Charlie Bartlett Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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For the most part, it's an uneven if amiable and occasionally inspired comedy about getting through adolescence that hits some false notes along the way.Read the full review
A refreshingly entertaining character study that refuses to dumb down its youthful cast or bury their concerns in service of a catchy soundtrack.Read the full review
A relentlessly earnest teen film.Read the full review
The movie feels forced, cliched and derivative.Read the full review
I would classify Charlie Bartlett as a smart teen film. It's more ambitious and overall more successful than its '80s forebears even though the resemblance is unmistakable.Read the full review
The film functions as a high-wire act that can leave you giddy with laughter.Read the full review
Yelchin delivers one of those performances that pop eyes... It's a breakthrough role.Read the full review
Robert Downey Jr. is an uncomfortable sight as the school's hard-drinking, overstressed principal.Read the full review
Rollicking story of a rich kid whose wildly successful bid for popularity has him playing drug-distributing shrink to an entire high school boasts pitch-perfect faceoffs between upstart Anton Yelchin and alcoholic principal Robert Downey Jr. that could fuel a chemistry lab.Read the full review
Watching Charlie Bartlett only makes Wes Anderson's work seem more accomplished by comparison, because it underscores that thin line separating the agreeably fanciful from the overbearingly precious.Read the full review
