Lessons about social responsibility are submerged in a bubble bath of innocent glamour; Amy Heckerling's Clueless looks like a mordant social satire by comparison.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 4, 2014

Under the circumstances, Anjelica Huston and Lukas Haas manage not to embarrass themselves, but only because they're pretending to be in a different movie.

| Mar 7, 2007

The film's sole purpose is to promote, with chilling lack of irony, Hilary Duff's own brand of perfume -- oh, and there's her single as well.

| Mar 3, 2007

Messy, patronising and tonally confused, this vanity project - timed to co-incide with Hilary Duff's perfume launch - quite frankly stinks.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2007

Haylie and sister Hilary Duff just don't have the comedy stylings to sell this half-baked story of heiress sisters battling to save their dad's cosmetics empire from ruin.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2007

The villain (a greedy corporate man of some sort) isn't very fleshed out, but it's hard to believe that he's any worse than the two self-serving, appearance-obsessed protagonists, with whom the film asks young girls everywhere to identify.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 2, 2006

[It] isn't some light send-up of materialism. It's a light endorsement of it.

| Original Score: D | Aug 26, 2006

It's not Clueless, just clueless.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 23, 2006

An incompetent spin on the poor-little-rich-girl story, the film involves a lot of wardrobe changes and product placements, and a smidgen of intrigue and some chaste romance.

| Aug 21, 2006

It succeeds on its own terms. These days, even pre teens live in a material world.

| Aug 21, 2006

Even by the low standards of the genre it represents, this female teen comedy represents a new nadir.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2006

It's sort of reassuring that although Madge has seemingly given up starring in bad movies, her company is still financing terrible scripts.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 21, 2006

The scariest part of Material Girls comes when you're sitting in the dark theater and start considering the possibility that young women might find these characters sympathetic.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 21, 2006

Maybe Immaterial Girls would have been a more appropriate title.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2006

There's a happily ever after ending complete with cute new boyfriends. But on the way there, the movie has a surprising number of inapprpriate and ugly choices considering the target audience and the PG rating.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Aug 19, 2006

You might remember it from May when it starred Lindsay Lohan and was called Just My Luck.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 19, 2006

A superficial tween comedy that mocks celebutantes like the Olsen twins while simultaneously pushing stars Hilary and Haylie Duff as their replacements.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Madonna's anthem was only good-naturedly arrogant, but the SoCal twins, like the film's script, are arrogant, ghastly immature and offensive to any audience that isn't all of the above.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Nonsensical from the get-go, the girls' fish-out-of-water routine grows interminable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Paris and Nicky Hilton exhibit more character nuance. And they're vaguely more entertaining to watch.

| Aug 18, 2006