Today Skyfall Trailer! 70% 53 BOX OFFICE BEAT DOWN: Marvel's The Avengers Wins Again with $55 M... 69% 33 Skyfall 44% 10 Skyfall: Trailer 44% 0

This Week The Dark Knight Rises 99% 192 Marvel's The Avengers 71% 142 The Amazing Spider-Man 46% 88 Prometheus 38% 38

On the Line: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

19%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

« previous
1
2
next »
«
»

Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

On the Line would like to be Serendipity for the Oxy-and-Skechers set, but it feels more like the worst movie Michael J. Fox never made.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

70

At least it isn't as condescending or transparently synthetic as most niche-marketed daydreams for the high-school and junior-high set.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

As teenybopper idol movies go, it's a few steps up from Spice World.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Richard Harrington Washington Post (Top Critic)

70

Harmless romantic and musical hijinks abound, and sentimentality prevails.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

In the end, it's much ado about not very much, certainly not enough to catapult Bass into a film career, but probably enough to satisfy 'N Sync fans.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Ed Park Village Voice (Top Critic)

Less a romance than a feature-length plug for 'N Sync and its personalities.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Louis B. Parks Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

On a whole, the movie stays as blandly inoffensive (albeit sometimes annoying) as possible.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Tom Maurstad Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

The lack of resonant or even interesting characters is matched by the toothless script and lifeless direction.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

25

An agonizingly creaky movie that laboriously plods through a plot so contrived that the only thing real about it is its length.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

Certainly, you could find far more unpleasant ways to while away 85 minutes.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

0

More 'it stinks' than 'NSYNC.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

It doesn't provide enough drama or comedy or romance to make it appeal to anyone other than the 'N Sync faithful.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

An innocuous romantic comedy about missed connections, like Serendipity for people who can't vote yet.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Dull story, some vulgar humor in Lance Bass romance.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Frank Ochieng Movie Eye

38

This movie is so loopy and simplistic, you question the inspiration behind such a sappy farce.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jon Niccum Lawrence Journal-World

38

For his character being such a die-hard Cubs fan, [Lance] Bass throws a baseball like an 8-year-old girl.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

63

Plays like a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie without Freddie Prinze Jr. And wouldn't you know, that turns out to be a good thing.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile

Let's put it this way - there are bad movies, really bad movies, and there's On the Line.
Full Review » 10 years ago
David Noh Film Journal International

The film delivers on its admittedly modest mission -- to painlessly effect a pop star's transition to movie actor -- despite being not very subtle.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Bruce Deachman Ottawa Citizen

Things get more and more saccharine just about every time anyone opens their mouth.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review

20

If any of these characters had even a double-digit IQ, there'd be no movie.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews

38

With wide-eyed innocence and without a visible smidgen of acting talent, Bass smiles his way through the movie.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Tony Toscano Talking Pictures (U.S.)

50

Lance Bass in his debut performance overdoses the audience with too much wide-eyed innocence and enthusiasm.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jim Chastain Norman Transcript

34

From the disgruntled parent/movie critic's point of view, we begin and end with the understanding that this is an eighty-minute long commercial for ten-year old girls.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

0

Abominably written, directed and acted...wretched from first stop to last.
Full Review » 11 years ago