My First Mister
Paramount Classics | Release Date: October 12, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
9
Negative:
7
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50
Chicago ReaderRonnie Scheib
A bathetic TV-movie-type "learning experience" that provides about as much insight into teenagers as 40s westerns did into Indians--it's all in the costumes and customs. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleRussell Smith
The splendid performance by Sobieski, who ends her long run as industry-mag buzz princess and arrives as a full-fledged star. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Sobieski manages to make Jennifer's inevitable transformation more than a little bittersweet. Apparently even clichés click sometimes. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The harder this film tries to be quirky and edgy, the more it feels like a run-of-the mill TV movie. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
My First Mister, which was written by Jill Franklyn, watches Jennifer with lively interest, but rarely pierces the mysteries of her soul.
50
Film ThreatMichael Dequina
Lahti's feature directorial debut plays like a watered-down variation ("Ghost World") -- that is, until the final third, when the film not only deviates but flat out derails. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Brooks guards the movie from overheating in a surfeit of warmedy. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
By the film's interminable, unforgivably embarrassing third act it sinks in a sticky swamp of sentimentality. Read full review
40
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Lahti's feature directorial debut walks an innocuous middle line between the story's maudlin possibilities and its meaningful potential. Read full review
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