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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 23 Aug 2007

Rocket Science flies beyond the standard teen preoccupations, moving into territory that combines humor and eccentricity with fragile hope…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 23 Aug 2007

Blitz's dialogue is often clever, and the young cast members impress, particularly relative newcomers Thompson and Kendrick…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 23 Aug 2007

Buoyed by a script rife with poetry, a handful of dynamic performances and Eef Barzelay's near-perfect score, Rocket Science mildly shames…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for KyleSmithOnline.com (53) on 23 Aug 2007

A frightening memorandum from a dismal and mysterious dungeon: high school…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Aug 2007

The kind of character that Hal develops into in the face of adversity lasts forever. High school only lasts four years…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 23 Aug 2007

All of the acting is first-rate, but Thompson is fantastic…

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By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 23 Aug 2007

One of the pleasures of Blitz's film is that it immerses us in the fraught, competitive pressures of the high-school debate world-like Spellbound,…

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By Toddy Burton (54) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 23 Aug 2007

There is one absolutely inspired scene in Rocket Science, and for this scene alone, it’s pretty much worth the price of admission…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 22 Aug 2007

Learning that in such a world everyone, even debate champions, is equal can be as therapeutic as finally ordering a slice of pizza…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 17 Aug 2007

The surest sign of the movie’s integrity is that it resists any temptation to build the story to a climactic debate…

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By Mike Russell (146) for Oregonian (1,550) on 16 Aug 2007

A dry, vicious and deeply moving little comedy that sort of takes the structure of a teen sports movie, then undermines that structure at every turn…

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By Liz Braun (961) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 16 Aug 2007

Rocket Science is wise and funny and often surprising, a nice touch in moviedom, where predictable is considered a good thing…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 16 Aug 2007

I suspect a lot of high school students will recognize elements of real life in the movie, and that the movie will build a following…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Aug 2007

Like its characters--and unlike those in most pictures set in high school--this movie is smart…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 15 Aug 2007

A strong contender to become a student classic…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Aug 2007

Doesn't quite work but is worth seeing anyway…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Aug 2007

Comes tantalizingly close to the genius of Hal Ashby's unforced, sympathetic humanism…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 13 Aug 2007

I thought it was cloying, self-congratulatory and irritating…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Maxim (189) on 09 Aug 2007

There should be no debate that this little gem deserves to be as big a hit as it was at Sundance…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Aug 2007

Rocket Science has the makings of either a tragedy or a crowd-pleasing underdog story, but writer-director Jeffrey Blitz instead takes the…

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