| 90 |
LA Weekly
A dark, biting comedy-- funny, smart and full of unpredictable twist and turns.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
In his knockout directorial debut writer Kevin Williamson taps into such universal memories with his shrewd and energetic dark comedy.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
Flecked with delicious malice, and the kids, especially newcomer Coughlin, performs with verve and high energy.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Not surprisingly, the best thing on the screen is Mirren.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Williamson's screenplay doesn't match the cleverness of his conceit; it lacks the requisite archness and wit.
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| 50 |
Newsweek
Ted Gideonse
There are some very funny moments, and Coughlan is a delight as Leigh Anne's best friend.
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| 50 |
Mr. Showbiz
Wholly predictable and implausible plotting, thin characterizations, and stilted dialogue.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Mirren is about the only reason this slow-moving revenge tale tingles at all.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Very much a freshman effort, lacking focus, edge.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
The same bland vision of teendom that's become inescapable on the small and big screens.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
A derisively vicious show-off satire, a plastic exercise in authority bashing.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
The tone of the film malingers somewhere between hyper-real comedy and thriller, but neither element really shines through.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Williamson's directorial debut is a sad affair, devoid of shocks, surprises, or even his clever trademark diologue.
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| 40 |
Time
It's too empty to applaud, too insignificant to deplore.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
A wildly uneven and sloppily directed movie, full of clashing tones and undigested bits of superior films.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Newly benign and noticeably clumsier than the hits (Williamson) has written.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Neither very dark nor particularly funny.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Williamson deals mostly in cliches, as if high schoolers weren't smart enough to appreciate anything subtler.
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| 38 |
New York Post
An ugly, failed attempt to pull off a "Heathers"-style, teen-oriented black comedy.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
There is nothing funny about the situation in Teaching Mrs. Tingle.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Mostly a screenful of nothingness.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Underwhelming thriller.
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| 30 |
Film.com
The new dud from Miramax's Dimension label.
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| 30 |
Variety
A pat, hollow exercises with few tricks (or treats) up its sleeve.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Yet another black comedy that misunderstands and misrepresents the genre.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Williamson's script, which he also directed, is spiteful and shallow.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
An infuriatingly indulgent piffle of adolescent wish-fulfillment.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
A mean-hearted, ham-handed and gratuitous effort to exploit it's teenage audience's conviction that, underneath it all, their teachers really. do hate them.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
A spectacularly mediocre movie.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
The story is painfully slow.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Lazily written and hopelessly miscast.
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| 0 |
TNT RoughCut
One of the worst movies released this year.
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