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The Genius Club (2006)

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Reviews Counted:7

Fresh:1

Rotten:6

Average Rating:3.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: What if you had one night to solve the world's problems? For seven geniuses, they have no choice. A terrorist culls together a scientist, a seminary student, a pro baseball player, a professor, a... [More]

Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Tricia Helfer, Philip Moon, Paula Jai Parker

Director: Timothy A. Chey

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Reviews for The Genius Club

1 - 7 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)

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A laughable mess of pretentious rambling and spiritual shallowness... gloriously, stupendously, exceptionally awful.

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11/19/08

David Cornelius

DVDTalk.com

...plagued by uneven writing and acting ... but The Genius Club isn't a proselytizing tract or a preachment to the choir. It's an honest to gosh real movie.

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01/18/08

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Smart characters don't always mean smart movies, and The Genius Club is no exception.

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11/01/07

Justin Chang

Variety

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Most of the movie is surprisingly effective at feeding the audience a liberal critique of capitalism, cleverly disguised as a thriller.

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11/01/07

Luke Y. Thompson

L.A. Weekly

a low-budget wannabe thriller that's anything but smart.

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10/30/07

Norm Schrager

Filmcritic.com

A pretentious gabfest...When one of the characters opines toward the close, 'This has been a complete waste of time,' you'll be hard pressed not to nod in agreement.

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10/30/06

Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

The Genius Club is a stultifying, static movie about a group of people trapped in a dingy boardroom yelling at one another and their tormentor.

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10/27/06

Tom Maurstad

Dallas Morning News

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