I.Q.

Name: I.Q.
Director: Fred Schepisi
Released: 1994

3.00

Synopsis

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

90
The New York Times
The nice thing about I.Q. is that its intelligence doesn't stop at the title. In a romantic comedy that mingles brilliant physicists with auto mechanics, everybody manages to seem smart.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
I.Q. is a romantic comedy with its heart in the right place, and all of the other pieces distributed correctly, too.
80
Variety
A paean to movies past, I.Q. recalls the style and attitude of a bygone era while retaining a contemporary spirit and polish. The material provides Robbins with the kind of likable, charismatic role that gained him early recognition.
80
Washington Post
IQ, the new romantic comedy with Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins, is disarming piffle—frothy, sweet and nearly irresistible.
60
Empire
Relatively speaking it's nonsense, but very cute.
60
Chicago Reader
If you like Ryan and Robbins as much as I do, you'll probably feel indulgent and even charmed in spots; if you don't, you'll probably run screaming out of the theater.
50
Entertainment Weekly
I.Q. is easy enough to sit through, but it’s all surface come-on-the romantic-comedy equivalent of a shallow young Hollywood star who puts on fake glasses so that it will look like he, too, has brains.
50
Los Angeles Times
Matthau has the best role, but Robbins and Ryan are finally simply too good for their material, which is not nearly inspired enough to do justice to their talent.