| 90 |
Film.com
Director Gary Winick ("Sweet Nothing") ingeniously complements Draper's layered approach by modulating the film's energy in fascinating ways.
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| 88 |
Boston Globe
Reveals real feelings.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Starts out self-consciously but gets better as it goes along, winding up as affecting as it is illuminating.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Sounds bleak, but turns out to be an absorbing and lively film.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Has the schematic feel of a disease-of-the-week TV movie, but the connections made between jazz and the minds that produce it turns the film into something much more intimate and compelling.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Badly lit and at times, awkwardly inspirational, yet there's real feeling in it, especially when the movie suggests that Tourette's syndrome is every bit as pure an expression of the spirit as it is a ''disorder.''
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
The little film is made uniquely engaging by the performance of its young star, Chris Marquette.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
If it seems to have the ingredients of an after-school special, the performances take it to another level. Gut level.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
I value the flawed Tic Code over a good many relatively flawless features because it has more heart, more life, and more spunk.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Works better as a sociological study than as a gripping drama.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
An honest, plainspoken and unsentimental movie.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Laura's histrionics sometimes seem forced, and Hines has to struggle to be the heel the screenplay sometimes asks him to be.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
A sympathetic but conventional disease-of-the-week movie.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Like most movies that examine specific ailments, this gawky, occasionally touching film has the feel of a dramatized case history whose purpose is to educate as much as it is to tell a story.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
What at first seems emotionally charged, ultimately comes off as contrived.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Preachy and predictable, an afterschool special in all but name.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Not entirely persuasive, not entirely schmaltzy, "The Tic Code" is one of those well-meant dramatizations... that mysteriously made it all the way to a theater near you.
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