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Critics' Reviews

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Movie Title
Avg. Score
1.
Blind Side, The
2.
Twilight Saga: New Moon, The
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49
83
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Arriving amid the traditionally withered harvest of January releases, Orange County is peachy.Read Full Review »
80
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
It's the new year's first happy surprise.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
The movie is hipper than its L.A. establishment credentials would suggest.Read Full Review »
75
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It's one of those movies like "Ghost World" and "Legally Blonde" where the description can't do justice to the experience.Read Full Review »
60
Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
A feebly pleasant surprise: It's not as cheap, loud and sleazy as it might have been, but it's also too eagerly well-meaning and indistinct to really stick. It's a piece of mildly entertaining, inoffensive fluff.Read Full Review »
60
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Starts out deliriously funny but allows sentimentality to squeeze it to a pulp by the time it's over.Read Full Review »
50
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Were it not for the high profile names of "Hanks" and "Kasdan", this would be a perfect candidate for a direct-to-video release.Read Full Review »
50
The New York Times: Dana Stevens
The gags and subplots, rather than adding up to sustained hilarity, compete with each other.Read Full Review »
50
Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Hardly the idiosyncratic Mickey Finn you'd expect from the men behind 1998's underrated "Zero Effect" and 2000's discomfort-splooge "Chuck & Buck."Read Full Review »
50
USA Today: Mike Clark
Every performer puts vigor into an otherwise limp exercise, as if word were out that this would be the last comedy ever made about late-adolescent concerns.Read Full Review »
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