John Tucker Must Die: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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Rotten Tomatoes: 101 reviews

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Gregory Kirschling Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

17

Ostensibly, he's been caught dating three pretty girls at the same time, but, really, is that a big deal? Well, no, according to this confused female-disempowerment flick.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times (Top Critic)

40

... a dispiriting revenge fantasy engineered by three waspish Barbies against one disposable Ken.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

Full Review » 7 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

50

John Tucker Must Die is trying to be Mean Girls with a more pointed purpose, but it's less fun than it sounds.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

Despite doing its best to jiggle, giggle and ogle its way into a niche somewhere between Heathers and American Pie, it becomes just another forgettable pastiche of sight gags and pop-culture references.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

This one is like watching 100 minutes of acne.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

The title's difficult to argue with, unless it's to maintain that we'd all be better off if the film's entire roster of characters had been shot in the head at the dump, greyhound-style.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

Jeff Lowell's slapdash script is as phony as Beth's trendy animal activism, but it does offer plenty of easy laughs.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

25

Hopeful cinephiles might long for pitch-black satire a la Heathers ... but this by-the-book high school revenge comedy has the spine of a wet ramen noodle.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)

38

[A] tart-tongued mediocrity.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jessica Reaves Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

Despite its various shortcomings, John Tucker isn't a terrible movie. It just isn't terribly funny or terribly interesting, although I suspect that its intended audience won't mind very much.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

There's something mildly charming about this cheerful revenge comedy's lack of any straightforward moral agenda.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

25

There is exactly one worthwhile sequence in the movie, the bit where the trio slip him a bottle of estrogen pills before a game, transforming him into a distraught, emotionally unstable crybaby.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

40

It's not really John Tucker who must die. But we ought to lay his tired teen-movie premise to rest.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Justin Chang Variety (Top Critic)

[A] glossy, enjoyable comic fantasy ...
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

88

As tasty as a quart of s'mores, John Tucker Must Die is a slumber-party classic that belongs on the same shelf as Bring It On and 10 Things I Hate About You.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

... the movie loses its meanness in its last third, a cop-out that robs it of the reason for making it and giving it such a nasty title
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

38

... a dreary female revenge timewaster that steals from so many and returns so little.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jason Anderson Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

... it's so tediously formulaic, it never feels like more than a fourth-generation photocopy of the John Hughes template.
Full Review » 7 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

38

The jokes are obvious and unfunny, the storyline goes nowhere that's interesting or unexpected, and the only chemistry happens in a science lab.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Despite a bold and promising title, John Tucker Must Die lacks the courage of its convictions.
Full Review » 7 years ago
David Germain Associated Press (Top Critic)

Though the movie strays deep and often into saccharine country, the filmmakers treat the characters with more respect than teen protagonists normally get in Hollywood.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

0

... a timid, screamingly unfunny rip-off of Heathers ...
Full Review » 7 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

50

I didn't hate it. And I'm not even sorry to say that...
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Keough Boston Phoenix

Full Review » 4 years ago