The Secret Lives of Dorks
| Release Date: September 27, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonSep 26, 2013
Johnny Severin and Nicholas David Brandt's otherwise clever and original script takes an unexpected turn at nearly every intersection, resulting in a funny and big-hearted coming-of-age romance. Read full review
50
VarietyScott FoundasOct 15, 2013
Winning performances by a number of fresh-faced newcomers are almost but not quite enough to recommend The Secret Lives of Dorks, a fitfully amusing, more often shrill and overstated teen comedy that, like its dweeby protagonist, tries too hard to impress. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloSep 25, 2013
It’s arguable that the jocks and cheerleaders are this movie’s true heroes, without whom those pathetic dorks would never be able to find one another. Read full review
40
The DissolveNoel MurraySep 26, 2013
It has a good heart and a good cast, mixing Hollywood veterans with some of today’s better young TV stars. But the movie is strenuously, exhaustingly unfunny, in a way that makes its phoniness harder to bear. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSep 25, 2013
A formulaic comedy that displays as much subtlety as its title. Read full review
30
Village VoiceChris PackhamSep 24, 2013
The Secret Lives of Dorks, starring Jim Belushi, is, well, the Jim Belushi of high-school romantic comedies: indifferent, kind of exhausted. Read full review
0
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSep 26, 2013
There’s no way to prepare yourself for how awful The Secret Lives of Dorks is. Read full review
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