Fast Times At Ridgemont High Reviews
Top CriticA jumbled but appealing teen-age comedy with something of a fresh perspective on the subject.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Spirituality and Practice
Fast Times at Ridgemont High explores adolescent energy with elan.
Nitrate Online
An engaging 80s time capsule and an important early film for Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe.
| Original Score: 3/5
Netflix
Fast Times has not endured the passage of time.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Montreal Film Journal
It's among the coolest high school films I've ever seen, and it's one of the most representative movies of the 80s.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Moviehole
Fast Times at Ridgemont High has really stood the test of time. Ridgemont will still have you reeling with laughter, and tapping your feet along to those eclectic pop classics.
Movie Metropolis
...largely prosaic, crude, stereotyped, and pointless.
| Original Score: 5/10
Q Network Film Desk
Penn has a huge presence in the film, and every whacked line he utters resonates with the sheer hilarity that he fully believes in what he says
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Austin Chronicle
The panoply of teen types and turmoils is dead-on accurate.
Filmcritic.com
The movie is sublimely funny. And interesting.
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| Original Score: 4/5
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Works well because we have the sense that, like Crowe, we are listening in.
Empire Magazine
What plot there is garnishes itself with an array of such like-minded sensibilities that you'd be hard pushed to find much in the way of fault.
