The Marc Pease Experience
Metascore
30 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 6 out of 7
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  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    63
    This is a slight and unessential picture, but its quirky, compassionate tone seems destined to attract a cult following, and members of high-school drama clubs everywhere will be riveted.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    38
    Not so much character-driven as character-dragged--against its will.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: David Hiltbrand
    38
    Faced with the script's weak humor and feeble stabs at irony, Schwartzman and Stiller turn it way up, setting the dial at "hammy."
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    33
    In a squandered lead performance, the adorable, winning Schwartzman plays the non-adorable, non-winning title character.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Rob Nelson
    30
    The finished product appears particularly stale, with an unfunny script that squanders its game cast, including a valiantly emotive Jason Schwartzman in the title role.
  6. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    25
    It’s badly written and inertly directed, with actors who don’t have a clue what drives their characters. This is one of those rare films that contains no chemistry at all. None. The actors scarcely seem to be in the same scenes together.
  7. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Cliff Doerksen
    20
    Those who deem the gentle comedies of Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show) cruel to showbiz dreamers should be subjected to this ugliness.

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