Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Green demonstrates no control over his star, who dodders through the movie in a sleepy daze.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
The low-key, dialed-down acting that Green has elicited from the frequently hammy Pacino - on the heels of Nicolas Cage's sensitive turn in Green's Joe - establishes the filmmaker as the go-to sponsor for members of Overactors Anonymous.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : NPR
It moves at a clip, a sprightly relay race between a dozen or so mellifluous performers.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A movie that's made to be obsessed over, seen 50 times, quoted as devoutly as such sacred texts as "Heathers" and "Bring It On."

Name : Glenn Kenny / Alias : MSN Movies
.it never ends up being anything like a fully realized version of any of the movies it's lifting its jokes and/or tones from.

Name : Tasha Robinson / Alias : AV Club
The movie is far too aware of its influences, especially when it imitates Bring It On's silly "cheerocracy"-style slang with its own overextended series of aca-neologisms.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Not quite pitch perfect, but it's irresistible.

Name : Bruce Diones / Alias : New Yorker
Warblers win the day in this sweet-natured film (based on a swell behind-the-scenes book by Mickey Rapkin) about the life and loves of collegians from competing a-cappella groups.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
The throwaway lines in Kay Cannon's script are so many and so expertly deployed that you basically spend the whole movie digging through the trash.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
An enjoyably snarky campus romp that's both wildly nerdy and somewhat sexy.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
"Pitch Perfect" totally gets one critical fact: A cappella singing contests are both a little bit amazing and a little bit ridiculous. The tone that the film strikes is a perfect balance between the two extremes.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Richard Roeper.com
This is one of the strangest and also one of the more entertaining movies of the year.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Without the music, the movie might have been painful, but the songs, Auto-Tuned and processed as they are, generate a hooky bliss. They're the chewy center of this ultra-synthetic hard candy.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
[It] could have used a little more spontaneous spirit and a little less manufactured sass. What it has going for it, though, is an amiably enthusiastic cast.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : Associated Press
It's ridiculous and predictable but also just a ton of fun, so you may as well give up and give in to your inner musical theater geek.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
It's a twentysomething song-and-dance movie built around rival a cappella groups. That's more exciting than dueling string quartets, I suppose - but no, the quartets would be performing better material.

Name : Mary F. Pols / Alias : TIME Magazine
You leave it wanting to sing and dance.

Name : William Goss / Alias : Film.com
Far more often than not, Pitch Perfect lives up to its own title.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Belatedly riffing on the TV series "Glee" might have produced some sour notes, but "Pitch Perfect" finds just the right tone.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Though likable and energetic, the movie is so eager to put a finger on every pulse that it loses the rhythm.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
The very appealing cast (led by ingenue superstar Anna Kendrick) and an overall sense of buoyant silliness advances it to the top of the class.

Name : Laura Beck / Alias : Village Voice
The girls, for the most part, are genuinely funny, weird, real, and, most excitingly, confident.

Name : Connie Ogle / Alias : Miami Herald
If you're not grinning by the end of this light, funny crowd-pleaser, consider yourself tone deaf.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
"Pitch Perfect" doesn't take itself any more seriously than it has to, and has plenty of fun both sending up and celebrating its subject matter.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
To paraphrase one of the characters in the movie, it's A-Ca-Awesome.

Name : Amy Biancolli / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Pitch Perfect" is major key all the way, a blast of tuneful sugary cheer kicked up with enough tart humor to offset the glucose.

Name : Geoff Pevere / Alias : Globe and Mail
A let's-put-on-a-show story so steeped in backlot Hollywood convention it almost embarrasses itself, with the difference being it really doesn't care.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Luckily, the good outweighs the bad in this bright 'n' breezy comedy about competitive a cappella singing groups.

Name : Carrie Rickey / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
I smiled for the first half of the movie and started laughing hysterically when a supporting character hijacked it from its stars.

Name : Drew Hunt / Alias : Chicago Reader
The musical numbers, however, are quite good, if only because they're so disjointed from the narrative.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
As spirited and irresistible as the college a cappella craze it celebrates, Pitch Perfect is a cheeky delight.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
The spirited a cappella singing in Pitch Perfect makes a predictable, feather-light coming-of-age film irresistibly fun.

Name : Cath Clarke / Alias : Time Out
'30 Rock' and 'New Girl' writer Kay Cannon has created brilliant characters.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
Only occasionally funny and not at all illuminating about the rich world of a cappella singing.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out New York
This film could have done with a few more mouth beats and unlikely moments of extracurricular celebrity.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Pitch Perfect looks, sounds, and feels like pretty much every other movie that features a singing or dancing competition.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
What we have here is a not-very-funny college comedy for tweens, full of unappealing characters (and although the musical arrangements are fun, some truly unimaginative choreography).

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
I got a goofball kick out of Pitch Perfect. Anna Kendrick is terrific in this spoofy, sassy romp. And I have one word for Rebel Wilson - Wow!

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
What helps offset the predictable in this very predictable movie is a series of show-stopping numbers, so props to the folks who oversaw music and choreography. But the true saving grace is a few of the central players.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Cannon doesn't go in for rococo hipster badinage in the vein of Diablo Cody. She can pare down a joke to its essence .