If Admission had become an edgier film, I have a strange feeling that we'd be watching yet another really great Tina Fey comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

Despite the formulaic structure-every character is a type, paired off with his or her textbook opposite-there's a whiff of inside-baseball realism to the its detailed portrait of the university admissions process...

| Aug 14, 2019

Admission has some funny moments and it has some poignant moments. Unfortunately, the film never seems quite able to determine what its focus should be. This results in a movie that never quite clicks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2019

While Rudd and Fey may not have the most fiery on-screen chemistry, they're always enjoyable to watch. I'd call this one a rainy-day rental.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 6, 2018

Tina Fey and Paul Rudd are Hollywood's comedy sweethearts... But while the film gets high scores, it's not passing with flying colors.

| Oct 23, 2018

It pains me to lay this problem at the feet of the leads, of whom I am, independently, quite fond. They are both likeable, and I'll even grant them some chemistry, but their characters' situations become too serious for the performances they deliver.

| Aug 22, 2018

Portia is in many ways a typical [Tina] Fey character but the unfunny and clichéd script too often reminds us this is no 30 Rock.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Because all these narrative threads are presented with equal emphasis, no single one feels fully developed. And Fey and Rudd's screen time together is rushed; audiences don't get the chance to become invested in their characters.

| Mar 8, 2017

Admission fizzles out to an almost aggressive extent and finally does conclude on as anticlimactic a note as one could envision...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2016

It is neither a broad comedy nor a dopey rom-com; it's actually, surprisingly enough, a seriocomic drama in something resembling the Alexander Payne mold, a slightly eccentric examination of flawed people doing their very best.

| Jun 21, 2016

Photographed in fifty shades of beige, Admission is the blandest film I've seen in months.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

At the heart of the problem with this movie are matters of logic and cogency.

| Jan 3, 2014

A romantic dramedy about a passionate erudite oddball woman with her own life? Hooray!

| Nov 5, 2013

What's a romantic comedy to do when it is neither romantic nor comedic? When that film is Admission, it plunges forward drunkenly, hoping to overcome its inadequacies with goodwill created by the cast.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2013

Overstays its welcome before petering out unremarkably.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 12, 2013

An engaging cast holds our interest even when this rom-com meanders down unnecessary sideroads and dips into corny sentimentality.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 20, 2013

Princeton must have thought this film could help its reputation. It's more likely to increase applications to Yale, Harvard and MIT.

| Jun 17, 2013

Given two options, Admission routinely takes the less interesting of the two, and wastes a great deal of on-screen talent in the process.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 17, 2013

Have you ever wondered how the admission procedure functions in Ivy League universities? No, me neither.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2013

There are chuckles and moving moments, just not enough of them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2013