Justin Brown Medium Popcorn May 9, 2025 2/5

I don't know who this was for. The actors clearly committed but this movie was all over the place.

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Brandon Collins Medium Popcorn May 9, 2025 2/5

There are some interesting moments and great shots in this film, but the whole thing never fully came together for me. Harmony Korine could've used a bit more structure to make this more coherent.

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand May 6, 2023

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.

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James Croot The Post NZ Mar 31, 2023 3/5

Its juxtaposition of sound and imagery is stunning.

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Adam Nayman The Ringer Mar 25, 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...

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Sergi Sánchez Fotogramas Jul 29, 2022 4/5

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]

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Brittani Nichols Autostraddle Jun 15, 2021

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.

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Matthew Rozsa matthewrozsa.com Dec 17, 2020 1/4

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.

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Casey Cipriani Bustle Nov 18, 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...

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 24, 2020 3.5/4.0

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

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Brent McKnight The Last Thing I See Jul 9, 2020 B+

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

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Tom Meek Cambridge Day Apr 6, 2020 3/4

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

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Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine Aug 14, 2019

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

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C.J. Prince Way Too Indie Jun 22, 2019

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

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 8, 2019 4/4

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.

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J. Hoberman The New York Review of Books Mar 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.

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Daniel Green CineVue Feb 13, 2019 4/5

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.

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Jo-Ann Titmarsh CineVue Feb 2, 2019 3/5

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

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Stephen Saito Moveable Fest Dec 17, 2018

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

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Jennifer Heaton Alternative Lens Nov 1, 2018 3/10

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

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