It makes The Breakfast Club look like one of the smartest experiences of your life.

Full Review | Dec 20, 2017

Not terrible, but this MTV teen movie falls flat.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

...compelling subject matter that is, for the most part, employed to hopelessly underwhelming and curious sluggish effect...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 2, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 7, 2004

The work of a filmmaker and team of writers so conscious of their own formulaic crutch that they demand a production that feels like more than the sum of its parts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2004

The Perfect Score is amenable, enjoyable and as quickly forgotten as all those tricks you learned in your SAT prep class.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Mar 16, 2004

What could, and should, have been as fun and daring as skipping school turns out to be as dull as a two-hour detention.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2004

The filmmakers need to re-watch "Ocean's Eleven" study up, and remind themselves of this important fact: Even teenagers want a movie that makes them think.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 27, 2004

Is it a heist movie? A teen coming of age flick? A high school comedy? A morality play? It's sort of all of those, but really none of them, as it doesn't quite hit the mark.

Full Review | Original Score: 64/100 | Feb 15, 2004

As a teen movie, "The Perfect Score" is just passable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 14, 2004

Were it not for the recent "Arrival" of one Scarlett Johansson, The Perfect Score would still be holding down a shelf in the Paramount Pictures - Do Not Release office.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 14, 2004

... Tries in vain to be both The Breakfast Club and Ocean's Eleven.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 6, 2004

Ocean's Eleven goes to high school and flunks out in a dumbed-down caper film.

Full Review | Feb 5, 2004

In the end, everyone learns to do the "right" thing and, essentially, fulfills his or her standardized role in society.

Full Review | Feb 5, 2004

An even more lame-brained sitcom than that in which director Brian Robbins starred many eons ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 5, 2004