The parallel seductions serve to show the audience that male sexuality is predatory and female sexuality is passive and victim-based.

| Dec 17, 2020

Kids is stunningly anti-erotic, though not untainted by sensationalism. By condensing all this inflammatory material into a 24-hour time frame, Clark and Harmony Korine create an overwrought narrative that's sometimes tedious in its relentlesshess.

| Feb 16, 2018

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Frightening, frank and serious, a wake-up call to the world.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

None of the advance hype on Kids can prepare you for the raw, stripped-down reality that Larry Clark captures in his astonishing first film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Kids, a disturbingly voyeuristic look at adolescent promiscuity, is virtually child pornography disguised as a cautionary documentary.

| Jan 1, 2000

Kids is the kind of movie that needs to be talked about afterward.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Ostensibly about the banality of youthful evil, Kids is simply about its own banality.

| Jan 1, 2000

Kids is an emotional sucker punch, a raw, dirty, disturbing piece of cinma vrit filmmaking that simultaneously hooks and repulses you from its opening scenes.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 28, 1995