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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 10 Jun 2013

Though it features witty dialogue and good performances, the plot contrivances keep it from being an altogether winning enterprise…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Jun 2013

Poirier is a master at dialogue. His script crackles with sharp lines and he gives all his scenes a splendid comic undertow…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 23 Mar 2013

Page and Church work so brilliantly together as a comic team that it's worth enduring the leads' utter lack of chemistry together - not to…

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By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire (3,446) on 08 Nov 2012

Strong performances and a few laughs, but the story feels lazy next to superior efforts recently in the same genre…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 28 Dec 2011

The middling romantic comedy Smart People, which centers on a hyperintellectual dysfunctional family, is of interest chiefly for the first…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 06 Oct 2011

The main problem with Smart People is that it never breaks new ground…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Jul 2011

Quaid and Church are funny, but too much of this film is not half as smart as it thinks it is…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 03 Jun 2011

Quaid doesn't have much to work with, and so deflects the portrayal away from the mind toward the body – consistently giving the coot a hunched,…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 21 Jan 2011

A good deal of the freshness comes from a grand, clownish slob played by Thomas Haden Church -- he's actually the smartest person of the piece…

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By Zack Haddad (29) for Film Threat (5,156) on 27 Nov 2010

It is just too bad that this film isn’t as snarky and groundbreaking as it would like you to think it is…

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By Ryan Stewart (47) for Premiere (771) on 24 Nov 2010

Dennis Quaid is mostly lost at sea as Lawrence Wetherhold, the Carnegie Mellon lit professor; he apparently saw fit to tinker with his performance…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 05 May 2010

Doesn't exactly oust The Royal Tenenbaums or The Squid and the Whale, but this family-go-round sitcom is a lot more accessible…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Jan 2010

It's impossible to tell whether the film's ending is happy because it's happy or because it's ending…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 04 Nov 2009

The ensemble can't bring enough, though, to overcome the unoriginal setup and predictable story arc…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Jul 2009

There much more roiling beneath the surface of these characters and it's a shame we don't come to understand them better…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 22 Jun 2009

Smart People tastes as fake as a Wal-Mart corn dog…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinematical (752) on 17 Oct 2008

It's so well-made, so well-acted and so impressively (for lack of a better word) smart that anyone who seeks it out will find something to…

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By Susan Tavernetti (105) for Palo Alto Weekly (965) on 17 Oct 2008

Award-winning commercial director Noam Murro helms a fine cast playing all-too-familiar roles…

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By Heather Huntington (72) for ReelzChannel.com (132) on 07 Sep 2008

All atmosphere and no plot makes Smart People a dull watch…

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By Felix Gonzalez Jr. (95) for DVD Review (95) on 26 Aug 2008

a deadly dull narrative about four depressed stereotypes who spend an hour and a half going from unhappy to slightly less unhappy…

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