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57 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
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  1. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    88
    The movie made me so happy, and here I am back on the subway with Nerdo, and there's this jerk across the aisle who's like ancient, 30 at least, and he's got the nerve to look right into my see-through Madonna lace outfit. And he winks. Oh, barf- ola.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Patrick Goldstein
    80
    Delightful... The film is buoyed by a captivating performance by Ringwald, who has an unerring ability to share her character's emotions with an audience, as if we were eavsdropping behind her makeup mirror. [28 Feb 1986]
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  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    Although it is not a great movie, it contains some moments when the audience is likely to think, yes, being 16 was exactly like that.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    75
    Very high on my list of good movie titles, has fascinating deep tones, surprising poignancy, and tendor humor for a movie aimed at teenage audiences. [28 Feb 1986]
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  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    70
    Fortunately, the actors are mostly likable, and the story is told gently enough to downplay both its trendiness and its conventionality.
  6. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    70
    Blane's snooty friend Steff (Spader) could be a tired stereotype, but with his all-year tan, his hip-blase voice and hs view of high school as a "career," Steff becomes a recognizable character of any age: upscale slime in embryo. [3 Mar 1996, p.83]
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  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    70
    A rather intelligent (if not terribly original) look at adolescent insecurities.
  8. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    60
    While the script contains trite and unbelievable dialogue, the superbly convincing performances make up for these faults.
  9. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Brad Laidman
    60
    I got my first date because of this movie so you won't see me giving it any less than three stars.
  10. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    40
    Slack and unconvincing throughout with the exception of Ringwald, who remains natural and appealing as the thin world of the film collapses around her.
  11. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Gene Siskel
    38
    What we have here is a much less radical movie than writer Hughes probably believes he has created. Yes, he's given us an individualistic girl, but she swoons like a robot after the first reasonably human WASP or WASC asks her for a date. [2 Feb 1986]
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  12. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Pauline Kael
    30
    The movie is slight and vapid, with the consistency of watery jello...It isn't about teenagers – it's actually closer to being a pre-teen's idea of what it will be like to be a teenager. [7 Apr 1996, p.91]
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