Senior Year
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): May 13, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMay 13, 2022
The extremely game presence of actors like Zoë Chao, Veep's Sam Richardson, and This Is Us's Justin Hartley (as the dimpled bohunk she left behind) help anchor the chaotic wisp of a plot that follows, as does Wilson's barrelling, blithely crass energy. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMay 14, 2022
Senior Year is not an ambitious movie, but it’s mostly a sweet one, and frequently funny. Read full review
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VarietyDennis HarveyMay 13, 2022
If Alex Hardcastle’s effortfully high-spirited Netflix feature isn’t exactly good, it’s still good enough to provide reasonable throwaway fun, thanks much less to the material than to a cast that elevates it when they can. Read full review
57
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerMay 13, 2022
If Senior Year had been willing to further develop its affectionate social satire, it might have been a surprise 2020s classic of the teen-movie genre. Instead, it’s dead set on proving it has heart, too, and in the process becomes as thirsty for likes as any teenager’s Insta. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 13, 2022
Senior Year is a just-OK movie, but it’s a very good Rebel Wilson movie, in that she has been funny in supporting roles, but this is the first time she has excelled as the name above the title. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 13, 2022
Senior Year doesn’t come across as condescending or cynical; it’s just harmless and sweetly dopey and instantly forgettable. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMay 13, 2022
Senior Year takes two high-concept premises—the going-back-to-high-school movie and the waking-up-from-a-coma movie—and slams them together in an intermittently amusing but mostly obvious comedy. Read full review
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IndieWireKate ErblandMay 13, 2022
Little in Senior Year will surprise, and the film chugs through its predictable beats with good humor, but there’s not much else to recommend it. Wilson makes for a fun heroine who’s worth rooting for, bawdy, and down for whatever, but the film isn’t willing to let those tendencies run wild. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubCourtney HowardMay 13, 2022
Painfully simplistic in its execution, which frequently undervalues its clever set-up, and featuring unlikeable, poorly drawn characters, the movie works overtime to make the audience actively dislike it. Read full review
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The New York TimesAmy NicholsonMay 13, 2022
The film’s early snark turns as cloying and insincere as the cultural doublespeak that it parodies. By the final act, its dialogue is so burdened by inspirational maxims about personal authenticity that it feels as though the script has been hijacked by yearbook quotes. Read full review
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The GuardianBenjamin LeeMay 13, 2022
Tonally, it’s all over the place, that aforementioned sap curdled together with Wilson’s trademark crudeness, an R-rated comedy that wants to be both sweet and salty, a balance it never manages to perfect. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreMay 14, 2022
The general comic ineptitude at work here muzzles killer supporting player Chris Parnell (playing her dad) and squanders fine, bubbly work by Rice (“Spider-Man: No Way Home”) in the film’s faster-paced opening act. Read full review
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Screen RantMae AbdulbakiMay 16, 2022
While Senior Year has certain moments that are indeed funny, it’s not enough to overcome the film’s many flaws. Read full review
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