Order a pizza and learn about Cuba in an all-time teen comedy classic by Amy Heckerling and scripted by Cameron Crowe.

| Mar 6, 2023

In the perfect wheelhouse of teen movies: Sexually frank, right up to the inclusion of an abortion subplot, but not too crass or exploitative. (40th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2022

The movie ends up with no clear identity; it doesn't work as anything.

| Aug 15, 2022

40 years on, Heckerling's film is as iconic as ever. Fast Times...features no shortage of stand-out characters and memorable moments, but where the film truly excels is how refreshingly candid it is about sex, dating and abortion.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 4, 2022

The best of the racy teen comedies perfectly preserves the fashions and attitudes of the ’80s.

| Jul 30, 2022

Fast Times at Ridgemont High broke down the barriers for Hollywood to tell teen stories to teen audiences.

| Feb 8, 2022

Here is a portrait of modern high school life that speaks lightly but truly to the fears and trials of post-Watergate teens.

| Nov 10, 2021

...an erratic yet ultimately rewarding endeavor that deserves a place among Hollywood's very best high-school movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 17, 2021

The comedy quotient just doesn't cut it - in fact, it's odd that this is always considered a comedy when it's the dramatic material that resonates more strongly.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 14, 2021

In many ways, Fast Times at Ridgemont High defined a generation of young Americans, excited about the future and what life may hold for them.

| May 13, 2021

With a hint of fantasy and a touch of romance, this small but memorable comedy proves immensely satisfying.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 24, 2021

It's mindless, but it's well-paced.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 22, 2020

Heckerling undercuts the usual teensploitation tropes at every turn.

| Aug 11, 2017

What it doesn't have is a clear point of view, something that would make it of more interest than leafing through a high school yearbook.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2015

[VIDEO ESSAY] "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" is a remarkable outlier in the teen movie genre even if tone-deaf critics such as Roger Ebert panned the film upon its released in 1982.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 14, 2015

I'll take something like The Breakfast Club or many of John Hughes films over Crowe's characters any day.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 5, 2013

Fast Times is a brilliant, funny and often challenging examination of teenage life in the early 1980s.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 29, 2012

Teen movie is full of sex, drugs, and misbehavior.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

A cult classic.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 21, 2010

Director Amy Heckerling has failed to provide the raunch or poignancy that would interest young moviegoers, all of whom have seen American Graffiti and its 467 imitators. Ridgemont High? A nice place to visit, but who would want to transfer there?

| Mar 13, 2009