Real-life friends Sennott and Edebiri are harmonious in ways that relieve them of the need to land flat-out punchlines. Instead, they just sweat funny out of their pores.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2023

Smart and very silly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2023

Even if the scattershot plotting doesn’t quite hold together, there’s a wayward energy to the picture and a barbed sense of mischief.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2023

In Bottoms... you’ll find more crude sex jokes than you can shake a pom-pom at. It’s also bizarrely violent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2023

Narrative clarity is jettisoned in favour of wearisome storytelling incoherence in a queer high-school comedy that’s one of the least effective entries of the genre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2023

Think Mean Girls mashed into Lindsay Anderson’s If ... But with more sublimated high-feminist discourse. Just perfect.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 3, 2023

Sorry, where is the comedy in this comedy?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2023

We haven’t come a long way since Superbad (2007), except for the welcome twist that gay girls get to dominate in this ensemble. Trouble is, the relationships don’t make sense, and the film’s recourse to violent slapstick feels lazy, not liberated.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2023

It all plays like a moderately scuffed-up and entirely non-heterosexual version of Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart – though no one in this film shows the smallest interest in books, certainly not the teachers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2023

An incredibly silly, sapphic, gloriously weird high-school satire. Bottoms’ ultra-knowing tone might be a struggle for some — but it’s hilariously rewarding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2023

Bottoms is a boisterous and biting teen comedy that’s very on-the-nose and over-the-top about high school being a violent hellscape of social hierarchies and skin-tingling horniness.

| Sep 8, 2023

Just gather your nonsqueamish WLW friends and go see Bottoms immediately.

| Sep 5, 2023

I kind of loved it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2023

Yes, "Bottoms" is well worth seeing. And, yes, it is the funniest movie of the year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2023

I loved every twisted, hilarious minute of the violent high school comedy “Bottoms” because, as I’ve told you more than once, I’m a sicko.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2023

This movie is insane. It's intense and absurd, but also deadpan in a surreal kind of way. It exists within what seems like a recognizable high school setting, but is totally heightened in bizarro ways that remind me of Heathers.

| Aug 31, 2023

“Bottoms” is the kind of go-for-broke, satisfying cult treat that can totally beat up your favorite teen classic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 31, 2023

... Its tone tends to wander. But its go-for-broke nihilism is admirable, even if its execution is hit or miss.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 30, 2023

I’ve got your back-to-school viewing assignment right here in this queer, dark-comedy send-up of films such as “Superbad” and “American Pie.”

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2023

The jokes are constant and unforced. At a brisk 92 minutes, Bottoms moves the entire time.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 29, 2023