Liberal Arts seems aggressively cheery, determinedly lacking in negativity, and very affirming in its protagonist's masculine heroism. None of it is a surprise, and as a result, not much of it is very good, either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 9, 2017

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| Nov 8, 2013

he characters are interesting and, again, I really felt for the guy's dilemma whether to start a relationship with this much, much younger girl or not.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 12, 2012

For a film about aging and romanticism, "Liberal Arts" feels like it needs a more mature script.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 25, 2012

"I echo you on Beethoven: wow!" Josh writes to Elizabeth. I paraphrase you on Liberal Arts, sir: yeugh!

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 7, 2012

Liberal Arts maneuvers its story in a philosophical way that is anything but detached. There's a warmth here that reminds audiences why college -- and, dare we say, their core curriculums? -- matter.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 5, 2012

Liberal Arts is fundamentally intelligent and perceptive about a world where everything, or nothing, seems to be equally possible and before life as we know it begins in earnest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2012

You'd do well to take the film's advice: read a book instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 4, 2012

The script's musings on age, and on whether it is a tyranny, an irrelevance or both, form the subtle spine in a movie with a loose, louche, invertebrate-seeming charm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2012

Breezy and unobjectionable though Radnor's film is, it's a sign of his relative inexperience as a writer that everyone has to wind up telling us what they've learnt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2012

Despite a misjudged ending, Liberal Arts is a decent, heart-on-the-sleeve movie; it pays its audience the compliment of treating us like intelligent people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2012

As a comedy of manners, 'Liberal Arts' is perfectly likeable.But you might find its talky touchy-feeliness on the smug side.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2012

Strong writing, great performances (Olsen is the real deal) and a touching, upbeat tale for the big-brained and big-hearted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2012

The trouble with having so many hyphens appended to one man is that it reduces the number of people around with a little perspective and the nerve to point out that he's fashioned a whole movie around the least interesting person in the story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2012

There are some entertaining and moving scenes here, but, overall, it's a bit softhearted for my taste.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2012

"Liberal Arts" sticks to the syllabus of a decidedly minor movie, but its humanities faculty is first-rate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2012

"Liberal Arts" has its bright moments and it's an enjoyable watch, but it probably won't serve up outbursts of laughter or moments of epiphany.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2012

Radnor ... finds both wit and truth in his characters as they face, in their different ways, growing up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 20, 2012

It's talky, but this suits the idea of college as the last bastion of animated and engaging conversation for its own sake.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2012

It's the kind of film that appeals powerfully to me; to others, maybe not so much.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 20, 2012