Mean Girls

The comedy is funny as hell. And yes, I mean hell, not heck.Read Full Review »

Fey's comic gifts mesh with Wiseman's first-hand research, and the wit becomes dazzling.Read Full Review »

Smart, funny, well-acted and visually lively.Read Full Review »

There's a sly intelligence at work here -- in the writing, the filmmaking and the acting -- that makes it deeply pleasurable to watch.Read Full Review »

The movie is always entertaining and frequently smart about the new ground one girl will break to humiliate another.Read Full Review »

Mean Girls dissects high school society with a lot of observant detail, which seems surprisingly well-informed. The screenplay by "Saturday Night Live's" Tina Fey is both a comic and a sociological achievement.Read Full Review »

Mean Girls has the same fancifully dead-on tone as the 1995 high-school comedy "Clueless" without the sweetness because, hey, these snits are mean.Read Full Review »

A vinegary fable with a Splenda aftertaste -- is a harbinger of hope not only for future feminist comedies of any grit but also for ''SNL''-staffed feature films that don't disproportionately suck.Read Full Review »

The plot is flimsy, but director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday) trusts Fey's tart dialogue to carry the day. Wise man. Fey subverts formula to find comic gold. She's a brash new voice in movie comedy. Boy, do we need her now.Read Full Review »

Director Waters and screenwriter Tina Fey (also cast as the voice-of-reason math teacher) aim less for the usual high-gloss caricature than acutely hilarious sociology, nailing the servile malice of 15-year-old girls.Read Full Review »