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Perfect Score, The
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language, sexual content and some drug references
Starring
Scarlett Johansson,
Erika Christensen,
Chris Evans,
Darius Miles,
Leonardo Nam,
Sonja Bennett,
Rob Boyce,
and
Paul Campbell
A group of teenagers conspire to break into a SAT testing center to steal the answers to their upcoming test and all get perfect scores.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Crime
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Mark Schwahn
Marc Hyman (also story)
Jon Zack (also story)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Brian Robbins
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 29, 2004
Video: June 29, 2004
Theatrical: January 30, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Germany |

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...
75
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
In addition to being a good-looking movie with a pumping Foo Fighters anthem, "Score" is actually a philosophical argument against our culture of tests.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
The lark-ish Perfect Score is on the high side of the time-killer it sounds like.

60
Variety
Brian Lowry
Energetic, smarter-than-expected teen comedy.

60
Empire
Scott Russon
For its target teen audience, it's a decent enough movie.

60
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
A thin, pleasant teenage heist comedy with a chewy nugget of social criticism buried inside it.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The cast doesn't impress, the story doesn't compel and the characters are too bland to make people remember them.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ellen A. Kim
Only Nam, in a pot-induced drawl, infuses the film with great comic timing.

50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The comedy about a coterie of high school seniors plotting to steal the answers to the dreaded standardized test talks a pretty good game, but in the end the numbers just don't add up to much.

50
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
It's amiable and smartly paced, if noticeably lacking in conviction.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
You may be able to find parallels between these characters and those in "The Breakfast Club." On the other hand, you may decide life is too short.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
An eminently defensible light entertainment, peopled with characters that are easy to like and care about.

50
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Brian Robbins (Varsity Blues) actually has a clear sense of the way 21st-century teenagers behave, and his sleek style keeps the film moving briskly.

40
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
The heist itself is quite nicely filmed herein, but unfortunately, getting to it requires sitting through a bunch of noisy, fussy crap, from the overly busy soundtrack to the irritating narration of stoned guy Leonardo Nam.

40
LA Weekly
John Patterson
Disfigured by flabby dialogue (You can't put a number on my dreams!), unfunny pratfalls and criminally slack pacing.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
As forgettable as the humor is the film's predictable portrayal of adults as clueless, overbearing cretins.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Luke Sader
The story is flimsy, and when the dialogue touches on controversial issues regarding the SAT and its fairness, the slacker tone turns abruptly melodramatic.

38
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Comes tantalizingly close to being interesting.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Only sharp dialogue and a suspenseful buglary might have given this lame, quasi morality play some energy. It has neither.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Oh, it's perfect all right. In fact, The Perfect Score is a flawless example of the classic January movie release -- the kind of studio picture that even the studio loathes, and so consigns to the dumping ground of the year's frosty first month.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Misses the mark.

33
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
It's "Ocean's Eleven" for people who can't count past six.

30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Attempts at high spirits and the presence of Matthew Lillard all suggest that this is supposed to be a comedy.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
At its core the film is as standardized as the exam it seeks to debunk, and nearly as tedious.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The script, attributed to Mark Schwahn, Marc Hyman and Jon Zack, is as confused as it is confusing, and the aimless direction by Brian Robbins doesn't help. It was apparently edited with a roulette wheel.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie, which strains to be hip in a faux-1985 beat-the-system way, takes such a light view of cheating that it has the ironic effect of rendering the heist that follows utterly innocuous.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A dull film with unsympathetic characters brought together by a gimmicky premise that's handled with no imagination and a pristine fraudulence of emotion. Aside from that, it's great.

20
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Luckily, life (just like the SAT) has its multiple-choice options. You don't actually have to watch this.

20
Village Voice
Ed Park
"X is to Y, as this shit is to boring."


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