
Fifteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave his luxurious home in the foothills of Tucson for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school. This means leaving behind Wendy, his flaky, new age mother and the only real father he has ever known, Goat Man.... (Full plot summary below)
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Fifteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave his luxurious home in the foothills of Tucson for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school. This means leaving behind Wendy, his flaky, new age mother and the only real father he has ever known, Goat Man.
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| AV ClubAlison WillmoreIt's a strange stunt of a role for Duchovny, who even when playing characters indulging in sex, drugs, or conspiracy theories, has the air of a savvy urbanite, a quality he can't submerge while trying to act as a perpetually high mystic. |
| Film.comJordan HoffmanDespite the ever-escalating cost of private education, there are still some who feel that there's no character more empathetic than a boarding school lad. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA movie that isn't terrible, but--apart from the goat fixation and Duchovny's zonked-out turn--doesn't offer much that hasn't been done elsewhere, and often better. |
| VarietyRob NelsonThis monotonously deadpan coming-of-age comedy has little to recommend it beyond some beautiful widescreen cinematography and the momentary kick of seeing David Duchovny looking like a stoned Jesus as Goat Man. |
| OK! MagazinePhil VillarrealPretty, confused and thrilling to analyze and revisit, Goats is just like adolescence. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerIncapable of energizing Mark Poirier's leaden script (based on his own novel), Christopher Neil directs with a mechanical blandness made more tedious still by a score of gentle guitar strumming so aggravatingly benign it might inspire you to partake in one of Wendy's climactic, cathartic primal screams. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonA capable cast can't elevate this mediocre coming-of-age comedy. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonA sweet junket into the land of the new agers, and youth that refuses to grow old. |
| The PlaylistTodd GilchristOverall, it's not that Neil's directorial debut is boring or even disappointing, it's that it's just unexceptional – almost exactly the sort of dime-a-dozen growing-up story that's become a Sundance/ independent film world cliché. |
| Paste MagazineShannon M. HoustonA strong cast and the sweet and simple nature of the script (based on the novel by Mark Poirier) makes Goats a charming little indie tale worth the viewing. |