Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Nov 9, 2019

Humor, compassion, tenderness, forgiveness and friendship. The trials and tribulations of youth and of life told with heartfelt emotion and some well executed deadpan comedy. A little off-beat and a lot of fun.

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Nell Minow Movie Mom Feb 18, 2012 B+

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Cliff Doerksen Time Out Nov 18, 2011 3/5

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Ben McEachen Empire Magazine Australasia Jun 16, 2010 4/5

Well worth the wait, Rocket Science is a winning coming of age comedy with a difference.

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Margaret Pomeranz At the Movies (Australia) Jun 16, 2010 4/5

It's intelligent, it doesn't go for the emotional jugular, it has an honesty about it that's refreshing.

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Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald Jun 16, 2010 4/5

Here's a twist -- an American high-school movie that has a brain.

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Heather Huntington ReelzChannel.com Aug 26, 2008 7/10

Each character has his or her own lovable peculiarity--from the friend's parents who play Violent Femmes duets on the cello to the speech therapist who gives too many details about his personal life--small details that don't threaten to overshadow Hal's s

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Jonathan Kiefer Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 4/5

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Tim Grierson Screen International Jul 23, 2008

This indie-minded effort suggests a filmmaker too enamored by his influences and struggling to establish a cogent vision of his own.

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Tricia Olszewski Washington City Paper Mar 6, 2008

Please, enough with Napoleon Dynamite Syndrome already.

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Jen Chaney Washington Post Feb 27, 2008

Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz brings wit and pathos to the story of a compulsive stutterer.

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David Cornelius DVDTalk.com Feb 13, 2008 2.5/5

Rocket Science is a story smothered by its own eccentricities.

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Christian Toto Washington Times Feb 3, 2008 3/4

Rocket Science brings the squirm-inducing comedy genre to new heights

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jan 31, 2008 2.5/4

...eventually comes off as an engaging and surprisingly affecting little drama...

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Sandie Angulo Chen Common Sense Media Oct 31, 2007 3/5

Debate-team teen comedy is clever, unpredictable.

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Sep 29, 2007 3/5

Enjoyably offbeat comedy drama with likeable characters and a terrific script, though its relentlessly unconventional nature is ultimately frustrating.

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Martin Hoyle Financial Times Sep 29, 2007

Lovely performances all round create small-town competitiveness, frustrations and aspirations.

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Anthony Quinn Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 29, 2007 1/5

Blitz let the story tell itself in Spellbound; this time, he's trying too hard.

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Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 28, 2007

Needlessly cruel comedy.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Sep 28, 2007 1/5

It isn't funny; it isn't touching; there's a screamingly annoying and supercilious voiceover-narration, and all its dramatic ideas are bafflingly unfinished and unresolved.

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