Maria Dizzia

At least, though the insights here aren't as plentiful as Durkin seems to think, Olsen's fine work as the off-balance, paranoid anti-hero helps to create that illusion.

The picture's 'soul'...is kindred to the anarchic underground comics its characters worship and long to create...Appropriately for a film about an 18-year-old, Funny Pages invites optimism and discomfort into a cold embrace.