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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
2008
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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
Positive Reviews
21
Negative reviews
19
Average Rating
2.5
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2.5
For all its good intentions, its ultimately too half assed and lethargic to work as a conventional horror film, and not nearly thoughtful or incisive ..
Av Club
3.0
Not nearly thoughtful or incisive enough to subsist on thwarted expectations alone.
Av Club
1.5
And hey, theres a young Anson Mount as Garth, the groundskeeper with a leering smile for Mandy Lane too!
Den Of Geek
1.5
Mandy Lane isnt a bad film its just that it seemed, on so many levels, completely at odds with itself.
Den Of Geek
1.5
Everything seems to be going really, really well theres a compelling story, there are believeable characters, and theres some really inventive gore an ..
Den Of Geek
1.5
She comes off rather boring because she doesnt talk much and shes shy, which is why I think shes most interesting to all the boys shes the quiet, myst ..
Common Sense Media
2.5
Is it an inevitable by product of the evil hype machine.Unfortunately.
We Got This Covered
2.0
For a film about the evils of peer pressure, this nonsensical thriller sure wants to play with the cool kids: lingering shots on high school bods, ble ..
Time Out
4.0
Unsurprisingly,because a perfect teen horror always leaves a door open, theres definitelyroom left for a sequel.
Screen Daily
2.5
While some of the kills are sufficiently clever and gnarly, Mandy Lane is never particularly frightening. And the twist at the end raises the wee issu ..
Rogerebert
2.0
It would still be interesting to see the director take on some more straight horror fare, but hopefully next time he would be working from a much stro ..
Cinema Blend
2.0
Despite early promise for a semi interesting examination of teenage obsession, the film devolves into a standard, and not thrilling, body count builde ..
Ny Daily News
1.9
You can see why the boys go mad.The rest of the cast is game, but forgettable.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.0
The fresh cast is extremely good at capturing these moods on screen, and their interaction bristles with natural chemistry and jagged attitude, which ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.5
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
4.0
Amber Heard is particularly good as Mandy, who seems naively oblivious to the danger around her.Slasher fans will no doubt be pleased to learn that th ..
View London
3.0
After all, if horror aficionados couldnt see it, it had to be good, right
Ew
4.5
But what it is is a strong and surprising slasher film with characters that are actually engaging to watch.All the while it sets us up for some of the ..
Cinema Crazed
2.0
And the murders arent even inventive, so you cant even enjoy the victims expiration.
Empire
4.5
Handling the cliches expertly, playfully, its all the while taking us somewhere quite different.
Eye For Film
0.0
Imbued with a sense of constant calamity that is never a surprise, the movie becomes the same slaughterhouse of cliches it pretends to poke fun at.
Observer
3.0
High schooler Mandy Lane ( Amber Heard ) doesnt drink, do drugs, or have sex, but is still an object of mystery and desire among boys.One young man in ..
Common Sense Media
2.0
With both jocks and bimbettes falling left, right and centre, though, the chances of anybody making it to graduation are getting slimmer by the minute ..
Bbc
2.5
Like far too many modern horror films, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane flaunts its knowledge of classic genre fundamentals but fails to do anything very ..
Slant Magazine
3.1
Too dumb for the arthouse, but too smart for the mall multiplex, the movie satisfies, paradoxically, precisely because it doesnt deliver on expectatio ..
Washington Post
3.0
Photo A horror movie rises from the dead with All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, a theatrical release seven years in coming.Though it had its premiere at t ..
The New York Times
3.8
The film, twisting in fresh ways that set it apart from the usual paint by numbers slasher flickin this regard, it is reminiscent of 2003s expertly co ..
The Movie Boy
3.5
This has understandably made director Jonathan Levines film something of a cult item among genre aficionados, with the obvious danger of the movie bei ..
Los Angeles Times
1.3
And while Heard delivers an appreciatively charismatic turn as the movies protagonist, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is otherwise suffused with an asso ..
Reel Film
3.1
Originality is not the films strong suit, as much as it strives to reinvent the wail.
The Star
3.0
Instead, Mandy and the film calmly wait to be seen for who they really are underneath the hype.
La Weekly
1.0
Itll make you jolt, but youll feel extremely irate and not want to endure such an episode again.
Digital Spy
1.3
A slightly artsy attempt to revive the teen slasher movie, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane drifts awkwardly between popcorn entertainment and angsty mood ..
New York Post
1.9
Finally being released seven years later, its a lethargic effort that leaves only bloodshed where a character study should have been.
Red Eye Chicago
3.5
Sometimes, the story behind a film is more lively than the movie itself.
Film Racket
0.0
What they seem to have in common is too much money and time on their hands.
News Blaze
3.0
Screenwriter Jacob Foreman is more interested in beating this teen shallowness into the ground instead of intricately tying interior discontent to the ..
Brian Or Ndorf
2.5
But however smart its conceit or inviting its photography and music cues (from Bobby Vinton to The Go Gos), the film is still about dumb, vulgar, witl ..
The Dissolve
1.5
Despite the surprisingly chilling performance Heard offers as the title character, and the cinematographers distinctive style, Levines directorial deb ..
Shockya
1.0
Maybe theres a more consistent film in the edit somewhere a slick little low budget thriller, perhaps but dont bother looking for it because it aint i ..
The Shiz Nit
2.0
As it is, Mandy Lane feels bogus and compromised: an unreconstructed horror romp in the guise of a nerdish intellectual.
Film Guardian
3.0
Its whole approach to dissecting horror tropes feels very amateurish, and Levine has since gone on to direct much more interesting stuff.
Movie Mezzanine
3.0
Thats a basic summary: dumb kids doing dumb things for dumb reasons.
Film Jerk
3.0
Heard conveys the requisite sense of otherworldliness without effort.
O Canada
4.5
Theres some solid humor to be found in the flick, but dont let that fool you: Mandy Lane is true blue horror all the way.Its alarmingly dry, sly, and ..
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