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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40Time OutTime OutWriter-director Austin Chick throws in echoes of Abel Ferrara's feminist grindhouse classic "Ms. 45," but the provocation feels hollow and the stylish direction - filled with pensive slo-mo - just slows things down.
- 38New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartThis female revenge thriller starts out promisingly, but squanders its girl-power capital quicker than you can say "Rihanna."
- 33The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayLaLiberte is the best thing about Girls Against Boys. She has an unforced coolness, even when Chick sticks her with sub-Quentin Tarantino business, like having a conversation about the nutritional value of Captain Crunch, or singing along to not one, but two Donovan songs.
- 30New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis pseudo-punkster hybrid of "Heathers" and "Thelma & Louise" loses its way almost immediately, veering from wannabe-shocking social indictment to stultifyingly obvious yawner.
- 25Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerEssentially a horror movie in which the source of the horror shifts from capital-M men to crazed lesbianism.
- 10The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMen are pigs, and women are sick of it, says Girls Against Boys, a dumb, dreary, let's-get-back-at-them slasher in which pulverized genitals pass for feminist critique.
- Girls Against Boys is some odd male fantasy of what female revenge might be like, sexy and enigmatically charged rather than haunting or scary or even just weird.
- 10Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe obligatory lesbian kiss is checked off like a box on a clipboard, but the B-horror standbys that might rescue the film from self-serious tedium are nowhere to be found.