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48 out of 100

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5.1 out of 10

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  • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Kristy Swanson
  • Summary: Buffy is so popular. She rules her high school as head cheerleader. But it's not all fun and games. She has to juggle a pushy boyfriend, style-stealing rivals, and her duties as head of the dance committee. But when this serious old dude comes around and tells her about some birth-right that makes her the Chosen One, she has to learn how to fight vampires too and like save the world or something. … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 17
  3. Negative: 4 out of 17
  1. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jay Scott
    75
    Buffy The Vampire Slayer should be a mess, but it's not. It's a mini-comic triumph, and although it's technically a teen movie, it's in the tiny genre of sophisticated, darkly funny teen films such as Heathers and Pump Up the Volume. [4 Aug 1992, p.C1]
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  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Emma Cochrane
    60
    This spoof vampire flick's sole joke is that the heroine (Kristy Swanson) is a blonde, L.A. airhead rather than a beefed-up stake-toter, mentored by Donald Sutherland's deadpan Watcher.
  3. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    38
    Buffy isn't heinous, just disposable. As a friend tells Buffy while she eyes a fashion purchase, "It's so five minutes ago."

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  1. j30
    3
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer is simply awful. Even the writer Joss Whedon has made it clear that this is not what he had envisioned. Bad acting, bad lines after bad lines. Why would Donald Sutherland waste his time with something like this?… Expand
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