Critic Reviews

• Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

  A country-club member takes a club employee under her wing in this cagey formula thriller that exploits homosexuality better than murder-mystery clues.

• Geoff Andrew, Time Out

  There's little noteworthy.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  The earnest efforts of director Mary Lambert and her cast cannot keep this languid psychological drama, set at a posh Southern resort, from seeming trite and uninvolving.

• Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail

  It's so bad that even the kids, who (let's face it) aren't a very discriminating audience, were hooting at it during an opening-day screening.

• Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

  It pretty much makes Wild Things look like Jane Austen.

• Jay Carr, Boston Globe

  The In Crowd is a J. Crew ad gone very, very wrong.

• Mark Dinning, Empire Magazine

  Stone the crows! Or is that flog the dead horse? Either way, this is cobblers.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  The In Crowd isn't a movie--it's a J. Crew catalogue. Junk mail, junk movie.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  ...if you're a fan of cat fights, you'll have it made in the shade.

• Jim Shelby, Palo Alto Weekly

  Somebody wrote this, directed this, and wrote out checks for the actors. They all have family somewhere proudly boasting that their child makes movies in Hollywood.

• Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle

  This is the stuff of good, clean, campy fun. But instead of titillating, The In Crowd is nothing but a deadly dull business.

• Luke Y. Thompson, New Times

  A story that might be enacted by a deranged and sexually confused 12-year-old girl with her Barbie dolls

• Chris Gore, Film Threat

  There was no advance screening for this movie, so I actually had to pay to see this one myself. Don't make my mistake, because I'll never see that eight dollars ever again!

• Betty Jo Tucker, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

  Lack of a sympathetic main character is only one of the film's many faults.

• Richard Horgan, Reel.com

  Nothing but a big, fat tease.

• James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

  full of attractive, listless actors who apparently couldn't get jobs on any of the WB's teen soap operas striking poses and mouthing dusty dialogue.

• Tim Cogshell, Boxoffice Magazine

  It seems to think it knows something we don't, which makes it just as obnoxious as the over-privileged, over-sexed, over-boozed world of beautiful people it deigns to let us in on.

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