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Wackness, The (2008) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Wackness, The (2008) a score of 2.5000 out of 4

based on (68) reviews

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Excellent

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Very Good

(38)

Good

(20)

Fair

(4)

Poor

(1)

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Reel.com

Shrouded in the haze of a Manhattan summer circa 1994 and Giuliani's great push for a whitewashed New York, Jonathan Levine's very entertaining The Wackness takes the coming-of-age story and attempts to give it a little history....read the complete Wackness, The (2008) review at Reel.com

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USA Today (Claudia Puig)

Funny and poignant, The Wackness is one of the better coming-of-age films to hit theaters in a while....read the complete Wackness, The (2008) review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)

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Sacramento News & Review (Jonathan Kiefer)

See, it has potential, right? Writer-director Jonathan Levine’s feature debut, The Wackness, might have been quite original and outrageous, had it decided to play itself out with tabloid-headline abandon. Or to deliver cinema’s definitive and long...read the complete Wackness, The (2008) review at Sacramento News & Review (Jonathan Kiefer)

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PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)

“I’m havin’ trouble getting’ laid,” sighs Luke (Josh Peck). His therapist sighs too, “That’s a common...read the complete Wackness, The (2008) review at PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)