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Post Grad
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35 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 25
  3. Negative: 10 out of 25
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  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. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    75
    The material may be formulaic, but the spirit of the piece is friendly.
  3. 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.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Amy Biancolli
    50
    A harmless, aimless, mildly funny and thoroughly predictable comic-romantic piffle.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Laura Bennett
    50
    A disjointed patchwork of zany character sketches lacking in coherence and credibility.
  6. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    50
    Post Grad isn't funny, surprising, or insightful enough to provoke more than a ho-hum reaction. It's not bad in the way that many failed comedies are bad; it's simply uninspired.
  7. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Calvin Wilson
    50
    After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.
  8. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    50
    Dismayingly conservative dramedy.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    50
    Ms. Bledel works her "Gilmore Girls" charm to the hilt, but no amount of cerulean-eyed sparkle can transcend this level of thudding mediocrity.
  10. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Cliff Doerksen
    50
    Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly.
  11. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    40
    An innocuous -- to the point of blandness -- look at the "hardships" of a recent college grad.
  12. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    40
    Bledel brings a sweet, steady presence, but this sort of minor project is a step backwards. It's high time she graduated on to bigger and better things.
  13. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Vadim Rizov
    40
    In 2009. Vicky Jenson's live-action debut is as cartoonish as her work on "Shrek," and that's OK for the comic bits. The rest seems like a remarkably cynical cross-breed-for all demographics, but, ultimately, for none.
  14. Variety
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    40
    As fiction characters go, Ryden seems as dull as they come, making it hard to muster much sympathy for her plight.
  15. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Dan Kois
    40
    Boils down, in the end, to the age-old question: Career or life? That Post Grad draws a stark line between the two, and forces its heroine into an untenable decision, might be the most disappointing thing about a movie that never quite succeeds in capturing a generation adrift.
  16. 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?
  17. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie.
  18. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    33
    When a film whose cast includes Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch, Fred Armisen, Craig Robinson, Demetri Martin, and the now rarely seen Carol Burnett can't scare up more than a smattering of laughs, the patient was never meant to live in the first place.
  19. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    30
    A joyless fluffball about after-college job woes with a dispiriting message for smart young women.
  20. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    25
    An annoying, tedious little film.
  21. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    25
    A promising premise simply devolves into just another "Definitely, Maybe" or "The Proposal."
  22. New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Reviewed by: Mike Scott
    25
    Most of the time, however, Post Grad just coasts along, flat as a mortar board, and as forgettable as a ... oh, I forgot already.
  23. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: S. James Snyder
    20
    Timing's everything in comedy, so perhaps Post Grad would have seemed peppier prior to the Great Recession; circa now, this comedy feels like a cynical stroll through the unemployment lines awaiting today's class of seniors.
  24. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joanne Kaufman
    20
    We are meant to think they are all delightfully and amusingly eccentric (characters). Actually, they're just creepy
  25. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    0
    Bland to the point of pointlessness.
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6.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  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.… Full Review »
  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.… Full Review »
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