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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonLos Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonJohnny Severin and Nicholas David Brandt's otherwise clever and original script takes an unexpected turn at nearly every intersection, resulting in a funny and big-hearted coming-of-age romance.
- 50VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasWinning performances by a number of fresh-faced newcomers are almost but not quite enough to recommend The Secret Lives of Dorks, a fitfully amusing, more often shrill and overstated teen comedy that, like its dweeby protagonist, tries too hard to impress.
- 42The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloIt’s arguable that the jocks and cheerleaders are this movie’s true heroes, without whom those pathetic dorks would never be able to find one another.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckA formulaic comedy that displays as much subtlety as its title.
- 40The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayIt has a good heart and a good cast, mixing Hollywood veterans with some of today’s better young TV stars. But the movie is strenuously, exhaustingly unfunny, in a way that makes its phoniness harder to bear.
- 30Village VoiceChris PackhamVillage VoiceChris PackhamThe Secret Lives of Dorks, starring Jim Belushi, is, well, the Jim Belushi of high-school romantic comedies: indifferent, kind of exhausted.
- 0The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThere’s no way to prepare yourself for how awful The Secret Lives of Dorks is.