20 June 2010

Tenure (2009)

Hollywood representations of academic life tend to be incredibly off base and, as such, sometimes hilarious to those of us "in the business." That’s what I was hoping for with Tenure.

What I got was a flat third-rate knock off of Alexander Payne’s funny-meets-sweet formula. Not that I imagined that Luke Wilson would suddenly figure out how to carry a movie. But with this lifeless script he didn’t even have a chance.