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05/16/08

4.5/5

Cast and crew maintain an engagingly snarky tone throughout the film, with raucous dialog and a gleeful willingness to crush teen movie stereotypes.

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08/02/07

3/4

Mostly this was a quirky, smart, inspiring, and surprisingly enjoyable High School movie.

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07/22/08

N/A

Robert Downey Jr. playing an alcoholic principal lecturing on the dangers of drugs is one of those wonderfully ironic, Twilight Zone moments that only Hollywood can provide.

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07/21/08

2/4

Charlie Bartlett is the Ferris Bueller of our drug addled age. Except he's not a fraction of the charmer ol' Ferris was.

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07/11/08

4/5

The movie is extremely hilarious, yet very serious and emotional at the same time.

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06/01/08

2/5

Charlie Bartlett is a movie you see when everything else is booked up, then wonder why you didn't just have an early night.

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05/18/08

N/A

Charlie Bartlett is not terrible - but in the crowded market of teen comedies, you need to work a whole lot harder to be top of the class, or even to sit at the back with the cool kids.

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05/14/08

N/A

[F]eels like little more than an amalgam of great moments from the John Hughes oeuvre as well as from Thumbsucker, Pump Up the Volume and Over the Edge, among others.

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05/01/08

2/5

Juno's dorkier, needier cousin, the one who's watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off too many times.

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04/17/08

3/4

Even in the canon of high school flicks, Charlie Bartlett seems slight, but like its wide-eyed protagonist, it ultimately wins you over on the strength of its puppy-dog appeal.

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03/16/08

B

Not quite in the elite company of high school comedy classics like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Election," but it is close.

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03/12/08

3/10

Charlie Bartlett is a poor man's Rushmore. There is a great film waiting to be made about psychiatry, anti-depressants and our youth, but this isn't it.

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03/04/08

6/10

(O)ther than the reprehensible glorification of teenage sexual promiscuity, this is a meaningless, forgettable film that is relatively entertaining...

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03/02/08

2/4

Bartlett would make a decent sitcom character, and the uneven film plays out accordingly.

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03/02/08

2/5

...all the fawning and sucking-up to bored and disgruntled teenagers...can't make Charlie anything but a sleazy, pill-pushing sociopath.

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02/29/08

B-

Like Charlie's classmates, you'll likely be skeptical when the film introduces itself -- and then surprised when you're won over by its small charms.

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02/28/08

3/4

...one of the most effective high-school comedies to come around in quite some time...

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02/28/08

7/10

Quirky, provocative and insightful, the slightly overlong but thoroughly enjoyable Charlie Bartlett is a comic gem.

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02/28/08