Somebody please nominate James Franco for some sort of award. His character of Alien in Spring Breakers was perhaps the most entertaining character we saw all year.

| Aug 13, 2024

It’s Bonnie and Bonnie and Bonnie and Clyde with Day-Glo color, teen exhibitionism, and gangsta street violence, with a pop music score and a hip-hop mixmaster soundtrack and editing style.

| May 6, 2023

Its juxtaposition of sound and imagery is stunning.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2023

Whether [it] is a great movie or an uncommonly accomplished bit of fraudulence is an eye of the beholder thing, but there’s something to be said for a film that somehow captures and enshrines an era’s attention-deficit aesthetic...

| Mar 25, 2023

Korine uses Gomez and Hudgens like Godard used Fonda in Tout va Bien: Symbols the film flips to its favor and against... they become sympathetic [fast] and turn into superheroes that seem to have escaped a white trash Barbarella. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2022

Is it social commentary on today's young adult culture? I don't see how. Is it satire? I surely wish it was. Instead this was an earnest try at something...I don't know what.

| Jun 15, 2021

Alien is the only character in "Spring Breakers" who feels like an actual human being; everyone else is just there to be ogled over or used for shocking imagery.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 17, 2020

Spring Breakers also features James Franco at his absolute smarmiest, but the neon ambiance by director Harmony Korine's make this a definite recommendation...

| Nov 18, 2020

Surrender yourself to a rather dark yet brilliantly entertaining view of the spring break experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

Harmony Korine's take on a modern sexploitation movie about bikini girls with machine guns in the vein of a Monte Hellman flick.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 9, 2020

[Harmony] Korine, per usual, doesn't take the well-trod path, and the results are more than pleasantly surprising.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 6, 2020

Before the long, the movie turns into a numbing trailer for itself.

| Aug 14, 2019

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is a visual delight. The 95 minute film feels like one giant montage that never ends.

| Jun 22, 2019

Finds transcendence in trash, wallowing in the basest instincts of human nature to create a mesmerizing and frightening portrait of a world gone mad and innocence destroyed.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Spring Breakers is a crowd-pleaser, although given its confounding creepiness, the crowd it pleases most is surely the forty-year-old filmmaker's intellectual fan base.

| Mar 8, 2019

Blazing a vicious, narcissistic trail straight through the eternally sacred 'American Dream', Korine has reaffirmed himself as one of his nation's most challenging, uncompromising talents.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019

This is Korine's trick: he pulls the audience into the decadence of Spring Break before exposing its soulless underside.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2019

As transgressive as is, it never quite makes the leap to becoming transcendent of the pop culture it seeks to detonate.

| Dec 17, 2018

No character, no real sense of narrative, no meaningful message. It's just terrible, shallow people doing terrible, shallow things.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Whether you love it or hate it, it's going stay with you.

| Oct 29, 2018