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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Metascore
59 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
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  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    88
    Kudrow's Michele is a deadpan delight as she joins fellow misfit Romy (a deliciously funny Mira Sorvino).
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Ron Wells
    80
    Garofalo is amazing, as always, and the film is almost about her as much as the leads. The recreation of the casts' high school years is wickedly funny and dead on.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    It has charm, a sly intelligence, and the courage to go for special effects sequences.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    75
    A frothy comedy with the most adorable buddies since "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
  5. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    75
    One of those pleasant movie-going experiences that doesn't offend, excite, or challenge anyone. There are all sorts of likable things about it.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    70
    Though "Romy and Michelle" doing Tucson doesn't take us much further than Beavis and Butt-head doing America, the ride, and the company, are a lot more fun.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    70
    Cheerful, giddy fun.
  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    70
    Despite the aggressive silliness of this enjoyable comedy, the emotional focus on the painful social experience of high school makes the film real and immediate, and the flavorsome dialogue in Robin Schiff's script gives the leads a lot to work (as well as play) with.
  9. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Jane Ganahl
    63
    Ultimately, though, the movie's charms are frustrated by meandering direction.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    A candy-colored, superficially fizzy revenge fantasy with a startlingly corrosive undercurrent of bitterness and frustration.
  11. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Robin Dougherty
    60
    As lightweight as it is, it's easy to feel real affection for the movie.
  12. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    60
    It's the spark and surprise of good sketch comedy that makes this film really work--the laugh-out-loud moments are worth the wait.
  13. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    58
    This sloppy, pleasant comedy by playwright and TV producer Robin Schiff (Almost Perfect) is an amiable mess, a padded-out expansion of a play called "Ladies' Room."
  14. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Susan Wloszczyna
    50
    Isn't smart enough to cut it as the ultimate blond joke. [25 April 1997, p. 4D]
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  15. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    50
    Okay, some of this is mildly diverting.
  16. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    50
    Desperately uncertain in tone and able to generate only sporadic laughs, pic decks out its meager story of revenge and comeuppance with a vulgar, flashy shimmer that will no doubt attract teenage girls, or the core "Clueless" audience.
  17. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Russell Smith
    40
    Sorvino and Kudrow, for whatever inscrutable reasons, seem to be having a blast with their ridiculous characters, and both shine in the loopy set-pieces and dream sequences that pepper the story.
  18. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Stephen Thompson
    40
    Kudrow and Sorvino aren't really given a script to work with; most jokes consist of the two women being vacuous together.
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7.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. Joshua
    10
    Funniest nostalgia-fest I have ever seen. Lisa Kudrow makes every line hilarious.
  2. Rahul
    8
    Easily one of the funniest movies ever.
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