Raise Your Voice: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 95 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

34

[Duff] makes me long for the comparatively Dostoyevskian depths of Sandra Dee.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Anita Gates New York Times (Top Critic)

60

Ms. Duff's screen presence and the film's infectious high spirits will make this piece of fluff appealing to young moviegoers without conveying any sinister messages.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

38

Even the kindest reaction to Raise My Voice is likely to be 'shut your face.'
Full Review » 8 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

This is for Duff's already committed audiences, which presumably consist of the young, the innocent and the commercially acquisitive.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

The movie is the most fun kind of terrible.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Laura Sinagra Village Voice (Top Critic)

All we can do is marvel at how the mighty -- Northern Exposure hottie John Corbett (as a weirdly flirty music teacher) and Risky Business babe Rebecca De Mornay (as Duff's frisky aunt) -- have fallen.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

75

Not since the students spilled out onto the streets in Fame has musical performance been so infectious a part of coming of age.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

25

A miserable waste of a harebrained script fleshed out with mediocre performances by a flailing cast.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jane Sumner Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

50

It's a sweet and touching West Coast Fame, though it lacks that 1980 musical's manic energy and excitement.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

25

Her dad was right about one thing. Something terrible did happen to her in Los Angeles. She made this movie.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

Yes, parents surely want a family film they can take their young daughters to -- but not one so bland and colorless.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

A corny, wading-pool- deep tale about overcoming grief and enjoying a rooftop view of downtown L.A. with a cute English guy with a hedgehog coif.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

67

What Hilary Duff will do when she grows up is anybody's guess, but for now she's the Duffinator, and things could be a lot worse.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Randy Cordova Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

20

Bad in so many departments that pointing out the flaws is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Lael Loewenstein Variety (Top Critic)

It's nowhere near as exhilarating as Fame or even Flashdance, and Terri's performance skills are less awe-inspiring than the plot requires.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

25

Overlong, blandly soporific movie.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

An earnest and eager Fame for the young and the tin-eared.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Susan Walker Toronto Star (Top Critic)

60

The music in Raise Your Voice ... manages to bring home what the uninspired script doesn't: Something in you dies if you don't express your musical talent.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Leah McLaren Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

25

The film suffers from a syndrome I'll call the Pop Princess's New Clothes. Hilary can't really sing, and neither can Terri, so you can't help but wonder, what's the big whoop?
Full Review » 8 years ago
Luke Sader Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

It resembles an episode of TV's Saved by the Bell, with a bigger budget and an underlying religious bent.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

30

The filmmakers make a big show of striving for sincerity and substance, but they so load the dice that their movie is heavy-going from start to finish.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

40

Made for tween girls.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

Full Review » 3 years ago
Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile

Full Review » 4 years ago
Mark Halverson Sacramento News & Review

40

Full Review » 4 years ago