She's Out of My League
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 12, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
12
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Holleman
If all you want from a movie are generous doses of laughs and some tender moments, She's Out Of My League should be right up your alley. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie is not a comedy classic. But in a genre where so many movies struggle to lift themselves from zero to one, it's about, oh, a six point five. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
You don’t need to root for the best movies and you don’t want to root for the worst. But, occasionally, along comes a picture so nearly good that you dearly wish it were better. Welcome to She’s Out of My League, where the rooting interest is strong but so is the frustration. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The humor gets raunchy enough to earn the "R" rating, but in some ways, it's pretty tame, especially in the wake of "The Hangover." Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
What threatened to be yet another routine exercise in raunchiness instead turns out to be a sweet, charming, hilariously funny love story that could emerge as a sleeper hit. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
There's plenty of gross-out humor and lots of sex jokes, some of them absurd, some really funny. But what elevates She's Out of My League - it doesn't turn a 5 into a 10, but it helps - is heart, of which its characters have a surprising plenty. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
What he (Jay Baruchel) brings to She's Out of My League, in addition to the geek and the gawk, is a dash of the debonair, which might seem impossible and yet he does. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
She's Out of My League essentially plays its central premise straight, although the film does find time to veer into gross-out humor. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Fortunately, the actors are so likable that these wincingly unfunny moments don't spoil the party. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter Travers
A rowdy blast because the spiky young cast treats the played-out script like virgin territory. That's acting! Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
you sense that "The Hangover" loomed large over this production. Still, Eve has a true flair for zingers, and the movie’s heart survives intact. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazinePam Grady
Sometimes hilarious, occasionally outrageous and terribly uneven. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
There are a few sensitive scenes, but it’s the big blasts of raunchy that deliver its laughs. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
If you're hungry to see a romantic comedy about a genetically and culturally imbalanced geek-meets-babe relationship that makes the one in Knocked Up look like the quintessence of plausible human mating, then by all means subject yourself to the one-joke sub–Judd Apatow snark-athon that is She's Out of My League. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyRobert Wilonsky
Slight comedy, directed by Jim Field Smith, who tries with modest success to blend the sticky-sweet with the plain ol' sticky. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
I laughed here and there at She's Out of My League, but I sort of hated everything it had to say about nerds and babes and the sliding scale of self-image. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeLucy Barber
While Baruchel is fun to root for and watch flail about like a pipe-cleaner in the wind, this movie encourages a sick desire in me -- to see Michael Cera and all the runners-up in the Mr. Puniverse Contest knocked down a peg by a bully with a neck the size of a tree trunk. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Plausibility aside, the key to making the scenario work is comedy. Much can be forgiven if it delivers enough laughs. That's the main problem here. It's short on clever humor and big on convention and formula. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
Scenes that should be grotesquely funny deliver only chuckles rather than a big payoff. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
Director Jim Field Smith lifts his best beats from Judd Apatow, and his worst from "American Pie." Read full review
40
VarietyJohn Anderson
This appealingly cast movie seesaws from unlikely thoughtfulness to imbecilic vulgarity. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike Hale
If you’re going to make a romantic comedy called She’s Out of My League about a schlubby nice guy and a pneumatic blonde, the last thing you want is for the audience to be left thinking: “He’s right. She’s way out of his league.” Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Even though She’s Out of My League ends exactly where you think it will, it does so without ever having actually gone anywhere at all. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Baruchel and Eve never shed that awkward first-date chemistry, which speaks less to their talents or the possibilities of mismatched romance than to a movie that forces them together like animals being mated in captivity. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Unfortunately, the movie is the worst sort of liar: an unfunny one. Its gormless, assertion-free protagonist offends as a role model for idio youths, and, even worse, offends as drama. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
There are only two really good jokes -- or two really gross ones, depending on your sensibility -- in She's Out of My League. Both of them are stolen. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
About as close to pure mall fodder as you'll see. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
The only memorable aspect of She's Out of My League is Eve's performance. Not that it's good, but it does possess the hypnotic quality of a flicker ring. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Would like to think of itself as an extension of its lead character -- gangly, a bit uncouth, but ultimately sweet. Unfortunately, it's more like the best friend in a movie like this -- irritating, unfunny and something that hangs around longer than it should. Read full review
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