Prejudice, fear and miscommunication threaten the tentative friendship of Tyler and Mari, but this pair of sympathetic protagonists transcend those challenges and support each other through the challenges of personal loss and adolescence. (edutopia.org)
But in a way, it's a nice companion piece to The Americans, in that the main characters are not your traditionally sympathetic protagonists. (metacritic.com)
neediness, centered on a more sympathetic protagonist. (film.avclub.com)