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  • Summary: A downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom. (Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14
  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Justine Elias
    Apr 8, 2012
    75
    High school students (the jocks, the brains, the princesses, the criminals, the basket cases), long the favored prey of serial killers, somehow manage to fight back from the brink yet again in Detention, a bright, witty new genre mash-up.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    Apr 12, 2012
    60
    It's as if the TV character Dawson directed "Heathers," or another one, Parker Lewis, remade "Scream." Who'd have guessed that would be a can't-lose idea?
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Farran Smith Nehme
    Apr 13, 2012
    38
    Detention does have imaginative editing and a stylish, candy-colored look - that is, so long as no one's vomiting, an activity that takes up an ungodly portion of the running time.

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  1. eliotwalnut
    10
    This movie is attempting to be a lot of things all at once, and has the attention span of an ADHD child in a chinashop. It's sloppy and most of the ideas, gags, characters, whims, plots don't go anywhere; but what is endearing and why I am in love with this movie is the chaotic energy put forth in the effort. At its heart it is most like HEATHERS. The pace is consistently frantic, the performances are charming, and the script is maddening-genius. You'll know in the first five-minutes if this film is for you.… Expand
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  2. MegWhiteley
    8
    This is a good movie, have some interesting moments, the cast is good, Josh Hutcherson wow, great young actor, and Spencer Locke amazing girl, this movie is really interesting and in some moemtns scare.… Expand
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