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Spring Breakers (2013)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 160
Fresh: 105 | Rotten: 55

Spring Breakers blends stinging social commentary with bikini cheesecake and a bravura James Franco performance.

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 13

Spring Breakers blends stinging social commentary with bikini cheesecake and a bravura James Franco performance.

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Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez) have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun. A serendipitous encounter with rapper "Alien" (James Franco) promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new

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It's campy and comic at times, but Korine also gives the film a downbeat, melancholic edge, with voiceovers, pointed repetition of dialogue and images, and hallucinatory camera work, sound and editing.

April 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Neon bright and all raw energy, Spring Breakers is a pulsating paradox of a movie, both a tangerine dream and a cultural reality check, a pop artifact that simultaneously exploits and explores the shallowness of pop artifacts.

March 29, 2013 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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Korine's story is a searing indictment of today's hedonistic, nihilistic youth, and his script is loaded with sharp, telling dialogue that exposes the rotten moral cores of its characters.

March 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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The film stands, overall, as one of the director's richer provocations ...

March 25, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
New Yorker
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Once a year, St. Petersburg is awash with thoughtless, unpleasant people making poor decisions. This spring, Korine is one of them.

March 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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An authentically cracked expression of the crazy, conflicting signals bombarding today's teenagers.

March 22, 2013 Full Review Source: CNN.com
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A trippy, florescent whirl of boobs and bongs.

September 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Us Weekly
Us Weekly

I couldn't get past the feeling that this was basically the director's softcore material masquerading as a feature film

August 20, 2013 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures
7M Pictures

Often exploitative and completely gratuitous, it succeeds in also exploring the recklessness of youth...

July 9, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is rough around the edges, visually pleasing, experimental and a downright bizarre film, but one that's worthy of at least one viewing.

July 7, 2013 Full Review Source: We Got This Covered
We Got This Covered

A ridiculous, repetitive and empty drama.

June 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Big Hollywood
Big Hollywood

You're probably gonna hate Spring Breakers, but I bet you love it, too.

June 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Deadspin
Deadspin

If you can look beyond Harmony Korine's misogynistic, uncomfortably leering view of the women in his film, there is some stuff to enjoy, though the film is held back by an unfortunate lack of substance.

June 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire
Fan The Fire

"Spring Breakers" might engender multiple viewings and a cult status à la "Scarface." Korine, unfortunately, jumps the gun by frequently repeating lines of Franco's dialogue in voiceover, as if "Spring Breakers" already is on repeat.

May 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee

While films such as Spring Breakers should never be blamed for gun violence, they can be used to gauge just how much people truly care about such issues. And how quickly they are willing to forget.

May 17, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW

Director Korine obviously wants to make some profound comment about the debauchery of Floridian spring-breaking but he's sucked into the whole sleazy world head-first.

May 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Rip It Up

A simultaneous celebration and criticism of youth.

May 9, 2013 Full Review Source: Flicks.co.nz
Flicks.co.nz

In many ways, this trashy, dazzling but enigmatic film belongs to Franco's Alien, a wannabe gangsta who just doesn't have the guts or heart to be a cold-hearted thug.

May 8, 2013 Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia)
FILMINK (Australia)

The ideals of freedom, paradise and the American dream pulse in a neon coloured, bubble-gum scented descent into darkness

May 6, 2013 Full Review Source: The Popcorn Junkie
The Popcorn Junkie

Parents will look on with dismay; others will leave feeling bemused but thoroughly entertained.

May 5, 2013 Full Review Source: The Sun Herald
The Sun Herald

It's not exactly an exploitation film, and it's not exactly an art film, but it's also both at the same time. It's the type of experience that blows your mind but convinces you that nobody else on the planet is going to "get" it.

May 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

The message may be lost on those who only came for the bountiful breasts and booties... Spring Breakers is an immersive phantasmagoria; one of the funniest, strangest, prettiest, and flat out maddest films of the year.

April 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Quickflix
Quickflix

Most shocking of all is that while Spring Breakers takes some time to find its bearings, this may be the most confident and artistically-grounded film of Korine's career.

April 23, 2013 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

An audacious, synth-pop mélange of ecstatic heaven and drugged-out hell -- an allegory for the corruption of innocence and the fear of blossoming female sexuality.

April 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness
Shared Darkness

what you thought would happen does... and doesn't

April 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Film Racket
Film Racket

( ... ) for anyone refusing to acquiesce that this degree of 'girl power' is less a rite of passage and more like a collective suicide plunge onto a bed of six inch nails, perhaps Korine is right to be so provocative.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Birmingham Mail
Birmingham Mail

Audience Reviews for Spring Breakers

This was one film that was far better than expected, for me at least. It lives up to what it portrays in adverts; booze, sex, parties, drugs and violence. However, what I found fascinating is that the first half is a satire of the "outgoing" lifestyle of young adults who dedicate their lives to constantly partying and drinking booze. However, it slowly becomes a major development for the main girls as it shows how far they're willing to go before they accept reality. James Franco's performance stands superior to all of the four girls combined; his portrayal of a foul mouthed yet charismatic drug dealer is truly one of the major highlights of this film. From hearing all kinds from critics of 'Spring Breakers' possibly becoming a cult classic, this film has my approval of having that title.
September 3, 2013
Samuel Riley
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An energetic, hypnotic, colorful tale of four girls who want desperately to get out of their town for a little bit, and after a night of hard drug use decide to rob a diner to help fund their spring break vacation. While it features extreme nudity and an unending moral abyss its characters sink themselves into, this movie is ultimately a success as a middle-finger to my generation as to the hollow-ness the "party all the time" lifestyle ultimately holds. Ironically, a lot of people will not get this movie and view it as "too weird", but really it is director Harmony Korine showing just how selfish and foolish a lot of young people are these days. Sure, what is shown in this movie is a heavily exaggerated version of good times gone wrong, but it is still one that effectively captures young culture. The character development is not even close to good, but I do not think Korine was trying for that, instead having these characters be representatives of just ordinary college students who go off the rails. His Terrence Malick-ian way with the camera and his story is also a pretty big surprise, as the surreal nature and tones this film is given is a welcome surprise. Far from a great movie, but definitely a solid one with a fun, wacky performance from James Franco who creepily hangs around these girls through much of the movie.
August 17, 2013
Dan Schultz

Super Reviewer

    1. Candy: Spring Break forever, bitches.
    – Submitted by Acadia A (35 days ago)
    1. Alien: I'm made of fuckin' money. Look at my fuckin' teeth!
    – Submitted by Dillon F (2 months ago)
    1. Alien: I got Scarface on repeat. Scarface on repeat. Constant y'all!
    – Submitted by Eric D (3 months ago)
    1. Cotty: Never gonna get this puuuusssy.
    – Submitted by Ranger K (3 months ago)
    1. Alien: When I'm with them, I'm gonna be thinkin' about you.
    – Submitted by Alyssa B (4 months ago)
    1. Brit: Down, motherfucker! Down!
    – Submitted by José Diogo M (4 months ago)
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