Admission (2013)

◄ Admission (2013)

Metascore

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75	Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman Admission, a likably breezy campus movie directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy), is blissfully non-insulting.
63	Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea Admission works in stops and starts.
63	Boston Globe Ty Burr Cheerful, skittish entertainment that never takes its subject seriously enough.
63	USA Today Claudia Puig Largely because of its engaging cast, Admission is an amiable, but only slightly-above-average, comic romp.
50	The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy Deftly playing Tina Fey's feminist-icon mother, Lily Tomlin all but steals Admission, a knowing but uneven comedy about the neuroticism of the college-admission process on both sides of the equation.
50	Rolling Stone Peter Travers I'd see Tina Fey and Paul Rudd in anything, but this is pushing it. Admission is so slight that a breeze could flatten it.
50	San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle Everybody in Admission is funny - Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn - but they're not funny in Admission.
50	Chicago Sun-Times Admission has some sublime moments, most of them involving Fey and Rudd dancing around their inevitable romance. The problem is in the foundation.
30	Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern Nobody doesn't like Tina Fey, and anyone aware of her starring role in Admission will be wishing her well. But wishing won't make this dramedy any less dreary than it is.
20	New York Daily News Joe Neumaier The bad news about Admission is that this thin envelope of a comedy checks all the boxes for being a phoned-in, phony, padded rom-com.