Kids
Miramax | Release Date: September 1, 1995 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
7
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireClark Collis
Without a doubt, hard hitting and thoguhtful, but Clarke's style here (as it would continue to do) hints at something altogether more disturbing. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
If Kids is simultaneously engrossing and detached, observant and just plain showy, that may be because the film is so caught up in trying to be a statement that it never develops its characters beyond their rowdy, bellicose facades. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Kids isn't a cure, it's a symptom of mercenary moviemaking. Some will call it heroic, but that's just a smug synonym for exploitation. [25 Aug 1995, p.9]
50
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
They have created a strange document about the unmaking of young lives, but it is a movie made without comment. Clark has stepped back into objectivity so far that he has neglected his role as interpreter for us. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Kids is more tedious than titillating, one of those cinematic irritations more interesting to read about than to see. Read full review
40
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The tone is relentlessly sordid, the view of these pubescent hedonists so hermetic, that the film-makers' 'honesty' seems exploitative and sensational. The film may not say anything new, but the way it says it does, in the end, make it some sort of landmark. Depressing. Read full review
40
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Unlike Clark's extraordinary books of black-and-white photography, Kids is stunningly anti-erotic, though not untainted by sensationalism. By condensing all this inflammatory material into a 24-hour time frame, Clark and 19-year-old screen-writer Harmony Korine create an overwrought narrative that's sometimes tedious in its relentlesshess. Read full review
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