Roughly the first two-thirds of Heathers is sharp and illustrative. Finally, though, it lapses into teaching the audience a moral, that good ultimately triumphs over evil.

Full Review | May 9, 2023

With so many classic quips, is it any wonder Heathers has long been regarded as one of the best high school movies ever made?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2022

If it could've just given one f**k less, it would've been a masterpiece.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2020

Ryder brings such honesty to her high-camp role that you actually believe a kid like this could exist. And, astoundingly, you think you might actually like to meet her.

Full Review | Sep 6, 2019

...an erratically-paced yet ultimately rewarding endeavor...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2019

Even bigger, brasher, brighter and more vicious than the decade it satirises, though sadly "Heathers" failed to make Very happen. It's a blunt satire, though still effective, still coruscatingly funny - and scarily prescient.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 10, 2018

A pointless satire on high school coeds acting bitchy and hanging out in cliques.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Oct 31, 2018

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, what's so striking about the incisive and Machiavellian comedy is how fresh it feels.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2018

This nails the '80s high-school experience, then blows it up for good measure. More fun than a game of strip croquet. Now that's deep.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 5, 2018

Mostly this is gleeful nastiness crafted with jagged irony and with a captivating performance by Winona Ryder at its centre.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2018

Still shocking after 30 years... this definitive blast of teenage nihilism is strong medicine indeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2018

If there's a weakness of motivation in Heathers, it may be because the whole film is rather dream-like, a product of Veronica's fevered writing and imaginings, with a consequent chaos and interchangeability of roles.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2018

Heathers really is odd, like a mix of something by Stephen King and Bret Easton Ellis...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2018

'Heathers' still pulses with the visceral thrill of getting away with something - both on- and off-screen.

Full Review | Jun 18, 2016

After Columbine, this dark comedy isn't as funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Heathers locates the emotional totalitarianism lurking in a prom queen's heart.

Full Review | Aug 31, 2010

A super-smart black comedy about high school politics and teenage suicide that showcases a host of promising young talents.

Full Review | Aug 31, 2010

Heathers, with all its flagrant masochism and violence, is a throwback to a more innocent time, where such films could be made and still be deemed over the top fantasy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2010

... the film paints high school as a veritable hell where the only way to alleviate suffering is by making others suffer more.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2008

Two decades later, Heathers is so on the money, with its vague but unmistakable parallels to several school shootings, that it could never be made today.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 15, 2008