Overall Heckerling has perfectly captured the essence of Austen's comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2022

This movie is satirical. And hysterical.

| Mar 16, 2021

Silverstone's read of Cher -- not to mention her overflowing cup of cuteness -- makes the character likable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2021

Heckerling's sharp eye for the wallpaper of high school life -- a background strewn with nose-job bandages, preternaturally baggy pants, cell phones -- and her sharp screenwriter's ear for teen-speak make Clueless rich, affectionate fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 16, 2021

In a summer of great thrillers and action pictures, the comedies have been few and feeble. But Clueless stands out as a picture that's both funny and a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2021

Alicia Silverstone is pure gold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2021

As to social commentary, there's more and better of that in any of those Frankie-and-Annette beach-party movies of the '60s. Which is to say not much.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 16, 2021

Like an Evian atomizer spray, Clueless refreshes for a few seconds, then evaporates without a trace. Heathers-strength satire, it ain't.

| Mar 16, 2021

"Toothless" would be a better name for Clueless.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2021

For all the gloss and bubbly good humour, Heckerling establishes a truthfulness to Cher's teen dilemmas that is Anally quite poignant. Great fun.

| Mar 16, 2021

Heckerling has filled the screenplay with snappy and perceptive comments on today's pop culture.

| Mar 16, 2021

Brains, youth and a fearless fashion sense can take you pretty far in this heartless world of ours. Clueles possesses all these priceless attributes plus a weightless sense of humor and a matchless heroine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2021

Clueless' script is a treat. And because Heckerling knows just where the jokes are, her direction is dead-on as well, with every actor in the extensive cast both understanding and responding admirably to the material.

| Mar 16, 2021

A smartly written and immensely enjoyable comedy of teen manners set in and around Beverly Hills High School.

| Original Score: 2/3 | Mar 16, 2021

After firing its opening shots, the movie settles for frivolity, not satire. The film could be better, and it could be much worse.

| Mar 16, 2021

Ms Heckerling does not just forgive, she obviously adores Cher, just as Austen adored Emma. The filmmaker must even have attended night classes in Beverlyspeak to get the insane lingo right.

| Mar 16, 2021

Scratch below the shiny exterior, though, and what emerges is something altogether more clever, as much a sharp, satirical parody of the affluent as it is hip, sassy entertainment dressed in designer labels.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2021

This is essentially a one-joke movie, but it is an enjoyably witty one, packed with vignettes of middle-class teenage lifestyles without resorting too much to video-style musical interludes.

| Mar 15, 2021

While Miss Silverstone guides Cher through the witty costume changes that serve as character development, she's backed up by a solid supporting cast.

| Mar 15, 2021

Clueless is no "Monet" (translation: looks fine from a distance, but really a mess up close). It is put together well and rarely pauses long enough for one to dwell on its minor shortcomings.

| Mar 15, 2021