Spring Breakers

  • 2013


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4.4
On other occasions, you feel as if youre experiencing raw, mad, avant garde genius at work. Rogerebert
3.1
Korines latest is a characteristically serious film about inherently ridiculous characters, but its too montonous to be really thoughtful or funny. Rogerebert
1.5
The juddering electro score, a collaboration between Cliff Martinez (Drive) and chart topping dubstep wizard Skrillex, couldnt be more on the money. Variety
3.5
Harmony Korines Spring Breakers is rough around the edges, visually pleasing, experimental and a downright bizarre film, but one thats worthy of at le .. We Got This Covered
3.8
Story hiccups aside (or lack thereof), the film is wild, exhilarating and above all things, fresh. We Got This Covered
3.0
Its a bizarre and upending performance; Franco gives it all hes got and is forever spinning guns and fondling cash (when hes not playing Britney Spear .. Time Out
4.0
Spring Breakers is either an inspired satire of the youth movie or the most irresponsible comedy mainstream Hollywood will never make. The bros in you .. Time Out
3.8
Then theres Andrei Tarkovskys Stalker, which transfigures Arkady and Boris Strugatskys briskly paced novella Roadside Picnic into a slow, mesmerizing ..
0.6
Once a year, St. Petersburg is awash with thoughtless, unpleasant people making poor decisions. This spring, Korine is one of them.
4.5
The fact that three of its drug taking, girl on girl action protagonists (Hudgens, Benson and Gomez) hail from squeaky clean film and TV backgrounds, .. Screen Daily
0.5
Benson has moments of bedraggled grace, and Hudgens plays the dirtiest minded girl with infectious glee. Vulture
1.5
It has hypnotic visual style and a dense, driving soundscape. But its also too monotonous and thematically empty to be seriously provocative. The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
In turns appealing and horrifying, Spring Breakers is Korines most cogent take yet on societys outsiders.
3.1
While the film is lensed nicely by Benot Debie (Enter the Void) and scored moodily by Cliff Martinez (Drive), theres very little substance to grasp on .. Paste Magazine
3.8
Mud is a beautiful, humorous, tension filled and sad tale with more great work from McConaughey about learning the hard way that love and mud can be a .. E Film Critic
5.0
Actual spring breakers will probably loathe the movie; its really for the pale art majors who never went. E Film Critic
2.0
The trouble is all in the films wildly anxious structure, which feels largely dictated in the cutting room by Korine going out of his way not to be ac .. Telegraph
3.0
While the film is a success on its own art house exploitation terms, it cant help but feel like a missed opportunity. Telegraph
3.0
But its also too monotonous and thematically empty to be seriously provocative.
3.8
After a bacchanalian frenzy and a predatory rescue by Alien, things get disturbingly weird, gloriously weird and then semi coherent for a few minutes, .. San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
A lurid, luminous teen bender movie, as ludicrous as it is stylish, and Harmony Korines best film in years.
3.5
I cant emphasize enough, though, that the whole of Breakers isnt as good as some of its parts. Cinema Blend
3.0
Korine manages to make much of the film into a Natural Born Killers style pop patchwork with a videogame influenced lack of morality. Ny Daily News
4.0
Its gorgeous to look at, and Im not only referring to the sexy girls in bikinis (although that doesnt hurt). JoBlo
3.5
A divisive work of art, Spring Breakers is an audacious, yet enthralling and even transcendent, portrait of maturity sprouting from a place of corrupt .. Screen Rant
3.8
Here, dropping F bombs and bikini tops with like alacrity, theyre clearly Disney Girls Gone Wild. The Globe And Mail
3.0
Garish, goofy, leering and nasty, its meant to be hypnotic, but winds up nearly unwatchable. One Guys Opinion
3.1
The laughs arent obvious, and every situation is tinged with a darkness. Rogers Movie Nation
3.8
When theyre playing around with loaded weapons, it doesnt matter whether one goes off. ReelViews
3.0
Its a sleazy, snoozy, borderline insufferable motion picture. If you see the film, just know that youll probably have to register as a sex offender af .. Blu Ray
4.4
Its not exactly an exploitation film, and its not exactly an art film, but its also both at the same time. Its the type of experience that blows your .. Combust Ible Celluloid
1.5
Korine gestures toward social criticism, but essentially this is just an hour and a half of bongs beers... thinly dressed as Natural Born Killers. Chicago Reader
1.9
Spring Breakers is satire akin to deconstructing a cardboard box with a chainsaw. Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
...the films greatest acting asset is James Franco, going for broke in his own Killer Joe role.
