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

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

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

| Jan 3, 2014

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

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

Intermittently sharp but often dully over-extended.

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

The comic material really isn't there, and the plot transitions feel forced and uncomfortable ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2013

The movie subverts expectations, and not in a good way, by seeming in a dither about its own identity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2013

This is comedy with zero pulse.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2013

The themes are important, even if in this Hollywood laundering they are sloshed about in love suds and clattered by uneven comedy spins.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2013

Occasionally charming but mostly bland fare from Weitz, despite the reliable cast. About A Boy remains the best showcase of his talents.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2013

The many strands of this amiable yet overstuffed romantic comedy don't hang together, though each, on its own, has a modest charm.

| Apr 1, 2013

What is most distressing about Admission is that it serves as further evidence that Tina Fey, despite her dominance of the small screen, has not yet mastered the big one.

| Mar 22, 2013

This is certainly an interesting idea, though the movie is badly handicapped by Fey, who must venture beyond her usual snippiness into scenes of genuine poignancy and proves unequal to the task.

| Mar 22, 2013

Granted, this is not automatic laugh-riot material, nor should it be, but didn't Fey recognize how hackneyed it all is?

| Original Score: C- | Mar 22, 2013

If Fey ends up making movies as good as this one over the next few years, television's loss will have been cinema's gain, for real.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2013

This would be a good movie for a parent to watch with a high-school-age child facing down the college admissions slog-it's mildly snarky but resolutely uncynical.

| Mar 22, 2013

Some films are electric - Admission settles for alternating current.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2013

When in doubt, ma'am, just ask yourself: What would Tina Fey do?

| Original Score: B | Mar 22, 2013

In their central roles, Rudd and Fey have a natural, unforced chemistry. John and Portia are cute as buttons, but they're also goofy, confused and flawed people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2013

The commercials make it look like a standard romantic comedy but the plot line about reuniting with a child put up for adoption feels awkward, cluttered, and intrusive.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 21, 2013