Raise Your Voice
New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 8, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
10
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
What is unusual and exciting about the movie is the assemblage of raw talent in the cast. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Raises the bar for movies geared to teens. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
As for Duff, she's bright-eyed and bubbly, though her singing talents are nowhere near as awesome as Raise Your Voice's who's-going-to-win-the-big-scholarship plotline requires. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverJean Oppenheimer
Fame this film ain't. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLuke Sader
Should attract Duff's core audience but not much more than that. Read full review
50
VarietyLael Loewenstein
Duff makes an engaging heroine, but her immaculately coifed blonde locks and undiminished lip gloss remind viewers just how much of a star vehicle this actually is. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAnita Gates
Ms. Duff's screen presence and the film's infectious high spirits will make this piece of fluff appealing to young moviegoers without conveying any sinister messages Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The movie's enthusiasm is as indelible and shiny as the lip gloss its star wears to bed. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Hilary Duff makes me long for the comparatively Dostoyevskian depths of Sandra Dee. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWinda Benedetti
An awkward and sometimes confused thing fraught with overwrought emotions and misguided ideals. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Duff, who became a teen-set role model portraying Lizzie McGuire for Disney, has sold over four million records and toured to packed houses, yet screenwriter Sam Schreiber and director Sean McNamara, both making feature debuts, set her up to sing just one song through to completion. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Hilary Duff can't rise above an overbearing script with underdeveloped roles. Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The movie is going to be fine for PG-ready audiences, assuming they don't have a problem with extremely predictable story turns. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
Worst of all, though, is the movie's moral maneuvering. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Loaded with so much drama that the story sinks into a grim, sloppy soap-opera mix. Read full review
38
USA TodayMike Clark
Actor John Corbett, so clean-cut in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Raising Helen," goes surprisingly scruffy here as someone who apparently studied music under Grizzly Adams. Read full review
30
Village VoiceLaura Sinagra
The God-squad answer to Todd Graff's "Camp." Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This teen romance doesn't have a single authentic moment. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineAngel Cohn
The poorly executed scenes in which Duff's singing voice was clearly post-dubbed and her own lack of emotional range keep the film from rising to whatever potential it may have had. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Her dad was right about one thing. Something terrible did happen to her (Duff) in Los Angeles. She made this movie. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Overlong, blandly soporific. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Leah McLaren
The film suffers from a syndrome I'll call the Pop Princess's New Clothes. Hilary can't really sing, and neither can Terri, so you can't help but wonder, what's the big whoop? Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Dreadful. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Frankly, one's sympathy sides more with the class bitch who thinks she has the better voice and deserves the choral solo instead of Terri. In your heart you know she's right. Read full review
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