Just Looking
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 13, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Miami HeraldCurtis Morgan
The characters are easy to overplay, but the ensemble keeps its feet on the ground. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
A coming-of-age film that has the jaunty mood and egg-cream flavor of a Philip Roth memoir. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneLoren King
A teen comedy wise beyond its years. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis Harvey
It goes down as easy as a cherry Coke. Read full review
70
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Deserves more than just a look. Read full review
63
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
Too smitten with the Eisenhower-era nostalgia. Read full review
60
Rolling StonePeter Travers
There's not that much that's new in screenwriter Marshall Karp's sitcom-ish memoir, but Alexander keeps the laughs coming.
58
Entertainment WeeklyTy Burr
The pacing is lumpy, the acting's all over the map. Read full review
52
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
At best a vaguely Semitic episode of "The Wonder Years." Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
Pleasant, ultimately sweet but never quite inspired. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
There are enough grace notes and gentle surprises strewn along this well-trod path to make Just Looking just good enough to justify Alexander's career move. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
It's merely a by-the-numbers coming-of-age film Read full review
50
Village VoiceLeslie Camhi
Marshall Karp's script is clever and funny, though studded with anachronisms. Read full review
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Generic memoir of lower-middle-class "white ethnic" life in the '50s. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Old-fashioned comedy-drama. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Fails to create a seamless and believable web of measured performances and period color. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Contains some nicely observed moments, but they're buried in an unrepentantly sitcomy script. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A candy-colored, unabashedly sentimental movie. Read full review
20
Film.comRobert Horton
A clumsy and tone-deaf comedy. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
This sort of nostalgia-drenched, sexual-coming-of-age saga has been done to death. Read full review
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