62
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottMs. Abt provides an unusually honest, compassionate and challenging view of contemporary youth, neither sugarcoated nor prurient.
- For good stretches, Toe to Toe has an engaging frankness about youthful liberty as both a weighty armor and a dangerously alluring escape hatch.
- 63Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadayResourceful, if occasionally forced, teen melodrama.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineSteve RamosBoxoffice MagazineSteve RamosMoving and more ambitious than a CW serial drama or the long-ago ABC After School Specials because its honesty outweighs its occasionally trite dialogue and sometimes false scenes.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe performances are top-notch and occasionally moving, but Abt nearly smothers it all with some embarrassing coming-of-age teen-angst false notes, plus clichéd Ivy League ambitions, a cartoonishly neglectful mother, STDs, unfair expulsion, martyrdom for both the rich and poor, and a non-reciprocal lesbian crush.
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIt’s a shame that Toe to Toe adheres so stridently to Indiewood clichés.