School of Rock Critic Reviews

Utterly adorable.Read the full review

If quirky, independent, grown-up outsider filmmakers set out to make a family movie, this is the kind of movie they would make. And they did.Read the full review

The School of Rock was made by gifted veterans of the American indie scene, but it's still the most unlikely great movie of the year.Read the full review

Takes a clever premise and Black's unflagging manic energy and comes up with a pleasing mainstream comedy that uses new people and attitudes to entertain in old-fashioned ways.Read the full review

Feel-good tripe: a string of clichés lashed together by a formulaic plot that features underwritten characters and sit-com style humor.Read the full review

Even education can't kill the demon of fun in Black. Enroll in his class and you won't stop laughing.Read the full review

All Black, all the time, and could easily have been an exhausting mess. But the movie is coherent, hilarious and surprisingly sweet.Read the full review

For all its slickness, School of Rock has a let's-put-on-a-show quality that touches you in the most direct way a movie can. It's as if the filmmakers had said, "I'd like to teach the world to kick butt--in perfect harmony."Read the full review

The film hits another comic mother lode in the byplay between Black and Cusack.Read the full review