10 Things I Hate About You Critic Reviews
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Lutz's dialogue is consistently sharp and snappy, and the large cast forms a sparkling ensemble under Junger's adept direction.Read the full review
It's a celebration of young American women, finding them smarter, tougher, shrewder, more rigorous, more persistent and more honest than any movie in many a moon.Read the full review
Immensely likable.Read the full review
The film's crank-case snappishness doesn't break any molds, but it certainly gives you a lift.Read the full review
What sets this apart from its many competitors for teen dollars is that not only does the movie feature a surprisingly edgy and intelligent script, but it offers a group of characters capable of holding an audience's interest for more than 90 minutes.Read the full review
And yet ... gee, the movie is charming, despite its exhausted wheeze of an ancient recycled plot idea.Read the full review
10 Things doesn't take much time before ditching its pitch idea in favor of a mishmash of newer formulas, never quite settling on a cogent game plan or directorial tone.Read the full review
If it's all very clever for a teen-age film, it also feels terribly forced.Read the full review
While the attractive cast is willing, the translation into '90s teen culture is weak -- like a clueless adult's notion of cool.Read the full review
It wimped out by blanding down the story and the characters to the point where she isn't really a shrew and he isn't really a maniac.Read the full review
