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The Perfect Score (2004)

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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 90

Neither funny nor suspenseful, this heist / teen flick also fails to explore its potentially socially relevant premise.

Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 24

Neither funny nor suspenseful, this heist / teen flick also fails to explore its potentially socially relevant premise.

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Movie Info

Produced by MTV Films, The Perfect Score is a teen crime comedy about a group of high school students who decide to steal the answers to the SAT exam. Kyle (Chris Evans) wants to be an architect, but his scores are too low to get into the school of his choice. Matty (Bryan Greenberg) is heartbroken when he is rejected from the school to which his girlfriend goes. Good girl Anna (Erika Christensen) is pressured by her parents to excel in academics and remain innocent. Desmond (Darius Miles) is a

PG-13, 1 hr. 33 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Directed By: Brian Robbins

Written By: Marc Hyman, Mark Schwahn, Jon Zack

In Theaters: Jan 30, 2004 Wide

On DVD: Jun 29, 2004

Box Office:$10.3M

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Erika Christensen
Anna
Chris Evans
Kyle
Bryan Greenberg
Matty
Scarlett Johansson
Francesca
Darius Miles
Desmond
Leonardo Nam
Roy
Tyra Ferrell
Desmond's Mother
Matthew Lillard
Larry
Vanessa Angel
Attractive Woman
Bill Mackenzie
Lobby Guard
Kyle Labine
Dave

Critic Reviews for The Perfect Score

All Critics (120) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (92) | DVD (16)

Next time, director Robbins and his screenwriters should spend a few hours inside a real high school rather than re-hashing stock stereotypes from bad '80s movies.

January 31, 2004 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Lively and fun in places, but overall it has a listless, tepid feel.

January 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

Talks a pretty good game, but in the end the numbers just don't add up to much.

January 30, 2004 Comment

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

A bizarre mismatch of The Breakfast Club and Mission: Impossible.

January 30, 2004 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

Is there not something just plain wrong with a movie about cheating on exams that's less fun than taking one?

January 30, 2004 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Top Critic

A dull film with unsympathetic characters brought together by a gimmicky premise that's handled with no imagination and a pristine fraudulence of emotion.

January 30, 2004 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Not terrible, but this MTV teen movie falls flat.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Squarely aimed at teens with little regard for anyone else...

August 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The work of a filmmaker and team of writers so conscious of their own formulaic crutch that they demand a production that feels like more than the sum of its parts.

September 16, 2004 Comment

Mark Collette

Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

I think it's rationally impossible for anyone who scored at least a 500 on the verbal section of the SAT to want to sit though this tripe.

June 12, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

There are three extras, including a decent but uninspired (just like the movie) commentary by director Brian Robbins and screenwriter Mark Schwahn.

June 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

The Perfect Score is amenable, enjoyable and as quickly forgotten as all those tricks you learned in your SAT prep class.

April 16, 2004 Comment

Rachel Deahl

Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Source: Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA)

What could, and should, have been as fun and daring as skipping school turns out to be as dull as a two-hour detention.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: BBC

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Matthew Leyland

BBC

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Kids are pretty stupid. SATs really don't mean that much. If they couldn't get into the college they applied, they could've gone to a community college and transferred over. No big deal. Anyway the movie was kind of boring, and really cliched. Like so many cliches, no joke. I only watched it because I didn't have anything better to do.

August 27, 2011

J P

Super Reviewer

Francesca: You look like a slut. I like it.�"The S.A.T. is hard to take. It's even harder to steal."The Perfect Score is a horrible teenage heist comedy that makes no effort to do anything original with it's characters or situations. Some of the worst performances I've ever seen done for cliche teenagers. The worst

August 24, 2011