A comedy directed by Jared Hess
Napoleon Dynamite

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Numerical average of these graded scores: 65.0 (out of 100)
  Average score is 2.5 stars out of 4, or a "B-"

RottenTomatoes.com freshness score: 71.1%
  135 reviews counted: 96 positive; 39 negative

[In the table below, the column labeled "RT.c" shows a plus or minus sign, indicating whether the RottenTomatoes.com website rated the review mainly positive (+) or negative (-). Reviews with nothing in the "RT.c" column (that is, they have no plus or minus by them, were not catalogued by the RottenTomatoes.com website, and are not included in the RottenTomatoes.com score.]

SourceReview AuthorRT.cGradeGrade
as #
Moviepie.com Rachel 8/8 100
Reel.com Pam Grady + 4/4 100
Entertainment Insiders Jonathan W. Hickman 4/4 100
Grapevine Culture Jessica Hundley 4/4 100
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Hallie Woodward A 100
The Trades Max Braden A 100
Reviewguy Online Sean Chandler 10/10 100
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) Audrey Rock-Richardson + A- 92
Journal News (Westchester, NY) Diane Vadino + A- 92
Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) David Lee Simmons + A- 92
EricDSnider.com Eric D. Snider + A- 92
filethirteen.com Lodger A- 92
Film Threat Eric Campos + 4.5/5 89
Movie Gurus Bill King 4.5/5 89
eFilmCritic.com Scott Weinberg + 4.5/5 89
Salt Lake Tribune Sean Means + 3.5/4 88
eFilmCritic.com Erik Childress + 3.5/4 88
The Aisle Seat Mike McGranaghan + 3.5/4 88
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Linda Cook + 3.5/4 88
Arizona Daily Star Phil Villarreal + 3.5/4 88
St. Paul Pioneer Press Chris Hewitt + 3.5/4 88
Movie Parables Michael Elliott + 3.5/4 88
TheMovieBoy.com Dustin Putman + 3.5/4 88
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker + B+ 84
Town Talk (Alexandria, LA) Andrew Griffin + B+ 84
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Philip Martin + B+ 84
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Nell Minow + B+ 84
Eclipse Magazine Sean O'Connell + B+ 84
Lee's Movie Info Lee Tistaert + B+ 84
FilmJerk.com Dean Carrano B+ 84
Film Fever B+ 84
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Jack Garner + 8/10 80
Cranky Critic Chuck Schwartz + 8/10 80
Guess the Gross Kernan 8/10 80
Des Moines Register Jeffrey Bruner + 4/5 78
Arizona Republic Bill Muller + 4/5 78
Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore + 4/5 78
eFilmCritic.com Brian Mckay + 4/5 78
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Ken Hanke + 4/5 78
Spirituality and Health Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat + 4/5 78
Killer Movie Reviews Andrea Chase + 4/5 78
filmcritic.com Chris Barsanti + 4/5 78
MovieWeb B. Alan Orange + 4/5 78
Christian Spotlight on the Movies Chris Monroe 4/5 78
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland Stan Urankar 4/5 78
Boston Globe Ty Burr + 3/4 75
New York Post Lou Lumenick + 3/4 75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt + 3/4 75
Boston Herald James Verniere + 3/4 75
Rolling Stone Peter Travers + 3/4 75
Los Angeles Daily News Glenn Whipp + 3/4 75
Seattle Times Tom Keogh + 3/4 75
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Duane Dudek + 3/4 75
Premiere Glenn Kenny 3/4 75
Sean the Movie Guy Sean McBride + 3/4 75
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) John Beifuss + 3/4 75
San Diego Union-Tribune David Elliott + 3/4 75
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Ed Blank + 3/4 75
Bucket Reviews Danny Baldwin + 3/4 75
Three Movie Buffs Patrick Nash + 3/4 75
ReelViews James Berardinelli + 3/4 75
Movie Habit Marty Mapes + 3/4 75
Hartford Courant Deborah Hornblow + 3/4 75
Movie Eye Frank Ochieng + 3/4 75
SPLICEDWire Rob Blackwelder + 3/4 75
Kalamazoo Gazette James Sanford + 3/4 75
Kinnopio's Movie Reviews Craig Roush + 3/4 75
DVDFuture.com R. L. Shaffer 3/4 75
Reeling Reviews Laura Clifford + B 75
Cinema Source Alysa Salzberg + B 75
Oregonian Karen Karbo + B 75
Compuserve Harvey S. Karten + B 75
Nick's Flick Picks Nick Davis + B 75
Laramie Movie Scope Robert Roten + B 75
Apollo Guide Jamie Gillies + 75/100 75
ChildCare Action Project 71/100 71
Movie-Vault.com Aaron West 7/10 70
ComingSoon.net Edward Douglas 7/10 70
Reeling Reviews Robin Clifford + B- 67
Dallas Morning News Chris Vognar + B- 67
E! Online + B- 67
Grading the Movies Kerry Bennett + B- 67
Denver Rocky Mountain News Robert Denerstein + B- 67
Ozus' World Movie Reviews Dennis Schwartz + B- 67
Mixed Reviews Gabriel Shanks - B- 67
Movie View Ryan Cracknell + 3.5/5 67
TV Guide's Movie Guide Ken Fox + 3.5/5 67
IGN FilmForce Spence D. + 3.5/5 67
Boxoffice Magazine Annlee Ellingson + 3.5/5 67
Toronto Sun / Jam! Movies Derek Tse + 3.5/5 67
Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman + 3.5/5 67
Newsday Gene Seymour + 2.5/4 63
Washington Times Christian Toto + 2.5/4 63
Globe and Mail Liam Lacey + 2.5/4 63
San Jose Mercury News Glenn Lovell + 2.5/4 63
Creative Loafing Matt Brunson + 2.5/4 63
Denver Post Lisa Kennedy + 2.5/4 63
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez + 2.5/4 63
USA Today Mike Clark - 2.5/4 63
Deseret News Jeff Vice - 2.5/4 63
Latino Review 2.5/4 63
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Phoebe Flowers - 2.5/4 63
Lowell Sun Austin O'Connor - 2.5/4 63
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) Jonathan R. Perry - 2.5/4 63
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman - 2.5/4 63
www.susangranger.com Susan Granger + 6/10 60
Supercala.com John Venable - 6/10 60
Detroit News Tom Long + C+ 59
Film Blather Eugene Novikov - C+ 59
New York Times A.O. Scott + 3/5 56
Providence Journal Michael Janusonis + 3/5 56
Las Vegas Weekly Josh Bell + 3/5 56
Projectionist Sean Caszatt + 3/5 56
Cinerina Karina Montgomery + 3/5 56
Goatdog's Movie Reviews Michael W. Phillips, Jr. + 3/5 56
ViewLondon Matthew Turner + 3/5 56
Toronto Star Peter Howell + 3/5 56
La Presse, Montreal Aleksi K. Lepage + 3/5 56
iScriptdb Movie Reviews The Spectator 3/5 56
About.com Jurgen Fauth + 3/5 56
CultureDose.net Dainon Moody + 3/5 56
cinemaobsession.com Jeff Otto - 3/5 56
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow - 2/4 50
Film Freak Central Walter Chaw - 2/4 50
San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer - 2/4 50
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey - 2/4 50
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington - 2/4 50
In the Dark / FilmFreak.be Jonathan Richards 2/4 50
Panorama Louis-Jerome Cloutier - 5/10 50
Empire Movies Brendan Cullin - 5/10 50
JoBlo's Movie Emporium JoBlo - 5/10 50
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Scott Von Doviak - C 50
Philadelphia Weekly Sean Burns - C- 42
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum - C- 42
CineMe Daniel Meyer - C- 42
JackieKCooper.com Jackie K. Cooper - 4/10 40
TheMovieChicks.com Cherryl Dawson, Leigh Ann Palone - 2/5 34
CinemaBlend.com Joshua Tyler - 2.5/5 45
Netflix James Rocchi - 2/5 34
Palo Alto Weekly Jeanne Aufmuth - 1/4 25
Detroit Free Press Terry Lawson - 1/4 25
Steve Rhodes' Internet Reviews Steve Rhodes - 1/4 25
WaffleMovies.com Willie Waffle - 1/4 25
Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel Edwin Jahiel - 1/4 25
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert - 1.5/4 38
Zap2it.com Vanessa Sibbald - 1.5/4 38
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson 1.5/4 38
One Guy's Opinion Frank Swietek - D+ 34
Shadows on the Wall Rich Cline - 1.5/5 23
Lobo Howls Judith Wolfe 2/10 20
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust - 1/5 12
Film Snobs Jimmy O - 1/5 12
MovieFreak.com Dylan Grant 1/5 12
hybridmagazine.com Cole Sowell 1/5 12
Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez - 0.5/4 13
Minneapolis Star Tribune Jeff Strickler - 0.5/4 13
rec.arts.movies.reviews Andy Keast - 0.5/4 13
FilmStew.com Larry Carroll - F 0



