Too dumb for the arthouse, but too smart for the mall multiplex, the movie satisfies, paradoxically, precisely because it doesn't deliver on expectations.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2013

Levine has fun with the genre, but he's found more interesting movies to make since. "Mandy" isn't quite dandy, but it's a cut above average.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2013

"Mandy" is a sturdy little slasher film, nothing more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2013

While some of the kills are sufficiently clever and gnarly, "Mandy Lane" is never particularly frightening. And the twist at the end raises the wee issue of character motivation-or lack thereof.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2013

There's a slightly nasty twist to some of the violence, with an air of school shooter menace ultimately creeping in as the group's tormentor is revealed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2013

A slightly artsy attempt to revive the teen slasher movie, "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" drifts awkwardly between popcorn entertainment and angsty mood piece.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 11, 2013

Despite moments of black comedy and some memorable images, this 'debut' doesn't offer a lot to love.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2013

It doesn't reinvent the genre, but it is a strong addition to the canon of films that fuse teenage anxieties of the body and social interaction with blood-soaked storytelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2013

Writer Jacob Forman takes the possessive male gaze to its violent extreme. Mandy isn't much of a character, and that's the point.

| Original Score: C | Oct 10, 2013

Despite early promise for a semi-interesting examination of teenage obsession, the film devolves into a standard, and not thrilling, body-count builder.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2013

Not nearly thoughtful or incisive enough to subsist on thwarted expectations alone.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 10, 2013

Imbued with a sense of constant calamity that is never a surprise, the movie becomes the same slaughterhouse of clichés it pretends to poke fun at.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 9, 2013

For a film about the evils of peer pressure, this nonsensical thriller sure wants to play with the cool kids ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2013

It's a time trip worth taking, with moody lensing and a suspenseful script (by Jacob Forman) that offers more than just the usual bloodbath.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2013

However smart its conceit or inviting its photography and music cues, the film is still about dumb, vulgar, witless teenagers being led to the slaughter.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2013

Here's a case where the backstory is more interesting than the movie.

| Original Score: C | Sep 4, 2013

As it is, Mandy Lane feels bogus and compromised: an unreconstructed horror romp in the guise of a nerdish intellectual.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Like far too many modern horror films, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane flaunts its knowledge of classic genre fundamentals but fails to do anything very clever or surprising with them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2008

All the boys might love Mandy Lane -- discerning horror fans, however, will not.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2008

A thoroughly derivative, boringly ordinary affair in desperate need of a hockey-masked psycho or razor-gloved ghoul to liven things up.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2008