An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye.... (Full plot summary below)
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An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye.
Leave your thoughts about kid 90.
| Consequence of SoundLauren J. CoatesThough clumsily paced and in need of a little more structure, Soleil Moon Frye’s Kid 90 is an achingly personal insight into what it means to truly understand and connect with your past, disguised as a documentary about the perils and pitfalls of childhood stardom in the blossoming age of technology. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakIt’s almost as if Frye’s childhood was stolen to some extent by this whirlwind of sensory experiences, rebellion, and dual lives she’s only now able to unpack, interpret, and acknowledge with fresh eyes recontextualizing memory through truth. |
| San Francisco ChronicleZack RuskinOther documentaries have made this point in grander, more artistic ways, but there is value in seeing this raw footage that accompanies an adolescence spent in front of the camera. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperA valuable and unique rewind glimpse of what it was like to be a teenage celebrity in the pre-Instagram era. |
| CNNBrian LowryThe destination, frankly, is probably less compelling than the journey. But Frye's wide web of contacts offers a compelling window into not only her past, but the very specific cultural moment when it all unfolded. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekIt’s not as self-absorbed as you might expect. It’s more about the nature of memory itself, the kind of movie Chris Marker might have made if, instead of an experimental filmmaker and mixed-media artist, he’d been a former Hollywood child star. |
| Paste MagazineAdesola ThomasA worthwhile effort that’s premise and delivery demonstrate the difficulty of bridging the gap between spectator and celebrity. |
| The New York TimesDevika GirishIf the unremarkableness of the moments captured in Moon Frye’s footage is refreshing, it also makes for a somewhat insipid film. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeIn many ways, Frye’s collage only makes sense to its maker, where someone else might have brought enough distance to put all this material in perspective. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001Not only does it lack coherence, but this ''documentary'' is basically Soleil Moon Frye releasing what could not be published on social media at the time, therefore it's just her ego exposing her private moments, recorded decades ago, in order to believe that someone will be interested in it beyond herself. |
