Misguided teen thriller -- don't bother.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Helen Mirren's acting stands out in this mean-spirited dark comedy like an original Picasso in a paint-by-numbers art show.

| Oct 22, 2009

Here you have a movie in which three teenagers go to a teacher's house and take her hostage. Either you go all the way with that premise, or you don't go there at all.

| Original Score: F | Sep 23, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: C | Apr 9, 2005

...a disappointingly flat piece of work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Teaching Mrs. Tingle deserves to flunk out.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The film's plot runs as smoothly as a Yugo with sand in the transmission and aside from a few well-acted moments, the film falls apart quicker than a paper mache space shuttle.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Pushes the boundaries of credibility!

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

If the movie is never necessarily boring, it also is rarely interesting.

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

Current events outraced it in ways that Williamson, who usually anticipates trends, was apparently unable to incorporate in his narrative.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

As a teen drama, it's soggy and predictable; as a thriller, it's a soggy and predictable teen drama; as a comedy, it's a soggy and predictable teen drama.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Helen Mirren makes a magnificent villain!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A wildly uneven and sloppily directed movie, full of clashing tones and undigested bits of superior films.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000

A dazzling appearance by Ms. Mirren!

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Dismal.

| Jan 1, 2000