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Kamikaze Girls
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56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    90
    A glorious blend of kitsch, grit, humor and uplift.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    A charmingly loony tale of two young loners who form an unlikely bond, this droll Japanese import puts the predictable banality of most Hollywood teen flicks to shame.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    75
    A silly, freewheeling, candy-colored lollapalooza, but also heartfelt.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Bill White
    75
    Fukada captures the stubborn individualism of a girl who embraces an unpopular lifestyle.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    70
    The yummy Japanese confection Kamikaze Girls deserves both a better title and an audience to go with it.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Brown
    67
    For the Western viewer, the cultural divide acts as a saccharine filter, and Kamikaze, a cult hit in Japan, becomes a mesmerizing lesson in otherness.
  7. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Andrew Sun
    60
    It's the kind of rollicking rebel-chick flick that should score well in venues that appreciate Quentin Tarantino films.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    50
    What Kamikaze Girls doesn't have is a plot. As nice as the film looks, it soon grows tiresome -- though I could listen to the Johann Strauss II soundtrack forever.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    But it's all done with such high style and whizzes along at such an exhausting pace that you probably won't have enough time to notice how little you care.
  10. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Greg Bellavia
    50
    Fluff. The cinematic equivalent of too much cotton candy Tetsuya Nanashima's Kamikaze Girls is a hyperkinetic fun house ride that is about forty five minutes too long.
  11. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    50
    For this viewer, the climactic scooter-gang rumble, heavy on plot twists and empowerment speeches, felt eternal, but for many, the happy silliness of the film's first half should carry the day.
  12. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    50
    Nakashima does his best to keep the flimsy enterprise afloat, mostly through whooshing camera movements and headlong dives into the grotesque extremes of Japanese kitsch. By the end, the effect is like eating a bellyache's worth of cotton candy.
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    50
    Wears out its welcome at 100 minutes, but could find an audience in the West as a latenight attraction at gay fests.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Matt Singer
    30
    If you value plausibility in movies, skip Kamikaze Girls; this is the sort of picture where getting run over by a truck gives a character gorgeous hair instead of a broken hip.
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8.9 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. CindyW.
    10
    Some critics just don't know a good movie when they see one. *shakes head* This movie is definately worth the watch!
  2. DennisL.
    10
    This movie is awesome! Some critics really have no idea how to review movies. The only people who shares their taste in movies are other movie critics!… Full Review »
  3. LindseyP.
    10
    I absolutly LOVED this movie and I know you will too!!!!
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