Blu-rays, DVDs & more
eBay affliate link
Art of the Movies
Buy posters on MoviePoster.com
IMDb
Rocket Science movie stills
Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science doesn't quite work but is worth seeing anyway. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Blitz continues to make a case for himself as a filmmaker with rich, realistic stories to tell. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Quietly written and convincingly played, this coming-of-age story mines its rueful laughs from a thick vein of performance anxiety, in both senses of the term. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Rocket Science has the makings of either a tragedy or a crowd-pleasing underdog story, but writer-director Jeffrey Blitz instead takes the movie on a different, and ultimately more rewarding, direction. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: It's a high-concept idea that Blitz executes without the usual payoffs. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: All of the acting is first-rate, but Thompson is fantastic. He makes Hal both sympathetic and hilarious, never giving in to self-pity but, in a refreshing take, not above the occasional scream (or cheer). Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Honest and surprisingly lucid at its core. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: The merits of Rocket Science are endlessly debatable, and this is nothing to sneeze at. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Borrowing from too many movies to count, Rocket Science botches that brew in an unwieldy slew of adolescent-angst cliches. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Overall the movie coasts on quirkiness. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Buoyed by a script rife with poetry, a handful of dynamic performances and Eef Barzelay's near-perfect score, Rocket Science mildly shames the potty-mouthed Superbad. And I liked Superbad. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Rocket Science flies beyond the standard teen preoccupations, moving into territory that combines humor and eccentricity with fragile hope and ambition, making for a film that embraces every awkward angle of adolescence. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Why filter such a personal story through the attitudinal tics of Wes Anderson and Napoleon Dynamite, especially if you're going to do it with about one-third the skill? Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Rocket Science is not a revelation on the lines of Thompson's Spellbound, one of the great convergences of luck and the ability to make the most of it. But it does suggest that Blitz and Thompson have futures worth investing in. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Blitz's one-man revenge of the nerds continues with this narrative-feature debut, a smartypants comedy about a kid with a lot going on inside and a sadly undependable mouthpiece with which to let it out. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The thing the film lacks -- besides originality -- is a character arc that keeps the audience interested. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: A quirky comedy-drama that gets the bulk of its humor from the well-placed non sequitur. It never seems to be going where you think it is, and that includes its oddly endearing dialogue. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: This summer's designated Sundance crowd-pleaser, Rocket Science, is a quirkily disarming high-school comedy that calculatingly follows in the footsteps of Napoleon Dynamite, Election and Rushmore. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Blitz captures the melancholy, the rage, the wackiness and drama of adolescence, and he gets winning performances out of his young stars. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The problem with Rocket Science is that the character at the center of the drama isn't very energetic or, truth be told, interesting. This makes it difficult at times to remain engaged in the unfolding tale. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It may gross as little as Welcome to the Dollhouse or as much as Clueless, but whichever it does, it's in the same league. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Self-consciously quirky on the outside, this gentle teenage fable has an affecting, openhearted core. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A strong contender to become a student classic. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Darker than Little Miss Sunshine, tougher than Napoleon Dynamite, Rocket Science asserts a claim to cult-movie status that's hard to argue with. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: A smart, funny, unpredictable film...a more accurate reflection of high-school life than is usually portrayed. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: [Director] Blitz has succumbed to that most pernicious of Sundance afflictions: pandemic quirkiness. Read more
Mark Holcomb, Time Out: Blitz gets too much mileage out of a pair of kooky (or kookily) Korean neighbors, but even that's mitigated by his unapologetic affection for the movie's cast of misfits, all of whom are somehow beautiful in their irredeemable f---ed-upness. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: There's a lovely, fragile movie here; if only Blitz had had the faith to let it stand on its own two feet. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: This unusually voluble comedy is as eloquent about love, self-realization and adolescent angst as its protagonist is endearingly tongue-tied. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Rocket Science not only feels our collective pain, it makes us laugh wickedly at the memories. Read more
Jen Chaney, Washington Post: Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz brings wit and pathos to the story of a compulsive stutterer. Read more