 Film critics apparently had one of their better weeks at screenings this week. With four films opening -- two of them in wide release -- they had mostly praise for all but one of them. Topping the list was School of Rock, which many reviewers are forecasting will finally make Jack Black a big comedy star. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post begins his review of the movie this way: "All hail Jack Black, who finally goes to the head of the class in School of Rock, a hip and consistently hilarious family comedy." John Anderson in Newsday calls School of Rock "easily the funniest film of the year" and says that for Black, it represents "a case of an unhinged talent finding its best vehicle." Eleanor Ringel-Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution predicts that "The School of Rock is going to surprise a lot of people. So is Black. As intoxicating as the whiskey whose name he shares, he blasts off the screen with Dionysian energy and one-of-a-kind style and humor." Roger Ebert chides the motion picture ratings board for tagging the film with a PG-13 rating, insisting that it's a "perfect" family film. "Here is a movie that proves you can make a family film that's alive and well-acted and smart and perceptive and funny -- and that rocks," he writes. |
