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(1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1   4/5 "For a film that has all the inner workings of a generic sports movie, Whip It somehow avoids being one."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 4.5/5 "Whip It! works...and does so sensationally. Apparently, movies can be fun. It just takes someone like Drew Barrymoore to figure out how."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B- "Tries to cram in as many plot points as possible to fill its belly with caloric melodrama. It's a diluted journey of feminine self-realization, better with bruises and teamwork than it is with pliable matters of the heart."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "What Whip It does make clear is that all girls are expected to perform, whether expectations are embodied by parents or audiences."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "...the stellar performances and Barrymore's obvious enthusiasm for the material ultimately proves instrumental in allowing the viewer to overlook the myriad of flaws."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/4 "Never less than sheer fun, Whip It enlivens Bliss' touching journey and makes roller derby seem so much cooler than boring old football or basketball."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B "Funny, agreeable, and lightly entertaining."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider 2.5/4 "Whip It is the kind of film that you can't quite recommend but certainly wouldn't begrudge other people for liking either."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress "A lively trifle"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B+ "An unexpected pleasure...goofily enjoyable."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "A spunky coming-of-age dramady about roller derby that boasts another stellar performance by Ellen Page."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "Built upon a mountain of clichés, the screenplay wallows in artificiality and, although some of the sports action sequences are well choreographed and have a ring of authenticity, nearly every scene away from the arena reeks of contrivance."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/5 "As completely conventional as it is entirely winning .. and it's kind of kick-ass, too."   Redbox   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy "There's poignant interaction between the generations, puppy-love lyricism, and just enough edginess to keep adolescents engaged."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 3/5 "I didn't love Whip It, but I found myself enjoying it, almost against my will."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 1.5/4 "Manages to make a sport about women on roller skates beating the crap out of each other tedious."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[W]orks within Hollywood conventions of storytelling to handily demonstrate that just because a tale is familiar doesn't mean it can't be fresh and funny and edgy, too..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B "Barrymore gently sells the niceness of it all. It turns out that roller girls just wanna have fun and that the sisterhood of the traveling skates is one big happy family."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 4/5 "As for Barrymore, while I hope and pray that she doesn't give up her day job anytime soon, her work on "Whip It" suggests that she could do so and make a go of it behind the cameras if she wanted."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 5/5 "Whip It, the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, is friendly and fun-loving and nurturing, as she seems to be."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D+ "...a bloated, unfocused debut that does not know what it wants to be."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 9/10 "As in most sports movies, the matches are really a means to an end, in this case the maturation of Bliss from a compliant but unhappy daughter to a young woman who knows her own mind."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh "[Drew] Barrymore... embraces the self-expression of this riot grrrl-style roller derby tale and fills the film with team spirit and high energy."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "Packs the same unfiltered jolts of grrrrrly-girl empowerment Barrymore likes to embrace in her acting gigs."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 8/10 "It's an effervescent, rough-and-tumble rivalry on wheels, celebrating friendship and camaraderie while artfully delineating the struggle within families to understand one another."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger  (1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1