Admission Reviews
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
It isn't a world beater, but this gentle and heartwarming understated comedy had better not be Rudd and Fey's last as co-stars.
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| Original Score: B
American Profile
A running theme of parenthood, by nature or nurture, extends "Admission" beyond its broader comedy of mismatched-or missing-romantic partners, sight gags and punch lines.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Top CriticThe many strands of this amiable yet overstuffed romantic comedy don't hang together, though each, on its own, has a modest charm.
Cinemalogue.com
Fey's usual self-deprecating wit and charm only sporadically rise above the plot mechanics.
jackiekcooper.com
Everywhere you see Tina Fey she is hilarious - except in this movie.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Paste Magazine
Admission never gives its world-class players the opportunity to do anything but sit on the sidelines while the film goes in circles, trying to find a consistent tone without ever getting out of its own way.
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| Original Score: 6.2/10
Christianity Today
[T]he cards are stacked so heavily for the eventual winning side that Portia doesn't have to grow or change to switch sides; she just has to open her eyes.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
MediaMikes
The script was adapted from a novel but I can't imagine the book (or the characters in it) being this un-interesting.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Movies.com
So both Liz Lemon and Tina Fey got their wish. Except Liz's costs you nothing: the Grizz sitcom isn't real or asking for 100 minutes of your life. Fey's wish resulted in this movie, this dull, terrible, lifeless movie. The one where she talks to a cow.
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| Original Score: 0.5/5
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Career women, you will finds happiness by embracing your maternal instincts. Parents and high-school students, you are right to obsess over college. Tina Fey, continue your domestication process. These are among the depressing affirmations of 'Admission.'
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| Original Score: 2/4
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
A comedy, but a serious comedy.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Creative Loafing
While the idea of teaming Fey and Rudd sounds like a feasible one, the reality is that all this low-simmer niceness results in a movie that has absolutely no wit, bite or -- most shockingly -- moments of hilarity.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
We Got This Covered
What it [arguably] lacks in passion, Admission makes up for nicely in heart with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd at their light dramatic best.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Three Movie Buffs
A rather bland comedy that never rises above its sitcom premise.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Killer Movie Reviews
Fey is flawless as a stickler for rules, order, and over-rehearsed patter whose desperation to maintain an even keel at all times results in puckishly inappropriate behavior when things start to fall apart
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| Original Score: 4/5
EntertainmentTell
A comedy that's not especially funny, and a satire of the college admissions culture that isn't especially incisive
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Admission squanders its most interesting aspects, flattening them out into a tidy, dull narrative instead of running with their more outlandish aspects, or focusing deeper on the pain at the heart of the characters.
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| Original Score: 2/4
What is most distressing about Admission is that it serves as further evidence that Tina Fey, despite her dominance of the small screen, has not yet mastered the big one.
