Risky Business is entertaining and though would never have worked outside its release era, there’s still many laughs to be had.

| Nov 13, 2024

What the f---!

| Original Score: B | Sep 2, 2024

From Screwballs to Hardbodies, the eighties were jam-packed with inane teen sex comedies -- rest assured, Risky Business is not one of them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 1, 2024

It displays an aesthetic maturity and patience uncommon to the teen sex film that was starting to blossom at the time of its release.

| Jul 23, 2024

Is the film a satire of consumerism or an example of it? It’s both and the better for it.

| Jul 22, 2024

If The Graduate and The Apartment had a 1980s baby...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2023

Very much a product of its Reagan-era time, Risky Business’ inherent sexism and boys’ own adventure-approach has dated rather badly:.. However, it is also a rare film of its ilk that actually comes with consequences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2023

It’s sexy, smart and funny, but also stylish and filled with social satire and commentary on the culture of money. Under the sexual fantasies is an anxiety about sex and success and a superbly cynical portrait of capitalist enterprise...

| May 6, 2023

... Reminiscent of The Graduate in its slick satirical tone and its way with words.

| Oct 24, 2022

...a distressingly erratic comedy that's far too slick for its own good...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2020

Risky Business, a movie about a nice boy losing his virginity, is a first-time director's clear failure that I normally wouldn't get belligerent about, but the picture is so confused, so strange, and so openly corrupt that I can't resist.

| Dec 31, 2019

As adolescent adventures go, Risky Business is an invigorating, first-class affair: It manages to make coming of age a witty proposition.

| Jul 31, 2013

Writer/director Paul Brickman has honed a sharp satire on American go-getting here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

A capitalist wet dream; one that we have long since woken up from screaming.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2009

For writer/director Paul Brickman, this was a case of being in the right place at the right time and, perhaps most importantly, getting the right leading man in place.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2009

It's easy to forget the idiosyncracies of a film that so successfully trades on adolescent male fantasies and nightmares. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2008

De Mornay does sterling work as the helpful hooker, but this is Cruise's big chance, and he relishes it, putting in a believable and likeable performance.

| Apr 1, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2008

Seeing [Cruise] so baby faced is the biggest surprise, but his talent was definitely visible.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2007

One of the finest film explorations of the end of innocence.

| Aug 6, 2007