on-drugs-at-important-moment bit before, he endows his cute little speech of love during it with the proper romantic dedication.”- Nick Rogers, The State Journal-Register “Hirsch hasn't shown much to this point, but has a breakthrough role here, showing physical comedy skill and leading-boy charm”- Gary Thompson, Philadelphia Daily News “Hirsch, who has already shown his chops in "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" and the underrated "The Emperor's Club," is a natural with the ability to develop into a formidable actor.”- Desson Thomson, Washington Post Dangerous Lives Page 1 Dangerous Lives Page 2 Emperor's Club The Mudge Boy The Girl Next Door Page 1 The Girl Next Door Page 3 |
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