Post Grad
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: August 21, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
13
Negative:
10
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75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's a screwball comedy. It's also, I have to say, a feel-good movie that made me smile a lot. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The material may be formulaic, but the spirit of the piece is friendly. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin Wilson
After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeLaura Bennett
A disjointed patchwork of zany character sketches lacking in coherence and credibility. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
A harmless, aimless, mildly funny and thoroughly predictable comic-romantic piffle. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Post Grad isn't funny, surprising, or insightful enough to provoke more than a ho-hum reaction. It's not bad in the way that many failed comedies are bad; it's simply uninspired. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Ms. Bledel works her “Gilmore Girls” charm to the hilt, but no amount of cerulean-eyed sparkle can transcend this level of thudding mediocrity. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
So swaddled in good intentions that it's like taking a very short journey cushioned on all sides by air bags. That are stuffed with cotton candy. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Dismayingly conservative dramedy. Read full review
40
Village VoiceVadim Rizov
In 2009. Vicky Jenson's live-action debut is as cartoonish as her work on "Shrek," and that's OK for the comic bits. The rest seems like a remarkably cynical cross-breed—for all demographics, but, ultimately, for none. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
An innocuous -- to the point of blandness -- look at the "hardships" of a recent college grad. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter Debruge
As fiction characters go, Ryden seems as dull as they come, making it hard to muster much sympathy for her plight. Read full review
40
Washington PostDan Kois
Boils down, in the end, to the age-old question: Career or life? That Post Grad draws a stark line between the two, and forces its heroine into an untenable decision, might be the most disappointing thing about a movie that never quite succeeds in capturing a generation adrift. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Bledel brings a sweet, steady presence, but this sort of minor project is a step backwards. It's high time she graduated on to bigger and better things. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Ostensibly a comedy, and a feeble and innocuous one at that, Post Grad is one of those what-were-they-thinking? Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
When a film whose cast includes Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch, Fred Armisen, Craig Robinson, Demetri Martin, and the now rarely seen Carol Burnett can’t scare up more than a smattering of laughs, the patient was never meant to live in the first place. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
A joyless fluffball about after-college job woes with a dispiriting message for smart young women. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
An annoying, tedious little film. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Staff (Not credited)
A promising premise simply devolves into just another "Definitely, Maybe" or "The Proposal." Read full review
25
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
Most of the time, however, Post Grad just coasts along, flat as a mortar board, and as forgettable as a ... oh, I forgot already. Read full review
20
Time OutS. James Snyder
Timing’s everything in comedy, so perhaps Post Grad would have seemed peppier prior to the Great Recession; circa now, this comedy feels like a cynical stroll through the unemployment lines awaiting today’s class of seniors. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
We are meant to think they are all delightfully and amusingly eccentric (characters). Actually, they're just creepy Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Bland to the point of pointlessness. Read full review
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