2.5
Spring Breakers is aimed at fans of such cinematic virtuosity as Girls Gone Wild and the most violent video games. Usa Today
3.1
Theres an expected lack of momentum here thats nothing short of disastrous, and it doesnt help, either, that much of the midsection follows an eye rol .. Reel Film Reviews
1.5
The problem is, Spring Breakers is so unrelentingly base and vulgar and titillating that its ultimately exhausting. Screen It
3.1
The actors cant compete with the kinky, trippy visuals except Franco, who surfs Korines wavelength and doesnt wipe out. Rolling Stone
1.5
His tendency to turn his subjects into freaks doesnt feel as irritating here, mainly because spring break itself is already such a freakshow that ther .. The Wrap
4.0
A weird, day glo fusion of trashy exploitation thriller and arthouse pretension, enlivened by game performances from a trio of former squeaky clean TV .. View London
3.1
With its violence, copious drug use, threesomes and scenes of the women in tiny bikinis, the movie revels in the debauchery without saying much about .. News Day
1.9
One moment hes fellating a revolver as a form of (unconsummated) foreplay. New York Post
4.4
It may take you a few minutes to realize youre watching James Franco. Boston
4.0
Initially, youll think youre watching some soft porn music video. Smh
4.5
Only Gomez, as the churchgoing sweetheart Faith, distinguishes herself. Npr
3.8
Korines story is a searing indictment of todays hedonistic, nihilistic youth, and his script is loaded with sharp, telling dialogue that exposes the r .. Toronto Star
3.0
Writer director Harmony Korine shows progress as a craftsman with this tale, which is at once his most accessible feature as well as deconstructive cr .. Emanuellevy
3.0
Harmony Korine has given us a violent pulp true romance that could be renamed A Pre Summers Nights Wet Dream. Guardian
4.0
He bounces back like a man possessed, rekitted as some 21st century Russ Meyer, playing disreputable paterfamilias to a fresh breed of supervixens. Guardian
2.5
Some see him as a subversive genius, while others see little more than a canny exploiter of the cinematic dark side. Q Network
1.0
Its the kind of experimental movie hailed as edgy, subversive and transgressive, when in fact its inept, amateurish and loathsome. Daily Mail
4.5
Much of Spring Breakers is about what we perceive and what we really dont know until the very end. Cinema Crazed
1.5
But it doesnt sound super fun, right Its an elaborate way of saying that if youre too uncool to dig the intentionally trashy and heavy handed emptines .. Salon
1.5
Spring Breakers doesnt show much in the way of graphic sex acts, though theres one dont try this at home scene of man on gun fellatio. Slate
1.0
An intriguing cinematic spectacle: an awful film that seems aware nay, aggressively boastful of its own awfulness. Flim List
3.0
Voyeuristic, visually exploitive, hyper sexualized cinematic commentary about the superficial emptiness of our youth driven pop culture. Susang Ranger
4.5
...an objective portrait of the way that popular culture has virtually obliterated the possibility for American youth to experience something without .. Movies
4.0
... it isnt so much a movie about freedom or rule breaking as it is about every generations conformity to overwhelming pressure, about how human behav .. Movies
4.5
The film stands, overall, as one of the directors richer provocations ... New Yorker
3.0
The nonstop cutting suggests the attention span of a monkey on meth. Boston Herald
2.0
A tedious attempt to inject some style and artistic flair into the teen movie, combing outrageous behaviour with arty, slo mo cinematography and a mon .. Express
3.8
Starts out like a salacious, rump centric and blithely bare breasted hip hop video and ends up in the realm of scary and inspired trash. Chicago Tribune
4.0
The intoxicating power of, well, intoxication is not to be questioned. The Irish Times
3.0
Ultimately a fairly thin, pulpy crime tale, given more substance than it should have on paper thanks to some excellent filmmaking. Blogs Indie Wire
2.0
And if hes making a point about the medias commodification of young womens bodies, it gets lost in the way the movie itself ogles those same bodies. Las Vegas Weekly
1.0
If youre up for indulging in its insanity and sullying of Disney good girls Gomez and Hudgens, youll no doubt love it, but if not you may want to let .. Lyles Movie Files
4.0
Its a disturbing look forward in the lives of Gomezs core audience, a generation thats grown up in the Internet wild wild west, where piracy is as rou .. Hollywood
2.0
First image and last: its not an idea hes advanced an inch beyond here. Standard
3.8
Best of all is Benot Debies (Enter the Void) startling, sometimes awe inspiring cinematography. Movie Freak
2.0
A half hour, four hours, two days after walking away from it you might still flashback to its seductive, neon lit, dayglow world. Detroit News
3.5
One can imagine that a lot of guys would be into that sort of thing but it doesnt a movie make.
