All the Boys Love Mandy Lane Reviews
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Too good to abandon, but not some "lost classic" either.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Top CriticIt's a time trip worth taking, with moody lensing and a suspenseful script (by Jacob Forman) that offers more than just the usual bloodbath.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
CinemaBlend.com
Levine's skills can't completely transform what is a severely underwhelming script.
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| Original Score: 2/5
We Got This Covered
If all the boys really do love Mandy Lane, I must be the exception.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Inside Horror
A head-shaker of a twist undoes all the good built up in the beginning.
The Dissolve
However smart its conceit or inviting its photography and music cues, the film is still about dumb, vulgar, witless teenagers being led to the slaughter.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
St. Paul Pioneer Press
One problem with "Mandy Lane's" attempt to poke fun at horror conventions is that it doesn't execute them well, which puts it in the position of trying to lampoon movies that are better than it is.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Here's a case where the backstory is more interesting than the movie.
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| Original Score: C
PopMatters
While Levine employs a look that recalls the exploitation efforts circa a '70s drive-in, he doesn't have the same grasp on said material's button pushing provocation.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
It makes 88 minutes seem like a lifetime.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Digital Spy
The boys may well love Mandy Lane, but cinemagoers are best advised to stay well away from her and the shockingly abysmal film that bears her name.
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| Original Score: 1/5
BrianOrndorf.com
Cluttered with obnoxious CW-scented teen characterizations, cartoonish parades of clumsy adolescent lust, and fruitless stabs of suspense, Lane is a rotten idea all around.
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| Original Score: D
FilmJerk.com
Dumb kids doing dumb things for dumb reasons.
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| Original Score: F
Guardian [UK]
As it is, Mandy Lane feels bogus and compromised: an unreconstructed horror romp in the guise of a nerdish intellectual.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Reel.com
So self-conscious that the movie feels like a feature length music video that's too busy admiring itself it the mirror to make any sense.
| Original Score: 1/4
DustinPutman.com
One of the more memorable teen-oriented horror movies of the last few years. As much a comment on the objectification of women as it is a grimy, violent, enthralling slasher pic.
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| Original Score: 3/4
eFilmCritic.com
A rather dull meat-and-potatoes slasher film front-loaded with lots of tedium where character development used to go.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ESplatter
The film is pretty good, but suffers a little bit from serious-itis.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cinema Crazed
Think of it as "There's Something About Mary" with a twist of "Friday the 13th"...
Film Threat
Mandy Lane isn't a masterpiece by any definition, but it is a fine and well crafted piece of work that a lot of care and attention to detail was put into.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
