Movie Reviews: "Post Grad"

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Movie Reviews: Post Grad


Fox Searchlight's Post Grad, starring Alexis Bledel, received little marketing push, and decent critical reviews failed to help it much at the box office.

It's a feel-good movie that had the desired effect on most critics.

Typical was Roger Ebert's reaction in the Chicago Sun-Times. "Oh, it's not a great movie," he wrote. "It won't alter the course of cinema. It won't make any 10 best lists. If you're cynical or jaded, it might not get past you. But here is the first movie in a long time that had me actually admitting I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel."

His cross-town colleague, Michael Phillips, writing in the Chicago Tribune, agreed, calling the movie, a "minor but agreeable romantic comedy."
He particularly singled out the performance of Michael Keaton. "Watching Keaton," he wrote, "you're reminded how much this hugely talented actor can do with a simple setup, a few deft physical maneuvers and unpredictable timing."

But Kyle Smith in the New York Post faulted the film for "excessive niceness," noting that the accusation may be unfair, "but Post Grad is so swaddled in good intentions that it's like taking a very short journey cushioned on all sides by air bags. That are stuffed with cotton candy."

And it was all a bit too much for Greg Quill, who, after describing the plot in the Toronto Star, wrote: "If this sounds like the plotline of an episode of Father Knows Best or The Brady Bunch, you're on the money. With its family of well-off, well-meaning bumblers living large and oblivious in a cozy, all-white pocket of suburbia, Post Grad is an insipid throwback to a sanctified and safe middle-class America that no longer exists, if it ever did."

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