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35 out of 100

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6.9 out of 10

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  • Starring: Alexis Bledel, Carol Burnett, Michael Keaton
  • Summary: Ryden Malby had a plan. Do well in high school, thereby receiving a great college scholarship. Now that she’s finally graduated, it’s time for her to find a gorgeous loft apartment and land her dream job at the city’s best publishing house. (Fox Searchlight)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 25
  3. Negative: 10 out of 25
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    It's a screwball comedy. It's also, I have to say, a feel-good movie that made me smile a lot.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    50
    So swaddled in good intentions that it's like taking a very short journey cushioned on all sides by air bags. That are stuffed with cotton candy.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    38
    Ostensibly a comedy, and a feeble and innocuous one at that, Post Grad is one of those what-were-they-thinking?

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. moviefreak12
    8
    a great movie for the family, it will cheer you right up if you are having a bad day. its a movie that will make you smile thought the 90 minute duration.… Expand
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  2. ChadS.
    4
    Like a mediocre Woody Allen movie, even when the hyper-literate banter between Lorelai and Rory(on the much-missed WB dramedy "Gilmore Girls") wasn't quite up to form, you were still in the company of smart, articulate people. Sometimes you had to settle for "Stars Hollow Ending". Rory Gilmore, the prodigious only child of a single mother(played to perfection by Lauren Graham) was such a vivid, genuine creation, the last thing Alexis Bledel should do is play somebody who could be her less accomplished twin. Similar to Rory, in "Post-Grad", Ryden Malby graduates from college with a degree in English; she reads, lo and behold, novels. Among her favorites are J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and Charles Bukowski's "Post Office", books you could imagine Rory reading, but not Ryden, a girl who balks at selling luggage with her old man(played by Michael Keaton) as a stopgap measure against unemployment. Ryden's highfalutin attitude towards menial labor tells me that she learned nothing from the trials and tribulations of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski. Posited as the nice girl, Ryden is hardly sympathetic when the school valedictorian gives her a hard time by being faux-fussy with the paraphernalia, not after having just seen the working stiff lose some customers due to a woeful demeanor. Worst of all, she disrespects her father by walking off the job. Rory would never leave Lorelai in a lurch. True, it's not fair to compare roles, but that's the problem with "Post-Grad"; both girls are collegiate and relatively clean-cut. Bledel had the right idea when she played a hooker in Richard Rodriguez's "Sin City". She has to play against type.… Expand
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