4.5
An authentically cracked expression of the crazy, conflicting signals bombarding todays teenagers. Cnn
5.0
This provocative idea permeates the film, giving it a haunting, unsettling vibe. Aisle Seat
1.3
Here hes Alien, a trashy Southern gangsta rapper turning rapping gangster. Nj
1.5
I couldnt get past the feeling that this was basically the directors softcore material masquerading as a feature film 7M Pictures
2.0
Korine seems, almost despite himself, to have something more than hip nihilism as his goal. Oregon Live
4.5
In many ways, this trashy, dazzling but enigmatic film belongs to Francos Alien, a wannabe gangsta who just doesnt have the guts or heart to be a cold .. Film Ink
3.8
An audacious, sun kissed nightmare that folds the directors familiar flair for the surreal into a narrative framework that results in his most coheren .. Movies Tv Guide
4.0
Blazing a vicious, narcissistic trail straight through the eternally sacred American Dream, Korine has reaffirmed himself as one of his nations most c .. Cine Vue
3.0
Nevertheless, this is a disturbing, sexy and highly entertaining take on the contemporary American Dream. Cine Vue
2.0
These characters know what genre theyre in, and what stereotypes theyre living out, but because they dont seem human from the start its not interestin .. Digital Spy
3.0
Film as a fetish tool, thats what Spring Breakers is all about, yall. Tamp A Bay
4.4
Unexpectedly great. hasnt just tapped into the youthful, throbbing pulse of the party hes analyzed the dash between the wub wub. Red Eye Chicago
3.8
It may be irritating, but Spring Breakers is like a sunburn we cant help scratching. Stl Today
3.5
Francos performance is suitably extraterrestrial: hilarious, disturbing, deranged, poignant and endlessly quotable. Screen Crush
5.0
Its amusing, maybe a little forlorn underneath that, and ultimately chilling beyond belief. Dustin Put Man
3.5
So its no wonder that Alien stands out so starkly, or that Franco gets his groove absolutely right: hes a wannabe who loves the money, drugs, women an .. Contact Music
4.0
Similarly, the performances are pitched perfectly between three dimensional characters and cautionary examples. Film Racket
2.5
Spring Breakers doesnt get this nasty (though one scene flirts with such a volatile situation, then curiously backs away from it). Larsen On Film
4.5
Populated with characters who seem to have no interior life..In his own oblique way, Korine offers commentary about just how empty that world is. Hollywood And Fine
4.0
Its not the wages of sin we need to worry about, its bored co eds desperate to feel alive Killer Movie Reviews
4.4
Korine maintains his own artistic integrity while making, if youre actually paying attention, legit social commentary and deeply introspective films.
4.0
There are pornos that dont have as many slow motion shots of boobs bouncing as Spring Breakers. Hollywood Chicago
4.0
If youre not sure if Spring Breakers is for you, its not for you. Cinemix Tape
3.5
Is it a sensible story Absolutely not, but if youre trying to take this one seriously, youve got much bigger problems. Shockya
4.0
If Michael Mann was to take a lot of hallucinogenics and shoot a Girls Gone Wild video, it might look something like this. The Skinny
5.0
This isnt to suggest Spring Breakers is plotless; snippets of one do emerge. Scots Man
3.0
Wheres the provocation in a long, slow build up to nothing in particular Korines movies have no answers or solutions. They just push buttons. Scots Man
3.0
Director Harmony Korine possesses an astute ability to periodise moments in youth culture and this latest attempt is for the most successful. Metro
4.5
In appearing to embrace the mainstream, erstwhile enfant terrible Harmony Korine orchestrates one of his most provocative, formally experimental films .. Film 4
4.5
And hey, theres no better stand in for Hell itself than the state of Florida. Streaming Quickflix
3.1
The latest gonzo endeavor from writer director Harmony Korine, Spring Breakers manages to be a fever dream, a wet dream, a daydream and a nightmare al .. Clclt
2.0
...a thoroughly detestable piece of gutter trash masquerading as some kind of abstract piece of pop art. From The Balcony
4.5
Korine doesnt have to wave American flags in the middle ground or background, television and pop cultures downward dive has pre waved for him. New City Film
3.0
While films such as Spring Breakers should never be blamed for gun violence, they can be used to gauge just how much people truly care about such issu .. Tiny Url
3.0
If you can look beyond Harmony Korines misogynistic, uncomfortably leering view of the women in his film, there is some stuff to enjoy, though the fil .. Fan The Fire Magazine
0.5
Spring Breakers is all surface and sham; its trash about humpers. Entertainment Time
2.0
Traditionally, spring break flicks are teen angst induced romantic comedies. Brain death is the best description. Spring Breakers is a totally new way .. Tri City Herald
2.0
From its pointless script, sloppy acting and dreadful direction, Spring Breakers is not nearly as profound as it pretends to be. Reel Talk Online
2.0
As a director, Korine certainly has visual style (most of it seemingly knocked off from MTV Beach Party) but doesnt seem overly concerned with fleshin .. Sky
5.0
Its a dizzyingly visceral experience that almost seems like the product of one of its characters drug induced hallucinations. The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
3.8
When youve spent decades crawling through grime, it makes little sense to get angry at the mirror for reflecting filth. Free Beacon
3.0
Girls Gone Wild would have turned the cameras off and called the cops; luckily Harmony Korine was at the helm here to keep the action going in churnin .. Schmoes Know
2.5
As the film progresses the hedonism and then the violence, escalate to absurd levels, removing the action from the realm of reality. Hey U Guys
3.5
... Spring Breakers is a gas to look at and to hear, and its easily Korines most successfully sustained work. MSN Movies
3.0
Harmony Korines take on a modern sexploitation movie about bikini girls with machine guns in the vein of a Monte Hellman flick.
