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Heathers

1989

Michael Lehmann

Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Kim Walker, Lisanne Falk ...

6.2

3,683

Comedy Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) has sacrificed everything in order to preserve her place in Westerburg High’s most impenetrable social clique, the Heathers. As the only member of the group not named "Heather", Veronica has to work extra hard just to stay afloat. Going against her own morals and intelligence, Veronica succumbs to peer pressure on a daily basis, faking her delight in the humiliation of the school’s less popular students. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Its originality extends well beyond the limits of ordinary high school histrionics and into the realm of the genuinely perverse."	POS
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"'Heathers' gets lost in a moral thicket (...) To mount black comedy successfully, you must have a clearly defined point of view"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"What sets 'Heathers' apart from less intelligent teenage movies is that it has a point of view toward this subject matter - a bleak, macabre and bitingly satirical one (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] succeeds at least in being offbeat, but its inanities and glib pretensions are so thick that it mainly comes across as tacky and contrived."	NEG
United Kingdom	Damon Wise The Guardian	"Michael Lehmann's jet-black comedy – superbly scripted by Daniel Waters – offered a macabre take on the teenage experience"	POS
United Kingdom	Nigel Floyd Time Out	"The compromised ending (...) is a serious let-down, but there is some exceptional ensemble acting, several stylish set pieces, and more imaginative slang than you could shake a cheerleader's ass at."	NEU
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A cracked satire of the teen genre, it's slangy, raunchy and gutsy as a prom date with Carrie."	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"Beneath the hip, lip-glossed surface of this devastatingly witty black comedy lurks a serious satire (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"Still deliciously dark and, for the most part, courageous. The hair and clothes may have dated, but the this satire still has bite (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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