Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
56
(37 sources)
56
(37 sources)
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Entertainment Weekly
It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning. Read Full Review » -
88
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie has been directed by the Farrelly brothers...Here, they're sensitive and warm-hearted, never push too hard, empathize with the characters, allow Lindsey and Ben to become people we care about. Read Full Review » -
88
Baltimore Sun
Baseball, Boston and Drew Barrymore. Certainly sounds like a winning combination. Read Full Review » -
80
Variety
The Farrelly brothers are growing up, which in this case isn't a bad thing. With a tacked-on ending made necessary by the Boston Red Sox's improbable World Series run last fall, Fever Pitch proves a charming romantic comedy against "A Beautiful Mind"-type framework. Read Full Review » -
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Chicago Tribune
The gall of Peter and Bobby Farrelly. To think that a romantic comedy might work absent a sleazy wager or maddening miscommunication takes a lot of chutzpah. Read Full Review » -
75
Charlotte Observer
The picture's consistently entertaining and, though it has few brilliant comic peaks, it never plunges into boring valleys. Read Full Review » -
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70
Dallas Observer
Sails by on cute dialogue, some funny visual gags, and two enormously likable leads. Read Full Review » -
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Ultimately goes the distance, it gets the job done with a halfhearted bunt rather than a solid line drive. Read Full Review » -
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Portland Oregonian
This is Hollywood Hornby: not terrible, but not worth crossing a busy street for, and nowhere near as memorable as what the Sox did last year. Read Full Review » -
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
As a motion picture, Fever Pitch is merely competent. Read Full Review » -
63
USA Today
By contrast, other Hornby screen adaptations are "About a Boy" and "High Fidelity"- superb comedies both and, in Fidelity's case, a treatise on male obsession with far more depth and even more laughs. Read Full Review » -
63
New York Daily News
Relationship comedy like this is mother's milk to Drew Barrymore, who, as usual, is adorable and perfect. Read Full Review » -
60
Wall Street Journal
For all its various failures, Fever Pitch taps expertly into our nostalgia for an era when baseball really was the American pastime, unsullied by money, drugs or celebrity. Read Full Review » -
60
Chicago Reader
To call this "Farrelly brothers lite" may be a little redundant, but aside from the odd vomit gag, it goes relatively easy on their usual working-class taboo busting. Read Full Review » -
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Barrymore has rarely been so bright and effortlessly charming, but it's all lost on Fallon, who often resembles one of those unfortunate SNL guests who freeze up on live TV, completely out of their element. If Fallon wants a life after SNL, he might want to try another medium. Read Full Review » -
60
The New York Times
Still, despite the visual clumsiness and the production's tattered seams, I found myself rooting for this movie anyway, partly because Lindsey and Ben make a nice fit, as do the actors playing them, partly because the Farrellys bring so much heart to their movies, and partly because Ms. Barrymore inspires more goodwill than any other young actress I can think of working today in American movies. Read Full Review » -
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TV Guide
If you're rooting for Barrymore and Fallon, then why not their team? In the movies, there are enough happy endings for everyone. Read Full Review » -
60
Slate
I prefer the Farrellys when they're disreputable and push the boundaries of taste, because they're otherwise a tad sentimental. Read Full Review » -
60
Empire
Not a Farrelly brothers classic, and (some testicle-washing aside) not much in the way of their trademark gross-out humour, but the boys from Boston do an admirable job of transferring Hornby's story into the States and onto the baseball diamond. Read Full Review » -
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50
Rolling Stone
The movie is so soggy and anonymous, I had to remind myself that the Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby, directed it. It's sad to watch the kingpins of gross-out try to dial down to cute. Swung at and missed. Read Full Review » -
50
Miami Herald
Fever Pitch is surprisingly devoid of jokes, or romance, or any of the other basic elements you'd expect to find in a romantic comedy. The only thing the Farrellys get right is the obsession. Read Full Review » -
50
Village Voice
But the ickiest thing about Fever Pitch is its reverential Field of Dreams music. Read Full Review » -
50
Washington Post
If anything, Fever Pitch will give Bosox fans one more chance to relive, in big-screen glory, those fleeting, flavorsome days. Read Full Review » -
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San Francisco Chronicle
A romantic comedy that flirts with something serious but never gets past the flirting stage. Read Full Review » -
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New York Post
Rarely have filmmakers had a more wildly improbable happy ending forced on them. Well, you need all the help you can get, divine or otherwise, when your two stars - Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon - have no chemistry whatsoever. Read Full Review » -
40
Film Threat
Honestly, this movie would've worked a lot better had the Red Sox not won the World Series. Read Full Review » -
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Austin Chronicle
Ultimately, it's a bore. Don't see the movie - read the book, play the game. Read Full Review »
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