My First Mister (2001) Rank 2 Reviews

Los Angeles Times (Kevin Thomas)

Offers the curious experience of being able to believe in a screen full of first-rate actors yet not believe in anything that's happening to the people they're playing. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kevin Thomas)

Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)

Boxoffice Magazine

Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)

TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)

Scene after scene suddenly rings with a resounding falseness [in the second half]. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)

Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)

A small movie full of good intentions and wildly erratic execution. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)

Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)

The calculated sappiness does succeed in provoking a heightened reaction--but resentment and disgust is surely not what they had in mind. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)

Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)

Tilts too steeply into movie-disease-of-the-week territory. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)

Film Threat (Michael Dequina)

Lahti's feature directorial debut plays like a watered-down variation ("Ghost World") -- that is, until the final third, when the film not only deviates but flat out derails. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Film Threat (Michael Dequina)

Chicago Reader (Ronnie Scheib)

A bathetic TV-movie-type "learning experience" that provides about as much insight into teenagers as 40s westerns did into Indians--it's all in the costumes and customs. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Chicago Reader (Ronnie Scheib)

DigitalVD.de (Tino Hahn)

SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)

One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)

USA TODAY

The harder this film tries to be quirky and edgy, the more it feels like a run-of-the mill TV movie. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at USA TODAY

Austin Chronicle (Russell Smith)

The splendid performance by Sobieski, who ends her long run as industry-mag buzz princess and arrives as a full-fledged star. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Austin Chronicle (Russell Smith)

Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)

Sobieski manages to make Jennifer's inevitable transformation more than a little bittersweet. Apparently even clichés click sometimes. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)

Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)

Brooks guards the movie from overheating in a surfeit of warmedy. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)

By the film's interminable, unforgivably embarrassing third act it sinks in a sticky swamp of sentimentality. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)

Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)

Brooks guards the movie from overheating in a surfeit of warmedy. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)

Variety (Todd McCarthy)

Lahti's feature directorial debut walks an innocuous middle line between the story's maudlin possibilities and its meaningful potential. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)

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New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)

Drifts from goofy situation comedy to pop culture parody to a last-act load of sentiment that would sink a trash barge. ...read the complete My First Mister movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)

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