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Rudo y Cursi
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60
Under Our Skin
69
Unmistaken Child
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
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What Goes Up
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Whatever Works
57
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
88
Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
Revanche
83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
Hunger
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
Tokyo Sonata
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
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O'Horten
77
Every Little Step
77
Sin Nombre
75
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74
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74
Afghan Star
74
Two Lovers
74
Song of Sparrows, The
74
Lemon Tree
71
Pressure Cooker
71
Jerichow
70
Shall We Kiss?
70
Tony Manero
70
End of the Line, The
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
69
Unmistaken Child
67
$9.99
67
Rudo y Cursi
67
Girlfriend Experience, The
66
Adoration
66
Moon
65
Sex Positive
65
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Outrage
64
Examined Life
64
Throw Down Your Heart
64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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63
Great Buck Howard, The
62
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62
Not Forgotten
61
Sunshine Cleaning
60
Under Our Skin
59
Sleep Dealer
58
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58
Easy Virtue
57
Away We Go
57
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57
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56
Girl from Monaco, The
56
American Violet
55
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54
Is Anybody There?
54
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54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
52
Quiet Chaos
50
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48
Alien Trespass
45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
Tennessee
40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
Downloading Nancy
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
xx
Call of the Wild
xx
Home
xx
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Old School
DreamWorks Distribution LLC
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for some strong sexual content, nudity and language
Starring
Luke Wilson,
Will Ferrell,
Vince Vaughn,
Ellen Pompeo,
Craig Kilborn,
Juliette Lewis,
Leah Remini,
and
Matthew Carey
A raucous comedy about a trio of thirty-something buddies who try to recapture the outrageous, irrepressible fun of their college years by starting their own off-campus frat house. (DreamWorks Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Todd Phillips (also story)
Scot Armstrong (also story)
Court Crandall (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Todd Phillips
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 10, 2003
Video: June 10, 2003
Theatrical: February 21, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Baltimore Sun
Jay Boyar
The whole plot is a shambles. And yet none of this matters much when you're laughing as hard as this film makes you laugh.

80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Starts out silly, gets sillier by the minute, and frequently had me and most of the people around me in stitches.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
In terms of sheer belly-laugh count, this one's in the same plentiful company as "There's Something About Mary" and "Road Trip."

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's blissfully, pants-wettingly funny from beginning to end.

80
Film Threat
Kevin Carr
Will Ferrell is a fearless comedian, and he commits completely to his insanity in the film, and that makes it work.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's also a message movie, about as weighty as Lara Flynn Boyle and twice as absurd. But I'd like to report that I had an excellent time.

70
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
The disconnect between what men say and what they do makes Old School funnier than most of its gags and it also invests the movie with curious pathos.

70
The New Yorker
David Denby
Its party time, and the movie is wild and crude without being mean--its a comedy of infantile regression, Animal House for grownups. [17 March 2003, p. 154]
70
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Ferrell owns the screen.

70
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
The 1978 frat-house classic "Animal House," starring the late, great John Belushi, is the model for testosterone-mad comedies such as this, and while it hasn't that film's scope or finesse, Old School does have Ferrell, a man clearly in touch with his inner Belushi.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
In lieu of a toga party, one scene treats us to an octogenarian fraternity member wrestling two topless townie lookers slathered in KY Gel. Hey, there's no stopping progress.

63
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Ultimately, the immensely personable and talented lead actors manage to push aside the disquieting notion that this group of men are so emotionally stunted that they're happy to abandon their wives and children for the sake of a party.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Old School is exactly what director Todd Phillips intends for it to be: low-brow, moronic to a fault, and occasionally side-splittingly funny.

60
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
A good laugh is almost never a bad thing and almost every frame of Old School is grade A goofball fun.

60
Variety
Dennis Harvey
This year's kinder, gentler "Animal House."

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
To call the haphazard string of gags a story is to give it far too much credit, but it is funny in a blunt, profane frat boy way, thanks to the bulldozing energy of Ferrell, the smarmy manipulations of Vaughn and the anything-for-a-laugh excess of Phillips.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Under Reitman's deanship, Ferrell lets his freak flag fly and Vaughn unlooses a notably funny, light-on-his-feet lunkheadedness.

50
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
With little cohesion and no respect for the editing process, Old School often feels like someone threw film clips on the floor and strung them together willy-nilly.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The saving grace of Old School is that it has about a dozen funny moments. These moments aren't mildly funny or chuckle funny but really funny.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Only fitfully funny, except when Ferrell is onscreen -- then you won't stop laughing.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Speaking of funny things, director Todd Phillips has been down this path before in "Road Trip." There, toiling in the same lame genre, he actually showed a hint of comic ingenuity. Here, the hint has dwindled to a hoarse whisper.

50
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Like a half-empty glass of Coke that's been sitting out for a couple of days; sure, it looks like cola, but one sip tells you exactly what's missing.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A deliberately stupid movie whose crazy charm wins you over in the end.

50
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Phillips and co-writer Scot Armstrong waste too much time on a silly love-interest subplot for Wilson; that time is much better served by the frat-boy idiocies, like Frank beer-bonging himself into streaking.

50
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
The frat brothers have some surprisingly touching moments, and their diverse but perfectly matched personalities generate a fairly steady stream of laugh-out-loud moments.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
A comedy with a terrific premise and little else.

40
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
A dumb guy comedy about dumb guys by dumb guys and for dumb guys.

38
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
The movie is never more than the sum of its scattershot jokes; it's sloppily put together, with scenes seemingly cut mid-dialogue.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Old School has all the ingredients of an uproarious campus comedy, but it lacks a boisterous short-order cook who could whip up a food fight or three.

30
Village Voice
Ed Park
A flatland of lowest-common-denominated retro-collegiate wackiness.

25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie has been slapped together by director Todd Phillips, who careens from scene to scene without it occurring to him that humor benefits from characterization, context and continuity. Otherwise, all you have is a lot of people acting goofy.

25
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
If you're going to be offensive, by all means be offensive. Be tasteless! Be "There's Something About Mary." But at least stick to your guns, and don't wuss out when it counts.


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