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40 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceScott FoundasVillage VoiceScott FoundasSpring Breakers seems to be holding a funhouse mirror up to the face of youth-driven pop culture, leaving us uncertain whether to laugh, recoil in horror, or marvel at its strange beauty. All I knew is I couldn't wait to see it a second time.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanHarmony Korine's first ''mainstream'' movie, Spring Breakers, is by far the best thing he's ever done.
- 80The GuardianXan BrooksThe GuardianXan BrooksFull credit to Korine, who sustains this act of creative vandalism right through to the finish. Spring Breakers unfolds as a fever dream of teenage kicks, a high-concept heist movie with mescal in the fuel tank.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfSpring Breakers is either an inspired satire of the youth movie or the most irresponsible comedy mainstream Hollywood will never make. The bros in your crowd will call it rad — and radical it is.
- 75The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonMidnight movie programmers of the future will undoubtedly give it a long life years after it’s gone from first-run theaters.
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineOne of the effects of Harmony Korine's feverish, hypnotic style is that the whole thing feels like a fantasy—or rather a nightmare perversion of the American dream.
- 67Film.comJordan HoffmanFilm.comJordan HoffmanIt’s shallow, it’s boring, it’s poignant, it’s clever, it’s poorly acted, it’s intentionally poorly acted, it has no story, it has marvelous scenes, it is artful, it is hallucinatory, it is shoddily put together. All response is valid.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyIt has hypnotic visual style and a dense, driving soundscape. But it’s also too monotonous and thematically empty to be seriously provocative.
- 30TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard Corliss"Trash Humpers" at least had the artistic courage of its own lunatic convictions, but Spring Breakers is all surface and sham; it’s trash about humpers.