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Jake Coyle, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "...a return to form for Rob Reiner... There's charm here and some honest observations of adolescence. But there's also a willful, cloying datedness to the movie..." (Read the full review...) 645 words, 08/26/10 Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: FAIR (cg) "...a clumsy mash... Reiner vacuum-seals it all in a patronizingly wholesome package, like an extended episode of 'The Wonder Years' with all the wonder sucked out." (Read the full review...) 84 words, 08/06/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Though it's not worth doing cartwheels over, 'Flipped' is a pleasantly nostalgic and well-intentioned family movie featuring strong performances by its young actors." (Read the full review...) 494 words, 08/27/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...what makes 'Flipped' such a warm entertainment is how it re-creates a life we wish we'd had when we were 14." (Read the full review...) 720 words, 08/26/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Rob Reiner's best film in 18 years... includes echoes of two of his most accomplished efforts, 'The Sure Thing' and 'Stand By Me.' It also may be 2010's best romantic comedy." (Read the full review...) 1,029 words, 09/12/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: FAIR "...strains to view the world through the eyes of children without a filter of grown-up cynicism. It is plodding and awkwardly paced." (Read the full review...) 713 words, 08/27/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "There's nothing to flip over in Rob Reiner's bland coming-of-age tale.... there's barely half a film here, stretched and pulled so thin you can nearly see through it." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 08/27/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the kind of small, special movie that wraps you up in so much warmth, humor and humanity that it will leave you wishing that stories like this weren't so rare." (Read the full review...) 896 words, 08/06/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a low-key, early teen romance... interesting enough that you wish it were better.... has enough worthwhile moments to make it worth checking out on DVD." (Read the full review...) 482 words, 08/27/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...a good try, as opposed to a good film.... picture lands somewhere between synthetic nostalgia and the texture of real life." (Read the full review...) 554 words, 08/27/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...what makes 'Flipped' such a warm entertainment is how it re-creates a life we wish we'd had when we were 14." (Read the full review...) 720 words, 08/26/10 Ernest Hardy, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "You'll be forgiven for groaning through the first 20 minutes... kicks off in a key of aggressively picturesque whiteness -- I mean, wholesomeness." (Read the full review...) 234 words, 08/25/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "They don't make many movies like 'Flipped' anymore, and that's because when they do, they're usually presented as TV sitcoms." (Read the full review...) 593 words, 08/27/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "Reiner's creative atrophy is most evident in the movie's unsteady tone, which swings clumsily from bittersweet nostalgia to feel-good pap..." (Read the full review...) 205 words, 08/26/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "Your reaction, to some degree, depends on your tolerance for cute child actors.... At times, the movie feels like a commercial for Wonder Bread, stretched to feature length." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 09/10/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a warmhearted teenage he said/she said... Reiner, who made the similarly themed 'The Sure Thing' about opposites who repel and attract, is a most sympathetic director of actors." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 09/10/10 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...succeeds when it backs off the gluey nostalgia and focuses instead on the subtler pitfalls of adolescence... The film hits the skids when it goes straight for the corny or the cute..." (Read the full review...) 547 words, 09/10/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...it's that marvelous uncertainty, doubt and potential for dashed hopes that give 'Flipped' its novelty... a minor gem." (Read the full review...) 532 words, 09/10/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...has a warm heart neatly packaged." (Read the full review...) 672 words, 08/27/10 Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "...pretty low-key stuff that occasionally flirts with rose-colored schmaltz..." (Read the full review...) 281 words, 09/10/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...as phony as a poodle-skirted waitress at a mall diner, yet it's as sweet as a malt. A vanilla one." (Read the full review...) 308 words, 09/10/10
Ernest Hardy, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "You'll be forgiven for groaning through the first 20 minutes... kicks off in a key of aggressively picturesque whiteness -- I mean, wholesomeness." (Read the full review...) 234 words, 08/25/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: POOR (cg) "Like watching the summer's worst movie -- twice." (Read the full review...) 155 words, 08/26/10 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: POOR (cg) "...hilariously overwrought... slathers on multiple coats of sentimentality, just in case a solitary moment of restraint or understatement somehow slipped through." (Read the full review...) 381 words, 08/26/10 John Gholson, Cinematical: WEAK "There's an echo of a story worth telling in here, and perhaps it's in the book on which the film is based, but, as a movie, 'Flipped' vaporizes into nothing..." (Read the full review...) 691 words, 08/12/10 Nick Schager, Slant: WEAK (cg) "A treacly tweener saga of first love that drowns in nostalgia... it's all just softly lit sitcom moralizing about serious issues..." (Read the full review...) 393 words, 08/25/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "Reiner's creative atrophy is most evident in the movie's unsteady tone, which swings clumsily from bittersweet nostalgia to feel-good pap..." (Read the full review...) 205 words, 08/26/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a charming little coming-of-age teen romance.... a totally enthralling look at the most subtle, most prosaic of life experiences... I can't recommend 'Flipped' highly enough." (Read the full review...) 818 words, 09/07/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: POOR "...painfully clumsy... how much can a moviegoer care about a science project, or the dark side of a 'Leave It to Beaver' family that doesn't have a bright side worth a second glance?" (Read the full review...) 215 words, 08/06/10 Stephen Holden, New York Times: FAIR "...strains to view the world through the eyes of children without a filter of grown-up cynicism. It is plodding and awkwardly paced." (Read the full review...) 713 words, 08/27/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the kind of small, special movie that wraps you up in so much warmth, humor and humanity that it will leave you wishing that stories like this weren't so rare." (Read the full review...) 896 words, 08/06/10
Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: MODERATE "...a well-intentioned family pic about first love that's overly concerned with period details and life lessons, rather than the genuinely sweet characters at its center." (Read the full review...) 757 words, 08/01/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "A mostly misfired attempt by Rob Reiner to return to 'Stand By Me' glory.... too many clearly fictional characters and contrived situations bog down his story." (Read the full review...) 855 words, 08/01/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the kind of small, special movie that wraps you up in so much warmth, humor and humanity that it will leave you wishing that stories like this weren't so rare." (Read the full review...) 896 words, 08/06/10 Stephen Holden, New York Times: FAIR "...strains to view the world through the eyes of children without a filter of grown-up cynicism. It is plodding and awkwardly paced." (Read the full review...) 713 words, 08/27/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: POOR "...painfully clumsy... how much can a moviegoer care about a science project, or the dark side of a 'Leave It to Beaver' family that doesn't have a bright side worth a second glance?" (Read the full review...) 215 words, 08/06/10
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