|

Now Playing
Critics & Publications
Archives: A-Z Index
Advanced Search
Upcoming Release Calendar
Weekend Box Office
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss Film In Our Forums

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

67
$9.99
75
24 City
66
Adoration
74
Afghan Star
48
Alien Trespass
56
American Violet
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
57
Away We Go
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
62
Big Man Japan
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
55
Brothers Bloom, The
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
xx
Call of the Wild
63
Cheri
62
Cherry Blossoms
63
Dead Snow
65
Departures
18
Downloading Nancy
58
Easy Virtue
70
End of the Line, The
77
Every Little Step
64
Examined Life
80
Food, Inc.
38
Gigantic
56
Girl from Monaco, The
67
Girlfriend Experience, The
87
Gomorrah
89
Goodbye Solo
63
Great Buck Howard, The
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
xx
Home
82
Hunger
91
Hurt Locker, The
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
81
Il Divo
54
Is Anybody There?
71
Jerichow
58
Julia
74
Lemon Tree
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
40
Limits of Control, The
42
Little Ashes
64
Lymelife
50
Management
57
Merry Gentleman, The
66
Moon
35
New York
62
Not Forgotten
xx
Offshore
78
O'Horten
64
Outrage
40
Paris 36
54
Pontypool
71
Pressure Cooker
52
Quiet Chaos
83
Revanche
67
Rudo y Cursi
86
Seraphine
65
Sex Positive
70
Shall We Kiss?
77
Sin Nombre
59
Sleep Dealer
74
Song of Sparrows, The
54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
82
Sugar
84
Summer Hours
61
Sunshine Cleaning
28
Surveillance
42
Tennessee
63
Tetro
64
Throw Down Your Heart
80
Tokyo Sonata
63
Tokyo!
70
Tony Manero
74
Treeless Mountain
88
Tulpan
74
Two Lovers
83
Tyson
83
U2 3D
60
Under Our Skin
69
Unmistaken Child
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
22
What Goes Up
45
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
78
O'Horten
77
Every Little Step
77
Sin Nombre
75
24 City
74
Treeless Mountain
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
Departures
64
Outrage
64
Examined Life
64
Throw Down Your Heart
64
Lymelife
63
Tokyo!
63
Cheri
63
Dead Snow
63
Tetro
63
Great Buck Howard, The
62
Cherry Blossoms
62
Big Man Japan
62
Not Forgotten
61
Sunshine Cleaning
60
Under Our Skin
59
Sleep Dealer
58
Julia
58
Easy Virtue
57
Away We Go
57
Merry Gentleman, The
57
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
56
Girl from Monaco, The
56
American Violet
55
Brothers Bloom, The
54
Is Anybody There?
54
Pontypool
54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
52
Quiet Chaos
50
Management
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
Offshore
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
|
Raise Your Voice
New Line Cinema
MPAA RATING: PG for thematic elements and language
Starring
Hilary Duff,
John Corbett,
Rita Wilson,
Jason Ritter,
Oliver James,
Dana Davis,
Lauren C. Mayhew, Rebecca De Mornay,
and
David Keith
Hilary Duff stars as Terri Fletcher, a small town girl with the voice of a big-time singer. When personal tragedy interrupts her steady life, Terri defies her father's wishes and secretly heads off to spend a summer at a Los Angeles performing arts academy. (New Line Cinema)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Musical
|
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Sam Schreiber
Mitch Rotter (story)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Sean McNamara
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 15, 2005
Video: February 15, 2005
Theatrical: October 8, 2004
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
103 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...
75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
What is unusual and exciting about the movie is the assemblage of raw talent in the cast.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Raises the bar for movies geared to teens.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
As for Duff, she's bright-eyed and bubbly, though her singing talents are nowhere near as awesome as Raise Your Voice's who's-going-to-win-the-big-scholarship plotline requires.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Luke Sader
Should attract Duff's core audience but not much more than that.

50
Variety
Lael Loewenstein
Duff makes an engaging heroine, but her immaculately coifed blonde locks and undiminished lip gloss remind viewers just how much of a star vehicle this actually is.

50
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
Fame this film ain't.

50
The New York Times
Anita Gates
Ms. Duff's screen presence and the film's infectious high spirits will make this piece of fluff appealing to young moviegoers without conveying any sinister messages

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie's enthusiasm is as indelible and shiny as the lip gloss its star wears to bed.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Winda Benedetti
An awkward and sometimes confused thing fraught with overwrought emotions and misguided ideals.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Hilary Duff makes me long for the comparatively Dostoyevskian depths of Sandra Dee.

40
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Duff, who became a teen-set role model portraying Lizzie McGuire for Disney, has sold over four million records and toured to packed houses, yet screenwriter Sam Schreiber and director Sean McNamara, both making feature debuts, set her up to sing just one song through to completion.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Hilary Duff can't rise above an overbearing script with underdeveloped roles.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The movie is going to be fine for PG-ready audiences, assuming they don't have a problem with extremely predictable story turns.

38
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Worst of all, though, is the movie's moral maneuvering.

38
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Loaded with so much drama that the story sinks into a grim, sloppy soap-opera mix.

38
USA Today
Mike Clark
Actor John Corbett, so clean-cut in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Raising Helen," goes surprisingly scruffy here as someone who apparently studied music under Grizzly Adams.

30
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
The poorly executed scenes in which Duff's singing voice was clearly post-dubbed and her own lack of emotional range keep the film from rising to whatever potential it may have had.

30
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
This teen romance doesn't have a single authentic moment.

30
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
The God-squad answer to Todd Graff's "Camp."

25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Her dad was right about one thing. Something terrible did happen to her (Duff) in Los Angeles. She made this movie.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Overlong, blandly soporific.

25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Leah McLaren
The film suffers from a syndrome I'll call the Pop Princess's New Clothes. Hilary can't really sing, and neither can Terri, so you can't help but wonder, what's the big whoop?

20
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Frankly, one's sympathy sides more with the class bitch who thinks she has the better voice and deserves the choral solo instead of Terri. In your heart you know she's right.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Dreadful.


The average user rating for this movie is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Read more user comments...
Discuss this movie in our forums |
|