 Charlie Bartlett, starring Anton Yelchin, is getting vastly mixed reviews. The title character finds popularity at his high school by taking over a stall in the boy's room and dispensing advice and Ritalin that he has been prescribed for ADD. Chris Kaltenbach in the Baltimore Sun begins his review by observing: "Charlie Bartlett the character is an insufferably self-absorbed, irredeemably opportunistic teen philistine who'll do anything to maintain his popularity. If you want to spend 97 minutes watching his adventures, then by all means, have at it. Me? I'd pass." On the other hand, Wesley Morris comments in the Boston Globe: "It takes a minute for Charlie Bartlett to distinguish itself from the movies and books it appears to be ripping off. But once it does, the movie transforms into an exuberant, unexpectedly smart comedy about the fraught give-and-take between kids and grown-ups." Among the reviewers, there's not much middle-ground. |
