Easy A Reviews
Top CriticStone gives a terrific performance, her knowing drawl implying intellect and indifference with underlying warmth.
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| Original Score: 4/5
As for Emma Stone, she didn't have to win me over. She conquered me from the first A.
Easy A belongs in the company of Election, Heathers, and Mean Girls -- all motion pictures that have outlived their theatrical lives because they have unique voices and use them to say something.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Any movie that quotes Mark Twain, excerpts John Hughes and employs a singeing British cussword normally unheard in PG-13 high school comedies - that's all right, too. More than all right. Easy A might not ace it, but it scores a solid B.
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| Original Score: 3/4
An extremely witty, inventive, sweet and perceptive coming-out party for Emma Stone.
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| Original Score: B+
A gem of a turn by Emma Stone as high school student Olive Penderghast makes this tale of a girl, gossip and independence a smart and self-aware hoot in the tradition of the teen flicks of the 1980s.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Enhanced by a wicked sense of humor, Will Gluck's movie does what Hughes did best, showcasing characters with personality who make you wish you had them on speed dial.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Stone shows great self-assurance and considerable comic chops in a tour-de-force that that could have seemed smarmy and/or silly in lesser hands.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
It catapults Emma Stone into a higher place reserved for American actors who can handle elevated language with casually dazzling aplomb.
It makes with the clever dialogue and it does present a world where a young woman takes charge and triumphs over peer pressure, but the filmmakers were either too lazy or inept to find a way to be hip and competent at the same time.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Whatever else it accomplishes, the sassy high school comedy Easy A commands attention for the irresistible presence of Emma Stone, playing a good girl who pretends to be bad.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The material is elevated by the delightful Emma Stone, spinning comedy out of likability alone.
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| Original Score: B-
Given the luminaries ... dotting the cast, this ought to be some kind of fun, but it's not nearly as much fun as it might have been
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| Original Score: 2/5
A thoroughly delightful surprise, after a summer full of dim and dreary comedies.
Though the talented Stone shows off some sharp comic timing, it's hard to accept this smart, gorgeous young woman as a school misfit yearning for popularity...
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| Original Score: 3/4
An often hilarious and observant comedy about high school from the point of view of an extraordinarily smart and sagacious young woman.
Will Gluck's high school comedy combines the soul of John Hughes with the arch sass of Diablo Cody, and delivers something delightfully new in the process.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Much of what passes for fresh in this Scarlet Letter update doesn't bear closer inspection, yet the movie is not without its pleasures, chief among them the potentially star-making lead performance by Emma Stone.
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| Original Score: 3/5
A high-spirited, whip-smart high school sex comedy told from a female perspective, Easy A is The Scarlet Letter on laughing gas.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Easy A not only makes the grade, but it comes in close to 100%.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Like the movie she's in, Olive is smart, sarcastic, and never snarky.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Until it spins manically out of control in the last act, Easy A is a charmer: a high school satire with a lethally sharp script and a big, smart, adorable star performance from Emma Stone.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Olive is a kind of modern day Ferris Bueller. She has it pretty close to all figured out, and she even gets her own big, gratuitous musical number. It's a terrifically deadpan, lively performance from Stone.
Director Will Gluck shows wicked comic timing and uncommon warmth in an overworked genre.
The jokes are hit-and-miss. But Stone is one sassy babe and a breakout star who nails every zinger and brings genuine warmth to her scenes with her parents.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Not every moment of Easy A earns a passing grade, but what works in this edgy teen comedy works spectacularly well.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
It's a funny, engaging comedy that takes the familiar but underrated Emma Stone and makes her, I believe, a star.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
This is the kind of movie about teenagers that an adult audience should embrace. It's simply that good, and Stone is nothing short of wonderful.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
If Lindsay Lohan never makes it back to leading-lady status, then we can all comfort ourselves with the knowledge that we have Emma Stone.
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| Original Score: B-
The ghost of John Hughes smiles upon Easy A, a film that freely and giddily borrows from and pays tribute to Hughes' famous Holy Trinity of '80s teen angst comedies.
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| Original Score: 3/4
You can't help but wonder why Olive doesn't just stay at home, work on her college applications and leave the sub-John Hughes melodramatics to a lesser Ringwald.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Easy A tacks on a sound message about a teenage girl's right to do with her body as she wishes; the 88 preceding minutes aren't much more relevant than, as one character snarks, "a gossip girl in a sweet valley of traveling pants."
The final mark? Well, give this proud A a solid B. It's definitely a Diablo Codyesque cut above the norm - the wit can sometimes feel contrived but at least there's wit to be found.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The movie belongs to Stone, that gorgeous, husky-voiced redhead. When most actors deliver nonstop patter, their mouths get ahead of their minds, but Stone's brain works so fast that her mouth can barely keep up.
Is Olive practicing prostitution? Hair-splitters would say so, but hair-splitters likely won't be seeing Easy A, with its silliness, over-the-topitude and fabulous leading lady, who caps her fresh, charming performance with a musical number at the end.
