Eisenberg and Stewart have a low-key chemistry that serves the movie well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2023

Here’s that rare youth flick where it’s actually believable that the brainy guy gets the girl.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2023

A rather dreary coming-of-age drama with some witty dialogue and too-broad performances.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 22, 2022

A sincere, if somewhat Hollywoodized, coming-of-age love story.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Greg Mottola beautifully captures the awkwardness of post-adolescence in his semi-autobiographical romantic comedy - and he does a pretty good job of evoking the look and mood of late-1980s America too.

| Nov 24, 2020

Adventureland is a fine film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

The underlying sweetness of Adventureland carries the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2019

Mottola strikes a pitch-perfect balance between drama and comedy, summing up the hopes and dreams of those in that final transitional period into the real world.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

The film is a pleasant surprise -- smart, funny and tender.

| Original Score: A- | May 16, 2019

Adventureland is written and directed by Greg Mottola, the director of the raunchy bromance Superbad, but with this film, he has given us something more personal and, at the same time, more universal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2018

It's the opposite of the Hollywood dream that you never let go.In this case the big, gaudy ambition turn out to be empty and pointless.

| Jan 2, 2018

...a comedy so human it is tragic.

| Nov 16, 2017

A film so tuned in to the pre-collegiate experience that scenes which play as comedy to some audiences will land as harrowing tragedy to others.

| May 27, 2016

Greg Mottola's third feature is more emotionally rich than his The Daytrippers and Superbad, but it's still more interested in the comedy than the woe and anxiety of the transition into adulthood.

| May 17, 2016

It's a film of overwhelming goodwill. You'll like everyone in this movie, and you'll leave the theater thinking they would probably like you too.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 22, 2013

The messages -- about silver linings in lousy jobs, the collision of hormones and heartstrings, and the adventure of discovering who you really are and what you really want -- ring honest and true, for any era.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2011

Adventureland is ultimately an interesting but flawed mixture of Mottolla's early indie sensibility (The Daytrippers) with some of the more mainstream teen comedy elements of Superbad.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 26, 2011

Adventureland's young cast is strong, and, when the film works, it captures the languid limbo of post-adolescent confusion and longing.

| Original Score: B | Apr 20, 2011

It's a bit slight and rambling, but also manages to engage us due to the sharply drawn characters

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2010

[Mottola has] done his job in making the work feel authentic, funny, and like a breeze to sit through.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 23, 2010