Beneath the hip, lip-glossed surface of this devastatingly witty black comedy lurks a serious satire on peer-group pretensions and other teen movies.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 31, 2024

Roughly the first two-thirds of Heathers is sharp and illustrative. Finally, though, it lapses into teaching the audience a moral, that good ultimately triumphs over evil.

| May 9, 2023

With so many classic quips, is it any wonder Heathers has long been regarded as one of the best high school movies ever made?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2022

If it could've just given one f**k less, it would've been a masterpiece.

| Jul 1, 2020

Ryder brings such honesty to her high-camp role that you actually believe a kid like this could exist. And, astoundingly, you think you might actually like to meet her.

| Sep 6, 2019

...an erratically-paced yet ultimately rewarding endeavor...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2019

Even bigger, brasher, brighter and more vicious than the decade it satirises, though sadly "Heathers" failed to make Very happen. It's a blunt satire, though still effective, still coruscatingly funny - and scarily prescient.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 10, 2018

A pointless satire on high school coeds acting bitchy and hanging out in cliques.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 31, 2018

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, what's so striking about the incisive and Machiavellian comedy is how fresh it feels.

| Oct 30, 2018

This nails the '80s high-school experience, then blows it up for good measure. More fun than a game of strip croquet. Now that's deep.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 5, 2018

Mostly this is gleeful nastiness crafted with jagged irony and with a captivating performance by Winona Ryder at its centre.

| Aug 15, 2018

Still shocking after 30 years... this definitive blast of teenage nihilism is strong medicine indeed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2018

If there's a weakness of motivation in Heathers, it may be because the whole film is rather dream-like, a product of Veronica's fevered writing and imaginings, with a consequent chaos and interchangeability of roles.

| Aug 10, 2018

Heathers really is odd, like a mix of something by Stephen King and Bret Easton Ellis...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2018

'Heathers' still pulses with the visceral thrill of getting away with something - both on- and off-screen.

| Jun 18, 2016

After Columbine, this dark comedy isn't as funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Heathers locates the emotional totalitarianism lurking in a prom queen's heart.

| Aug 31, 2010

A super-smart black comedy about high school politics and teenage suicide that showcases a host of promising young talents.

| Aug 31, 2010

Heathers, with all its flagrant masochism and violence, is a throwback to a more innocent time, where such films could be made and still be deemed over the top fantasy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2010

... the film paints high school as a veritable hell where the only way to alleviate suffering is by making others suffer more.

| Aug 11, 2008