Admission Reviews
Toledo Blade
Depending on your point of view, then, Admission is either a so-so comedy, or a quirky drama that's never fully formed.
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| Original Score: 2/4
NECN
Admission doesn't just misfire, it flatlines.
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| Original Score: D
CraveOnline
The comedy doesn't seem very funny when real emotional damage is inflicted, and the drama doesn't work when the set-ups are so hard to justify in a real world context.
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| Original Score: 4.5/10
Schmoes Know
They have their comedic moments for sure, but too often this movie just feels like something we've seen before, and it ends up just being an average time at the movies.
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| Original Score: 2.5
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
Slant Magazine
The estrogenic elements prove widely ineffectual, but they're just pieces of this overlong, overloaded misfire whose double-entendre title ultimately just goads the jaded viewer to admit defeat.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
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
Bullz-Eye.com
Not even Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, arguably two of Hollywood's most likable performers, are able to do much to save Weitz's latest effort.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticInfused with an almost relentless blandness, it's defined by soft comedy (a few laughs here and there), flaccid drama, and likeable actors.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Would that Fey had been as choosy and critical about the screenplay as her character is about personal essays attached to applications to Princeton University.
There's a good movie in this story. The one that got made is roughly half-good.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Only Mr. Rudd emerges unscathed. He protects himself by being consistently affable in the face of heavy odds.
Three Movie Buffs
A rather bland comedy that never rises above its sitcom premise.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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
The Movie Minute
The biggest problem with this movie is that Tina Fey didn't write it.
"Admission" has some sublime moments, most of them involving Fey and Rudd dancing around their inevitable romance. The problem is in the foundation.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Flixist.com
"Hey, look who's here," the film says excitedly as Rudd and Fey routinely attempt to make a stale screenplay humorous, "Why aren't you laughing at them?"
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| Original Score: 44/100
Big Hollywood
Admission offers two appealing leads, a gaggle of potentially strong themes and, well, that's about it.
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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.
