‘Shoplifters of the World’ Film Review: Teen Angst Gets a Soundtrack by the Smiths
thewrap.comAlso Read: 'Nobody' Film Review: Bob Odenkirk Blows His Stack and His Cover in Delirious Shoot 'Em Up“Shoplifters,” though, doesn’t have the vitality of those films; it’s an ensemble coming-of-age film whose characters struggle to get beyond the first Smiths song that serves as a chapter title, “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.” And while its best moments do testify to the way the right song can make sense of the world, it mostly uses the music as a backdrop for jumbled teen coming-of-age melodramas.The setting is Denver 1987, on the September day when the news breaks that the Smiths have broken up.
When she hears the news, Cleo (Helena Howard, “Madeline’s Madeline”) lets out a scream, then heads to the local record store to commiserate with.
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