0.5
Real tears stream down Gomezs face; its the least and the best acting shes ever done. Esquire
4.5
Typical of Korines utopias, its simultaneously beautiful and pathetic, and virtually indistinguishable from a dystopia. Cinema Scope
4.5
Is Spring Breakers a party movie Yes, but that party is a raging kegger, and its happening amidst the ashes of Western civilization. Bad Ass Digest
3.0
It is a parade of bare breasts, writhing bottoms and street gang exhibitionism, tied together with a Girls Gone Wild sensibility and made by a directo .. O Canada
2.0
Currently miscast in Oz The Great and Powerful, James Franco offers an impressively shallow degree of muscular strength as Alien. Birmingham Mail
3.0
That doesnt mean, though, that Spring Breakers deserves to be broken on the nearest wheel. Herald Scotland
4.5
The ideals of freedom, paradise and the American dream pulse in a neon coloured, bubble gum scented descent into darkness The Popcorn Junkie
0.5
A kind of horrible poetry, a misogynistic pentameter measured out in iambic bikinis D Cist
1.5
Gomez doesnt venture too far from her established identity, but Hudgens builds upon a filmography of risqu performances. Digital Journal
0.0
Spring Breakers can make you feel the end of Western Civilization is nigh. Dc5
5.0
If theres a precedent, it may be The Devil in Miss Jones (1973), the pornographic film that imagines hell as a place of eternal sex and no pleasure. Commercial Appeal (Memphis ..
0.5
A pseudo shocking, recent entry in the ongoing, extremely competitive, worst movie ever made contest. Lagniappe Mobile
4.5
For apocalyptic tale candy coated in cool contemporary nihilism, theres Harmony Korines Spring Breakers, a girls gone wild story of college coeds enjo .. Ma Cleans
4.5
A wild ride of a movie, Spring Breakers finds gleeful cinematic provocateur Harmony Korine pitching a bunch of former teen starlets into a headlong sp .. Movie Talk
1.5
Spring Breakers is a crowd pleaser, although given its confounding creepiness, the crowd it pleases most is surely the forty year old filmmakers intel .. Ny Books
0.0
There are very few movies I regret having wasted my time on or are completely disgusted by. Spring Breakers is the definition of disgusting. The chara .. Jo Reviews
4.5
Spring Breakers, at 90 ish minutes, is two thirds Girls Gone Wild debauchery, and that is the stomach able part. Cosmopolitan
0.5
its spring break kitsch, these girls following the yellow stained road through Oz, with Franco as The Scarecrow, The Tin Man, AND The Lion. Movie City News
2.0
quickly descends into a pointless repetition of images and vapid dialogue.
3.0
Korine gives Spring Breakers a remarkable energy but then trips it up with a repeated leit motif that feels inauthentic and overwrought. Events Austin 360
1.5
Behind the films vacuous candy colored outer shell are ambiguous and morally challenging concepts. Bitch Media
2.0
Ultimately, Korine doesnt have much to say, but there probably isnt much to say other than Spring Break! ( Deads
4.5
This is the first time in Harmony Korines career where the world he depicts actually seems less horrifying than the one were in. Deads
4.0
Its been awhile since weve had an exploitation film this pure and unapologetic. Technology Tell
3.0
An audacious, synth pop mlange of ecstatic heaven and drugged out hell an allegory for the corruption of innocence and the fear of blossoming female s .. Shared Darkness
1.5
As transgressive as is, it never quite makes the leap to becoming transcendent of the pop culture it seeks to detonate. Moveable Fest
1.5
Its sparse narrative, following four bored to death college girls on a crime spree to spring break paradise, is elliptical, hazy and marked by recurre .. Electric Sheep Magazine
5.0
Im not sure how many glow sticks died in the making of Spring Breakers, but I am sure that it was worth it. Ask Men
4.5
Act like youre in a movie, counsels one of the interchangeable blondes. Art Forum
3.0
He doesnt spend much time parsing or intellectualizing them before he spits them back out. Filmdrunk Uproxx
2.0
Korine kills it with a Britney Spears backed montage of the pretty little gangsters protecting Francos drug trafficking turf. Gun toting teens clad in .. Final Cut On Film



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