The following reviews did not include a "grade," but they were given a "fresh" or "rotten" rating (+ or -) by RottenTomatoes.com:

SourceReview AuthorRT.c
Ebert & Roeper: At The Movies Richard Roeper +
Village Voice Michael Atkinson +
Washington Post Desson Thomson +
Washington Post Stephen Hunter +
Slate David Edelstein +
Kansas City Star Robert W. Butler +
FilmsInReview.com Victoria Alexander +
Flick Filosopher MaryAnn Johanson +
culturevulture.net Jesse Paddock +
San Diego Metropolitan Jean Lowerison +
Orlando Weekly Steve Schneider +
Portland Tribune Dawn Taylor +
Newark Star-Ledger Lisa Rose +
Philadelphia Daily News Gary Thompson +
Richmond.com Mike Ward +
Blogcritics.org Alan Dale +
LYTRules.com Luke Y. Thompson +
ReelTalk Movie Reviews Betty Jo Tucker +
Low IQ Canadian Martin Scribbs +
L.A. Weekly Scott Foundas -
Variety Todd McCarthy -
Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt -
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Mark Palermo -



The following reviews did not have a number or letter rating, nor were they catalogued by the RottenTomatoes.com website:
SourceReviewerpos/neg
Film Monthly Alexander Rojas pos
Soundwaves Cinema Dennis Willis pos
Boston Phoenix Peter Keough pos
Syracuse New Times Bill DeLapp
Georgia Straight Ken Eisner
Movies 101 Robert Glatzer
Travis Hoover's Days of Thunder Travis Hoover
Dallas Observer Melissa Levine
Plugged In Adam R. Holz
Frank's Reel Reviews Frank Wilkins
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Movie Magazine International Casey McCabe
WFAA-TV (Dallas, TX) Gary Cogill
Film Journal International Kevin Lally
CBC Radio One Montreal Genevieve Royer
SeattleMovieCritic.com Jeff Walls
kids-in-mind.com


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