This is an exercise that is in love with its own superficiality, delighted with an emptiness that was all it ever aspired to, and yet it manages to turn into a better movie than it has any right to be.

| Jan 3, 2018

Not for kids, and not for many adults, either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Actually I quite enjoyed the movie--but how do I get rid of this awful discharge?

| Feb 11, 2008

The leads and their accomplices look dead glam, but it's never clear whether their vacuity is a deliberate strategy. Certainly Avary's style seems all for instant gratification.

| Jun 24, 2006

Not a bath, after sitting through this hyperactive mess of a movie I'm not sure I'll ever be able to take a bath again, but getting clean will definitely still be a priority.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

A breathtaking story told in breathtaking style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2003

A disagreeable and unrewarding expose of what spoilt college students get up to in expensive New England colleges.

| Apr 20, 2003

This is fiercely original and seriously funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2003

A callow adaptation of a callow novel.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 19, 2002

Ellis' satire, filtered through Avary's harsh lens, is hard to stomach, harder to ignore.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2002

An empty tale.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Oct 19, 2002

The bulk of Rules comes off like a cool-hand poser's at the wheel.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2002

A party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 17, 2002

Avary's crisp adaptation imbues the copious bad sex and general befuddlement of Bret Easton Ellis's solemn, echt '80s Bennington novel with a playfully obnoxious energy that is often funny and ... almost fun.

Full Review | Oct 15, 2002

I hated this movie.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2002

The kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 13, 2002

Oddly compelling.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2002

Feels more like a walk across campus than a movie.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2002

The Rules Of Attraction is not just a bad movie, it's a profoundly depressing one.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 11, 2002

While he and his capable cast do their best, even decadence gets old if you have nothing else to offer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2002