Comedy lovers will appreciate Bad Teacher as one of the early pioneering movies that let women be as imperfect, shiftless and messy as the guys in a Judd Apatow movie.

| Jan 4, 2025

Any attempt to be like other teacher movies and make memorable students roles to go with the lead teacher takes a backseat to focusing on an evil Cameron Diaz and her rocking bod.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2024

The filmmakers play it safe, which is exactly what anyone seeing this movie doesn’t want.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 11, 2023

What must be one of Cameron Diaz’s last great films...

| Jun 6, 2022

It's a daring character to build a comedy around, and luckily, as good as Diaz is, she is leading a well cast ensemble.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Just a banal, boring kind of awful.

| Jan 7, 2021

Timberlake plays against type as a rather timid, bookish wallflower whose funniest scenes seem to be making fun of his reputation.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

It isn't horrible, but it also isn't anything that you need to run out and see.

| Original Score: C | Jul 11, 2020

The kind of film that sounds better on paper than it actually is - a relative comedic minefield that goes largely untapped.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Bad Teacher, the woman and the film, is just pure pleasure.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Much like one of Elizabeth's classes, there are no lessons to be learned, but this mischievous, borderline amoral little number passes the time in a surprisingly amusing fashion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2018

It wasn't ground-breaking comedy but I enjoyed it.

| Oct 24, 2017

Bad Teacher tries. There are many legitimately funny people (Jason Segel, Thomas Lennon, Lucy Punch) attempting to be funny in the orbit of Cameron Diaz.

| Aug 25, 2017

Nice try, but Bad Teacher barely scrapes a pass.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2016

Tries too hard, and seems inanely pleased with its own not very dirty jokes.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

[S]ucceeds due to the sheer determination of its towering lead performance... Diaz and her supporting cast routinely spin gold out of innocuous moments with blunt force dialogue delivery and physical determination.

| Sep 15, 2013

A raunchy unpleasant comedy that wastes its talented cast.

| Original Score: 2.0/5 | Jun 30, 2013

Cameron Diaz eats the screen up in Bad Teacher but can't withstand the enormously dim-witted script.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 2, 2013

Crass, charmless and not especially funny, Bad Teacher is like a school kid trying to be cool.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2012

In the end, despite how thinly-plotted the film is, there are several laughs to be had, and that goes a long way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2012