Heathers Critic Reviews
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It's shockingly funny - you don't sit there deciding to laugh. Your own laughter catches you by surprise. [14 Apr 1989]Read the full review
More than just one of the best movies so far this year, it is a revolution in young-adult entertainment.Read the full review
Wickedly funny. In fact, Heathers may be the nastiest, cruelest fun you can have without actually having to study law or gird leather products. If movies were food, Heathers would be a cynic's chocolate binge.Read the full review
Daniel Waters' enormously clever screenplay blazes a trail of originality through the dead wood of the teen-comedy genre.Read the full review
It's a tough entry into the tough black-comic genre; don't be surprised if it becomes a classic. [31 March 1989]Read the full review
Heathers gave me the creeps but it also made me laugh. This bizarre variation on that Hollywood staple, the teen movie, is one weird original. [30 Mar 1989 p.A12(E)]Read the full review
As snappy and assured as it is mean-spirited. Its originality extends well beyond the limits of ordinary high school histrionics and into the realm of the genuinely perverse.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Unfortunately, director Michael Lehmann's point of view is swivel-mounted: He doesn't have the courage of his cynicism. [31 Mar 1989]Read the full review
