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60

Metascore

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80
Los Angeles Times
An easygoing and amusing romantic confection.
80
Drew Barrymore has figured out what works, and what works for Drew Barrymore is this: Cinderella stories.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie's screenplay is contrived and not blindingly original, but Barrymore illuminates it with sunniness, and creates a lovable character
75
Where Never Been Kissed succeeds is in its unabashed refusal to stoop to choosing sides in the high-school hipness war.
63
Christian Science Monitor
The best things about Never Been Kissed are its colorful camera work and funny dialogue.
60
So hopelessly cartoonish and wrongheaded in its details that there's not even a semblance of reality.
60
Rolling Stone
Toothless satire relatively inoffensive and relentlessly mediocre.
50
Some so-so movies are just easy to be around, and this is one of them.
50
Predictable, slightly painful and as embarrassing as all get-out.
25
Entertainment Weekly
Labored miscalculation of a teen-trend comedy.

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