Admission Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Everywhere you see Tina Fey she is hilarious - except in this movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

A comedy, but a serious comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

What it [arguably] lacks in passion, Admission makes up for nicely in heart with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd at their light dramatic best.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

When Admission is over, you're left with the feeling that you've seen something whole, complete, and enjoyable - albeit not all that memorable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Once Weitz makes up his mind, 'Admission' finds its voice as a drama in time to reach a satisfying conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

[Weitz] wrings out solid humor from Portia's comic struggles to balance her professionalism with her newly unearthed maternal instincts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

An alternately comical and thought-provoking cautionary tale that's every bit as hilarious as it is sobering.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's not often a film comes along that's just as much fun to watch with your parents as it is to watch with your partner or friends, but Admission is just that sort of film.

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... a wonderfully entertaining comedy with good pace and sparkling performances...

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Teen-friendly comedy has laughs but is uneven.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

If Fey ends up making movies as good as this one over the next few years, television's loss will have been cinema's gain, for real.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

These guys could make taxes seem charming. Pair them up romantically and surround them with a competent three-act screenplay and the rest takes care of itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's nothing that will knock your cinematic socks off and the performers clearly aren't stretching much, but it's charming and pleasant enough to keep the pic from failing. (Complete Content Details for Parents also available)

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Tina Fey once again excels at portraying a modern woman beset by very modern struggles and expectations.

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You'll be glad you enrolled.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

This would be a good movie for a parent to watch with a high-school-age child facing down the college admissions slog-it's mildly snarky but resolutely uncynical.

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Some films are electric - Admission settles for alternating current.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4