Heathers Reviews
Common Sense Media
After Columbine, this dark comedy isn't as funny.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticHeathers locates the emotional totalitarianism lurking in a prom queen's heart.
A super-smart black comedy about high school politics and teenage suicide that showcases a host of promising young talents.
Bangitout.com
Heathers, with all its flagrant masochism and violence, is a throwback to a more innocent time, where such films could be made and still be deemed over the top fantasy.
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| Original Score: 3/4
DVD Review
... the film paints high school as a veritable hell where the only way to alleviate suffering is by making others suffer more.
Two decades later, Heathers is so on the money, with its vague but unmistakable parallels to several school shootings, that it could never be made today.
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| Original Score: 4/4
BrianOrndorf.com
So grab your croquet mallet, load up on "Ich luge" bullets, and crank up the Big Fun: Heathers is a motion picture that continues to impress and disturb, even 20 years after release.
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| Original Score: A
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Dark, cynical, but deliciously funny, Heathersis a fascinating look not just at high school but at the way we look at high school.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
A super-smart black comedy about high school politics and teenage suicide that showcases a host of promising young talents.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Lehmann's audacious feature debute transforms teen suicide into a wild and mean satire with a giddy tone. Good year for indies: The movie premiered at Sundance in 1989, along with sex, lies and videotape, thus heralding Gen-X Cinema.
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| Original Score: B+
The film uses an intimate knowledge of teen-movie clichés to subvert their debased values from the inside.
Film Threat
An amazing black satire filled with vicious biting words that snap like firecrackers.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Empire Magazine
Scathing and hilarious.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Kansas City Kansan
Viciously delicious cult classic, flip side of "The Breakfast Club."
| Original Score: 4/5
Combustible Celluloid
Director Michael Lehmann and writer Daniel Waters keep things dark and tasty, and the dialogue and high school politics still resonate with a sharp sting.
