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

| Jul 22, 2024

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

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

| Aug 6, 2007

Writer-director Paul Brickman can therefore be accused of trying to have it both ways, but there's no denying the stylishness and talent of his direction.

| Aug 6, 2007

Good '80's teen movie with a suitable soundtrack and the loveable Cruise displaying his new found starry confidence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2007

What distinguishes it, however, is that it's hovering permanently on the brink of stark, staring disaster in a way that strangely recalls The Graduate.

| Feb 9, 2006

It's funny because it deals with subjects that are so touchy, so fraught with emotional pain, that unless we laugh there's hardly any way we can deal with them -- especially if we are now, or ever were, a teenage boy.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

[The film] improves as it goes along.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

A movie that is part caper comedy, part suburban satire, and all Eighties.

| Mar 10, 2003