Flipped (2010)

All Critics (71) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (33) | DVD (4)

At times, the movie feels like a commercial for Wonder Bread, stretched to feature length.

September 24, 2011 Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

Flipped is Rob Reiner's best film in 18 years.

September 13, 2010 Full Review

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Reiner, who made the similarly themed The Sure Thing about opposites who repel and attract, is a most sympathetic director of actors.

September 9, 2010 Full Review

Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

It's a bit too Wonder Years at times, but the odd two-narrators gimmick plays right into the film's "flip" in structure.

September 8, 2010 Full Review

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

That Flipped isn't insufferably cute is a measure of its integrity. But it still strains to view the world through the eyes of children without a filter of grown-up cynicism.

August 27, 2010 Full Review

Stephen Holden

New York Times

Top Critic

We have here a movie that's pitch-perfect one minute and awkwardly schmaltzy the next.

August 27, 2010 Full Review

Lou Lumenick

New York Post

Top Critic

A surprising-engangin and beautifully-told story about young romance.

January 5, 2013 Full Review

John Hanlon

Big Hollywood

Has my heart grown so cold and battle-scarred that I can't allow myself to be completely won over by Flipped, or is Flipped such a load of flavorless mush that there's not enough charm for me to embrace?

February 9, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

John Gholson

Cinematical

The importance of understanding varying perspectives is always worth communicating, and Flipped, despite its cloying approach, manages to deliver this idea with a decent amount of sincerity intact.

January 11, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

If the feature doesn't latch on to the senses immediately with its sugared claws, it's a long, ugly 85 minutes of dreadful behavior to endure, waiting for an ending that never arrives.

November 26, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

I suppose some people may respond to this nostalgic ode to innocence and chastity, but I found it insufferable.

November 21, 2010 Full Review

Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

...a fairy tale, an idealized memory. But for this adult, it was mostly humdrum and predictable. (Blu-ray Edition)

November 21, 2010 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...if you want a wholesome, ultimately feel-good film about young love, this might be it. Or not.

November 21, 2010 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Not perfect, but its aspirations are admirable, and its execution is surprisingly effective considering (or maybe because of) its unadulterated sentimentality.

October 25, 2010 Full Review

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

The movie feels static, like a diorama of ?60s life rather than a living, breathing story.

October 8, 2010 Full Review

Sean Means

Salt Lake Tribune

Rob Reiner seems to be aiming for a boomer audience, but it's a relentless exercise in nostalgia -- clothes, hair styles, cars, and doo-wop soundtrack -- that feels manipulative.

September 24, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Christianity Today

You'll flip for this gentle, clever movie. You are hereby forgiven for "North," Mr. Reiner.

September 23, 2010 Full Review

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Perfectly innocent, unexpectedly charming.

September 20, 2010 Full Review

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

...takes what could have been a charming coming-of-age story and buries it beneath layers of cinematic overkill that push you away from the film when they should be drawing you in.

September 17, 2010 Full Review

Sarah Boslaugh

Playback:stl

The latest from director Rob Reiner is a well-meaning mess that wants to tap into universal experiences of childhood and first love but bogs down in squirm-inducing banalities.

September 10, 2010 Full Review

Robert W. Butler

Kansas City Star

The kids provide an earnest emotional through line to a tiny story, and I sort of hope it kicks off a new mature period for Reiner as a filmmaker.

September 10, 2010 Full Review

Mike Russell

Oregonian

It makes sense that Flipped is based on a book, because what it has going for it is a charm -- the pleasure of hanging out with likable characters -- that the movies don't have much time for lately.

September 10, 2010 Full Review

Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Flipped is as phony as a poodle-skirted waitress at a mall diner, yet it's as sweet as a malt. A vanilla one.

September 10, 2010 Full Review

Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• 1. Juli Baker: As we stood there, I realized that all these years we'd never really talked. But that day we started.
  2. Bryce Loski: And I knew we'd be talking for a long time.
  – Submitted by ethan t (10 months ago)
• 1. Bryce Loski: She's laughing. What;s she laughing about? How could she sit there and laugh and look so beautiful?
  – Submitted by Via L (14 months ago)
• 1. Garrett: Man have you flipped!? What the matter with you?!
  – Submitted by Vaneay C (16 months ago)
• 1. Juli Baker: And I knew, right from that moment, Bryce was definitely less than the sum of his parts.
  – Submitted by Leah W (16 months ago)
• 1. Juli Baker: [Bryce puts his hand on hers] And then, I looked into his eyes...
  2. Juli Baker: ...and I knew we'd be talking a lot more.
  – Submitted by Vaneay C (17 months ago)
• 1. Bryce Loski: Flat, glossy, iridescent? What the hell does that mean? Juli Baker has always seem plain to me. Until now.
  – Submitted by Megan D (21 months ago)

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