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78Molly Ringwald is radiant here as the eternal teen looking for love.
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75This is a fresh and cheerful movie with a goofy sense of humor and a good ear for how teenagers talk.
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75The premise is ordinary, but the film is distinguished by funny gags and excellent performances by Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall.
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70The movie is cheerful and light, showcasing Mr. Hughes's knack for remembering all those aspects of middle-class American adolescent behavior that anyone else might want to forget.
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70Ringwald is engaging and credible. For the boys, there's a bright, funny performance by Anthony Michael Hall.
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63Screenwriter John Hughes, making his directing debut, is at his best when he empathizes with the sensitivity in the ugly-duckling Ringwald and Hall characters. [04 May 1984]
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50There are individual sequences alternately amusing and touching. [08 May 1984]
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50Hall is very funny as the energetic adolescent pest and a good supporting cast includes the Cusack sibings John and Joan.
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50Along with the lapses of taste that have become standard in pictures aimed at teen audiences, filmmaker John Hughes offers moments of wit and warmth.
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30Hughes invokes the classical unities of time, place, and plot symmetry, yet he trashes his careful structure every time he needs a gag - destroying the integrity of his characters, shattering the plausibility of his situations.
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