A steamy, provocative teen drama with improbably high stakes that you really shouldn't watch with your parents. Or your kids. Or your step brother.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 19, 2024

Rings false and cynical.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 21, 2024

Though it’s utterly devoid of upright morals and wholesome characters, there’s something amusing about how dastardly and conniving the two leads can be.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 8, 2023

The result is not completely satisfactory, but it entraps you with its temerity to see just how far it will go. [Full review in Spanish]

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

A slick and rancid update of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, not nearly trashy enough to be more than mildly amusing.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 2, 2022

A black comedy of manners (or romantic comedy/drama) relocated from 1780s France to 1990s USA, directed by Roger Kumble.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 10, 2021

Gellar's hambone Machiavellian turn is so utterly fearless and showy that there really isn't a single scene of the film that she's in that isn't completely delightful.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 13, 2020

With a sharp script and even sharper acting, it's a pleasure to watch this sexy game of chess unfold.

| Apr 13, 2019

20 years later, you can see the charm that made Witherspoon a star, appreciate Blair's comedic splendor, and recognize that Phillippe was handsome and is also in this movie.

| Mar 27, 2019

Cruel Intentions is a crass, shocking, somehow delightful film that takes the teen movie of the late '90s and turns the sex, deceit, and offensiveness to 11.

| Mar 26, 2019

Cruel Intentions is a 90s cult classic with impeccable performances by all of its leads and a film that has been talked about since it first debuted in 1999.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2019

An erotic, raunchy, and deliriously campy drama...

| Mar 22, 2019

Cruel Intentions is a stretch for all concerned, including the targeted audience, one that pays off handsomely--and works for older moviegoers as well.

| Mar 21, 2019

At this infantile level of appraisal, I suspect that Ms. Gellar and Mr. Phillippe may have a harder time next summer than last.

| Mar 21, 2019

The cruelest intentions of this film are aimed at its audience, who gets only lame comedy and unconvincing drama as it wallows in its sordid subject matter.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Mar 21, 2019

Our fascination with this tale has always derived from its cool portrayal of utter amorality, which Kumble and his cast nicely energize with their heedless, youthful intensity.

| Mar 21, 2019

The misbegotten Cruel Intentions serves up great glittering gobs of cheap, without the thrills.

| Mar 21, 2019

Director and writer Roger Kumble serves up a delicious feast of piquant evil one-liners which are delivered superbly by Geller, on great form, and the suave Phillippe.

| Mar 21, 2019

It's easy to see why the director thought his Cliff Notes approach to literature would work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2019

Despite all the prurient dialogue, director Roger Kumble, making his feature-directing debut after the dubious honor of writing Dumb and Dumber , is positively bashful about actually showing anything remotely sexy.

| Mar 21, 2019