Coolidge has gotten onto something here, and the pity is that the story she's stuck with never gets her any deeper into it.

| Jan 3, 2018

The humor is relentlessly cruel, smug, and disconnected from any sense of how human beings might behave in similar situations.

| May 30, 2007

What lifts the production above the run-of-the-mill is swift direction by Martha Coolidge, who has a firm grasp over the manic material.

| May 30, 2007

It does make you wonder if the drive of the US education system is ultimately to develop better weapons of mass-destruction, though Coolidge's movie is too hazily good-natured to capitalise on the tougher aspects of the material.

| Jun 24, 2006

What the film needs, instead of these familiar teen-movie trappings, is a cleverness and eccentricity to match that of its characters. For the most part, these are qualities that it lacks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2003

Real Genius contains many pleasures, but one of the best is its conviction that the American campus contains life as we know it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000