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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 09 Aug 2007

It is smart, witty and blessedly unpredictable…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 09 Aug 2007

One of the year's most endearing coming-of-age stories…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 08 Aug 2007

I was fascinated by both the story being told and with the characters inhabiting it, the movie so universal and emotionally complex I was almost…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 08 Aug 2007

You could pin it as yet another in a long line of Wes Anderson/Todd Solondz rip-offs, and in some ways, it sorta is…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 08 Aug 2007

Thompson and Kendricks and the debate scenes make this one of the best coming-of-age stories in many months…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 08 Aug 2007

To his credit, Blitz throws in an unexpected twist that delivers a more ambivalent ending than your typical sports movie…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 08 Aug 2007

Blitz's one-man revenge of the nerds continues with this narrative-feature debut, a smartypants comedy about a kid with a lot going on inside…

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By Mark Holcomb (179) for Time Out (7,510) on 08 Aug 2007

Blitz gets too much mileage out of a pair of kooky (or kookily) Korean neighbors, but even that's mitigated by his unapologetic affection for…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 06 Aug 2007

Never stoops to the tawdriness of the merely conventional or the expected. It is droll, wicked, and scathingly original…

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By Jim Ridley (126) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 06 Aug 2007

Once Rocket Science enters the realm of the debate competition, the director's eye for detail never deserts him…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 06 Aug 2007

The problem with Rocket Science is that the character at the center of the drama isn't very energetic or, truth be told, interesting…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 29 Jul 2007

Adolescent angst in a movie that's about as quirky and unpredictable as a film-maker can get…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 18 Jul 2007

A fiercely personal and yet engaging--and often outright hysterical--look into a young man on the brink of adulthood…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for New Times (467) on 01 Jul 2007

This may be the most realistic high school underdog comedy since Welcome to the Dollhouse, if you consider that a comedy…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 06 Jun 2007

Positively winning coming-of-age drama/comedy stacks the deck with newcomer Reece Daniel Thompson as Hal Hefner, a stuttering New Jersey High…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 08 Apr 2007

Blitz captures the melancholy, the rage, the wackiness and drama of adolescence, and he gets winning performances out of his young stars…

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By Stephen Saito (325) for Premiere (771) on 15 Feb 2007

As fate would have it, Rocket Science might prove to be the handiwork of a burgeoning cinematic genius…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 01 Feb 2007

Mixing humor with a compassionate regard for his characters and their idiosyncrasies, Blitz creates a film replete with insights that emerge…

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By Ray Greene (127) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 25 Jan 2007

This is bleak, graveyard humor, bordering on nihilism, but Rocket Science manages to put it across and still retain its essential sweetness…

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By Duane Byrge (235) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 25 Jan 2007

Catapulted by an endearing lead performance by Reece Daniel Thompson as a stuttering high-school student, Rocket Science transcends the predictable…

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