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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.
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63The lark-ish Perfect Score is on the high side of the time-killer it sounds like.
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60For its target teen audience, it's a decent enough movie.
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60A thin, pleasant teenage heist comedy with a chewy nugget of social criticism buried inside it.
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60Energetic, smarter-than-expected teen comedy.
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50You 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.
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50The cast doesn't impress, the story doesn't compel and the characters are too bland to make people remember them.
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50Brian Robbins (Varsity Blues) actually has a clear sense of the way 21st-century teenagers behave, and his sleek style keeps the film moving briskly.
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50Only Nam, in a pot-induced drawl, infuses the film with great comic timing.
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50An eminently defensible light entertainment, peopled with characters that are easy to like and care about.
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50The 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.
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It's amiable and smartly paced, if noticeably lacking in conviction.
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The story is flimsy, and when the dialogue touches on controversial issues regarding the SAT and its fairness, the slacker tone turns abruptly melodramatic.
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40Disfigured by flabby dialogue (“You can't put a number on my dreams!”), unfunny pratfalls and criminally slack pacing.
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40The 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.
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40As forgettable as the humor is the film's predictable portrayal of adults as clueless, overbearing cretins.
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38Only sharp dialogue and a suspenseful buglary might have given this lame, quasi morality play some energy. It has neither.
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38Comes tantalizingly close to being interesting.
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38Misses the mark.
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38Oh, 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.
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33It's "Ocean's Eleven" for people who can't count past six.
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30At its core the film is as standardized as the exam it seeks to debunk, and nearly as tedious.
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30Attempts at high spirits and the presence of Matthew Lillard all suggest that this is supposed to be a comedy.
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25The 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.
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25A 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.
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25The 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.
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20"X is to Y, as this shit is to boring."
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20Luckily, life (just like the SAT) has its multiple-choice options. You don't actually have to watch this.
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10Great combination of two movies in one: The Breakfast Club and Ocean 11. Everyone is great and the high Asian guy is hilarious.