All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
RADiUS-TWC | Release Date: October 11, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
16
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenOct 10, 2013
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is not a missing masterpiece; rather it is a small, tightly coiled spellbinder. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 21, 2013
Levine brings a lot of visual style to “Mandy,” in addition to coaxing subdued, believable performances from his young cast. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 17, 2013
Levine shows some of the promise that would serve him so well later, but beyond an intriguing look and an initial attempt to put a new spin on the teen-horror genre, “Mandy Lane” winds up being pretty conventional. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldOct 10, 2013
The hormonal realism to the performances and a laid-back run-up give the film a fairly legitimate feel for adolescence. Read full review
60
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonOct 8, 2013
Neither disposable nor a long-lost masterpiece, she might not be loved by all the boys, but she's still worth a Friday night date. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloOct 9, 2013
Even if Mandy Lane had been released in a timely fashion, it’s unlikely that it would have found much of an audience. For all its good intentions, it’s ultimately too half-assed and lethargic to work as a conventional horror film, and not nearly thoughtful or incisive enough to subsist on thwarted expectations alone. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireOct 11, 2013
While some of the kills are sufficiently clever and gnarly, "Mandy Lane" is never particularly frightening. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 10, 2013
It clearly aspires to be something more than another story about empty-headed teenagers in a remote cabin who get picked off one by one in gruesome fashion — but at the end of the day, that’s pretty much what we’re getting. Read full review
50
Boston GlobePeter KeoughOct 10, 2013
Despite moments of black comedy and some memorable images, this “debut’’ doesn’t offer a lot to love. Read full review
50
The DissolveScott TobiasSep 10, 2013
There’s an overlay of gender politics, but it isn’t so firmly ingrained in the material that it transforms Levine’s throwback ’80s slasher film into a much nobler, more thoughtful endeavor. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatySep 4, 2013
Mandy Lane does eventually build to a whiplash twist ending, but it's too little, too late — much like the film itself. Here's a case where the backstory is more interesting than the movie. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNick SchagerApr 23, 2013
Like far too many modern horror films, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane flaunts its knowledge of classic genre fundamentals but fails to do anything very clever or surprising with them. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A partly smart, mostly dumb addition to the teen horror sweepstakes -- smart in how it neatly catches the petty, hurtful, sexy and druggy aspects of high school life, dumb in how it makes absolutely no sense once its resolution is known. Read full review
42
The PlaylistEdward DavisSep 25, 2013
A decently-shot, but otherwise largely unremarkable horror movie. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanOct 10, 2013
Despite early promise for a semi-interesting examination of teenage obsession, the film devolves into a standard, and not thrilling, body-count builder. And the “twist” ending is one of the more annoying in recent memory. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfOct 8, 2013
Who will survive the night in order to deflower her? Mysteriously, the film has a hard time functioning on even this level, introducing complications for Mandy that the actor can’t pull off, adorable though she is. Read full review
40
The GuardianXan BrooksApr 23, 2013
Mandy Lane feels bogus and compromised: an unreconstructed horror romp in the guise of a nerdish intellectual. Read full review
40
EmpireDan JolinApr 23, 2013
All the boys might love Mandy Lane - discerning horror fans, however, will not. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreOct 7, 2013
A graphically violent, sexually explicit teen horror tale, it was close to being ahead of its time, in its time. Now, it plays like a quaint, fairly obvious period piece — from 2006. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithOct 11, 2013
Drifts awkwardly between popcorn entertainment and angsty mood piece. Read full review
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ObserverRex ReedOct 8, 2013
Smutty and grotesque little sex parody. Read full review
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