A lot has changed between the generations, but Reality Bites asks a question that anyone, of any age, will find familiar: what happens when the life you were promised isn't the life you got?

| Aug 3, 2019

In a picture full of painful moments, it's hard to decide on the lowest point.

| Aug 3, 2019

Written with verve and played with grace, Reality Bites is too smart to pass itself off as a definitive statement, but it gets the details delightfully right.

| Feb 15, 2018

Ryder and Hawke bring crucial authenticity to their roles with effortless appeal. You'll find yourself wanting more of these characters than the movie gives you.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2013

However conventional Reality Bites resolves to be, it is always engaging. Best of all, Ryder has her greatest role since Heathers, once again proving herself a seriously funny young actress.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2013

It's a good example of an anti-establishment comedy crippled by a seeming desire to infatuate the establishment itself. What Reality Bites needs most is a good bite. From reality.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2013

Among the movie's strengths are the performances, especially that of Ryder, who comes across as bright, beautiful and more delicate than ever before.

| Mar 27, 2013

When the movie is over, you don't feel as if you had shared the experience of a new generation; you feel puzzled and vaguely crummy, as if you had just read a solemn news-magazine cover story about it.

| Mar 27, 2013

Yearning, hilarious, lost within their precocious self-awareness, these slackers have soul.

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

A surprisingly sweet romantic comedy debut from Ben Stiller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2008

Although it never became the definitive document of Generation X, Reality Bites is a touchstone for anyone just out of college and stuck with more ideals than job prospects, not to mention a head full of bad-온라인카지노추천 trivia.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2007

In 1994, the novelty of seeing a romantic comedy written and directed by, as well as starring, people in their early 20s made for a certain freshness, but after a point this 'youthfulness' consists of little more than 온라인카지노추천 references.

| Aug 7, 2007

Reality Bites begins as a promising and eccentric tale of contemporary youth but evolves into a banal love story as predictable as any lush Hollywood affair.

| Aug 7, 2007

There's probably a moderate little romantic comedy crying to get out here, but the film's vain striving for casual hip proves suffocatingly obtrusive.

| Feb 9, 2006

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

Like the generation it presents so appealingly, it doesn't see any point in getting all bent out of shape and overambitious. But it knows how to hang out and have a great time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

What unwritten law prevented the makers of Reality Bites from observing that their heroine can't shoot video worth a damn, that their hero is a jerk, and that their villain is the most interesting person in the movie?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The story may not be new, but it is as fresh as the film's new faces.

| Jan 1, 2000

[Childress and Stiller] encapsulate an era.

| Jan 1, 2000

I guess if we have to have another movie about the angst-ridden twenty-something Gen X-ers, Ben Stiller is the guy to do it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000