The Lost Boys: Critic Reviews

92%

MovieWeb: 8 reviews

77%

RottenTomatoes: 42 reviews

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Caryn James New York Times (Top Critic)

Full Review » 8 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

An exhilarating hybrid of horror and suburban comedy.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

It starts slow, but finishes fast with some clever plot twists. In the end, all is not lost with these boys.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

When everything is all over, there's nothing to leave the theater with -- no real horrors, no real dread, no real imagination -- just technique at the service of formula.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

A horrifically dreadful vampire teensploitation entry.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Afsheen Nomai Common Sense Media

60

Scary '80s vamp film. Older teens only.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

40

It hasn't aged well. At all.
Full Review » 2 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

63

Despite its flaws, however, the film is an interesting addition to vampire cinema.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Film4

A hugely enjoyable picture that proves Joel Schumacher really can direct and that not everything about the 1980s was awful.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Walter Chaw Film Freak Central

75

The picture affirms that the only thing truly important is this image of the older brother with his arm around the younger.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews

63

With its cool cast and classic kiss-off ending, The Lost Boys will forever be a cultural touchstone of '80s cinema. [Blu-Ray]
Full Review » 4 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

60

Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

Directed with a cavalier disregard for intelligibility, this has to be one of the most anaemic vampire flicks ever made.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS)

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness

Did I mention both Coreys are in it?
Full Review » 7 years ago
Empire Magazine

80

A supremely watchable example of something the '80s did right.
Full Review » 8 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

80

The movie may not offer a lot in the way of serious frights or even originality, but it is most definitely weird and decidedly funny.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Staci Layne Wilson Horror.com

A coffinload of DVD extras to sate your Lost Boys bloodlust!
Full Review » 8 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Eric Lurio Greenwich Village Gazette

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Sarah Chauncey Reel.com

40

Full Review » 8 years ago
Rebecca Murray About.com

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Pete Croatto Filmcritic.com

40

The Lost Boys is not a movie you want to put in a time capsule or even revisit, unless your name happens to be Corey.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ryan Cracknell Movie Views

80

Full Review » 9 years ago