Easy A (2010)

All Critics (177) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (153) | Rotten (26) | DVD (8)

Stone gives a terrific performance, her knowing drawl implying intellect and indifference with underlying warmth.

October 20, 2010 Full Review

Anna Smith

Time Out

Top Critic

As for Emma Stone, she didn't have to win me over. She conquered me from the first A.

September 21, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Easy A belongs in the company of Election, Heathers, and Mean Girls -- all motion pictures that have outlived their theatrical lives because they have unique voices and use them to say something.

September 19, 2010 Full Review

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Any movie that quotes Mark Twain, excerpts John Hughes and employs a singeing British cussword normally unheard in PG-13 high school comedies - that's all right, too. More than all right. Easy A might not ace it, but it scores a solid B.

September 17, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

An extremely witty, inventive, sweet and perceptive coming-out party for Emma Stone.

September 17, 2010 Full Review

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

A gem of a turn by Emma Stone as high school student Olive Penderghast makes this tale of a girl, gossip and independence a smart and self-aware hoot in the tradition of the teen flicks of the 1980s.

September 17, 2010 Full Review

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

What we get is a surprisingly funny film that has some charm to it, which is not something you hear applied to comedies all that often.

September 23, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

This is the film where Stone really established herself not only as a star but as an engaging and charismatic actress

August 30, 2011 Full Review

James Luxford

The National

A star-making performance by Emma Stone centers this humorous look at rumor mongering and the modern high school experience.

August 15, 2011 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Stone has a glittering career as a leading lady ahead of her.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Ben Rawson-Jones

Digital Spy

A "B" for effort and "C+" for execution.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

It does get by on lively energy, a creativity in its writing, and a star turn by Stone.

March 21, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

There's no reliance on gross out moments to sustain interest and it's genuinely funny with a lively script and a supporting cast of excellent adults.

March 12, 2011 Full Review

Mike Barnard

Future Movies UK

Easy A passes due to Stone's star turn and a knowing screenplay that needed a little more bravery to elevate it to a top achievement.

March 9, 2011 Full Review

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Emma Stone gets her best role to date in Easy A, a smart high-school comedy that recalls Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You in its witty contemporary spin to a literary classic.

March 7, 2011 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Si la película no es una pérdida de tiempo es, en primer lugar, gracias al talento cómico de Emma Stone y a una serie de referencias a la cultura pop capaces de generar empatía en el espectador.

January 24, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

One of the most smug and obnoxiously self-aware films I've ever seen...

January 17, 2011 Full Review | Comments (20)

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

feminist variation on a literary classic which triumphantly announces that in the 21st Century it's a woman's prerogative to be the town tramp if she darn well wants to.

January 1, 2011 Full Review

Kam Williams

TheLoop21.com

With whip-smart dialog and an interesting premise, along with homages to the legendary John Hughes (who would be proud of this film), this high school sex comedy is way above average for this lowly movie genre.

December 24, 2010 Full Review

Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

Ungainly but fleet, generous and, in between quips, alert to youthful discovery

December 15, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

"At the screening I was at, a youngish chap slouching next to me asked his friend: 'remind me why we're watching this'. 'For the girls,' was the reply. For Emma Stone, to be precise.

December 2, 2010 Full Review

Andrew Hedley

Flicks.co.nz

Stone elevates the material to the near sublime in its best moments.

November 29, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

A high-school comedy that comes on both sassy and cute.

October 29, 2010 Full Review

Sukhdev Sandhu

Daily Telegraph

The set-up is ridiculous, but the overall message about self-respect is reassuringly old-fashioned -- that it's always better for people to decide for themselves who they want to be.

October 27, 2010 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Post

• 1. Mrs. Griffith: Here you go. I just don't want this *thing* you're going through to define your life. Olive, do what you got to do; let your freak flab fly. Just make sure you have an exit strategy.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Dill: Is everything alright? It sounds like you're having sex in here; which I know can't be true due to the fact that you have a homosexual boyfriend.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Gossipy Girl: Oh my God, did you hear that Brandon ran away from home? Yeah. Totally. He left his parents a note that said: 'Eff you, I'm gay.'And then he skipped town with a big, hulking black guy!
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Dill: I'd take a bullet for you, you know that. Right between the eyes. I would slit my throat rather than say something to someone that you didn't want me to say!
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Olive Penderghast: I'm swell, guy-I've-never-laid-eyes-on-before. Thanks for asking.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Rhiannon: No, no! Not that one. The one where you got suspended for calling Nina Howell a dick and punched her in the left tit.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)

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