A film that examines teens through a fair-minded lens, seeing them as regular people with real-world feelings and their own complexities... And while it still feels very much like a 1980’s movie, it has a grounded human quality that never ages out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2025

A surprisingly mature teen film about negotiating the transition from teen to adulthood, anchored by a seminal John Cusack performance whose Lloyd Dobler has rightfully become an icon of the genre.

| Apr 11, 2023

Cameron Crowe’s film helped graduate the ‘80s teen romance into a new level and decades later these are still characters and relationships that carry meaning for all of us and our own insecurities about love and economics.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 3, 2022

Even though there are some unexpected leaps in the plot, the emotional genuineness wins out.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 7, 2020

A nuanced and masterfully written script

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 25, 2019

What makes Crowe's film worth seeing...is the writer's care in developing characters and situations of infinitely greater credibility than those which litter 99 percent of today's adolescent screen romances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2019

Say Anything is an easy film to like.

| Apr 14, 2017

Cameron Crowe's graduation-speech homilies are given an effervescent sincerity by John Cusack.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2015

Cameron Crowe creates a beautiful film filled with uncertainties and paints romance as horrifying, but an experience that's also very much worth it.

| Feb 15, 2014

Maybe it's because I saw Lloyd as a borderline stalker. Maybe it's because Diane was too aloof to really take seriously as a person you could have a deep relationship with... In any case, I can see why people love this movie, but I really didn't.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 27, 2011

A gem of a coming-of-age story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Say Anything was a singularly three-dimensional teen romance after a decade of broad gags and breakfast-club stereotypes in John Hughesland.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 19, 2009

One of the very best teen movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2009

Cusack and Skye's relationship develops nicely and believably, but Crowe has not written an entirely convincing character for the latter to play.

| Jul 17, 2007

Rewarding if slightly off-beat, and genuinely funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2007

At last, a teenage love story with real characters instead of cliches, poses, and attitudes.

| Jul 17, 2007

John Cusack has unwittingly become Generation X's romantic screen icon.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2006

An unforgettable romance about a modern-day knight in shining trenchcoat who will do anything to win the girl of his dreams.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Great dialogue, dead-on performances from all three leads, Cusack, Skye and Mahoney, a nice romance, cool soundtrack and some funny lines.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 12, 2006

he love story is as old-fashioned as the jokes are old hat, but Crowe's amusing script and unforced direction allow the actors to develop reasonably authentic characters from stereotypical roles.

| Feb 9, 2006