Neither good enough to impress as a meta mashup of horror and comedy, nor bad enough to hoot and throw popcorn at, it slides into a gray area of unfocused ideas and unrealized potential.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 26, 2012

It breaks the mold and burns the roadmap, fearlessly pushing boundaries and going into nonsensical corners most films and filmmakers wouldn't even dare of traipsing through.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2012

There will be young moviegoers who proclaim this genius, and more stodgy audience members who find it torturous. If you're not tweeting and texting a combined 50 times or more per day, you're probably in the latter camp.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2012

Here's another sardonic look at the hell of the American high school, where countless American filmmakers believe our souls are locked no matter how long it's been since we graduated.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2012

Exhausting before its first few minutes of whip-pans, smash cuts, coarsely self-referential jokes and on-screen text visuals is over...

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 12, 2012

In this universe people seem composed of 1 percent water and 99 percent '90s references and genre expectations.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 12, 2012

Resembles a movie less than it suggests an evening of determined, incoherent channel-hopping - with the help of a remote control that's apparently stuck on "random."

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 12, 2012

The movie itself is never truly clear. If it's also never intentionally bad, its unintentional badness keeps blasting into shockingly clever places.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2012

Some viewers will be understandably put off by its aggressive lack of focus, but Kahn is so excited about cramming in every idea that ultimately the originality trumps the obnoxiousness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2012

Detention suffers from a giddy overabundance of ideas rather than a dearth.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 12, 2012

The whole thing comes off like 200 commercials smashed together, selling you your own obsolescence.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 10, 2012

It's one of the most obnoxious movies ever made.

| Apr 10, 2012

Joseph Kahn funded this sharp looking, ultra low-budget indie with his own savings, and you get the feeling that he's going for broke in every sense.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2012

What starts as a bracing rush quickly devolves into a deadening assault of stimuli.

| Apr 1, 2011

ADHD take on the teen comedy incorporates slasher comedy and pop-culture obsession, and will entertain those it doesn't alienate.

| Mar 19, 2011