Tanner Hall" seems to be a learning experience both for the people onscreen as much as the ones off it, leaving the expectation that there's better to come.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2019

Codirectors Francesca Gregorini and Tatiana von Furstenberg work up some believable, easygoing rapport between the young actresses, but since the story line is hackneyed, it's rapport in a vacuum.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 15, 2011

A cinematic cocktail blended from the contents of a suburban medicine cabinet, "Tanner Hall" is a girls-boarding-school movie that could bring up the bile in more than a few throats.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 14, 2011

A few moments pack some power, but the overall experience is underwhelming and a bit boring. No amount of pretty pictures has the power to fix the mess that is this script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2011

Entertaining but sometimes sophomoric coming-of-age drama about a gaggle of nice and not-so-nice rich girls at a boarding school, boasting star Rooney Mara before her Social Network/Dragon Tattoo coups.

Full Review | Sep 9, 2011

Uneven coming-of-age drama features sex, drugs, adultery.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2011

Rarely rises above the generic, though its atmosphere of coddled young people indulging themselves in opulent surroundings is palpably authentic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2011

Ultimately not even the gifted Mara can keep the film from feeling like a gauzy portrait of privilege.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2011

The performances aren't bad, but the film quickly collapses into an incoherent, tonally inconsistent muddle with no narrative momentum.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 9, 2011

Allows room for a lot of thinking about other things - its cast most notably, since watching their struggle to move beyond the mundane is painful.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2011

There are some dedicated performances, but this unfocused drama adds nothing new to the girls' boarding school film curriculum.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2011

has its charms but it's mostly full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2011

A derivative and unappealing drama about four girls at a boarding school.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2011

The result isn't bad, it just lacks momentum and a strong reason for existing.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 8, 2011

Nothing but a tone-deaf, clich-ridden mediocrity at best.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 7, 2011

There is an empathy in Tanner Hall that overcomes its familiar trappings and iffy low-budget scope.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 6, 2011

[A] tale of teenage rivalry, forbidden romance and other musty coming-of-age concerns.

Full Review | Sep 6, 2011

The story is involving but the character are types rather than authentic individuals.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 4, 2011

A misshapen beast of a film, Tanner Hall isn't so much kaleidoscopic, episodic drama as underdeveloped, perfunctory multi-character mash-up.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2011