Bottoms
critic Reviews
, 90% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- Propulsive and over-the-top, Bottoms is an instant high school comedy classic that feels both current and nostalgic.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreClarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
Real-life friends Sennott and Edebiri are harmonious in ways that relieve them of the need to land flat-out punchlines. Instead, they just sweat funny out of their pores.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLinda MarricThe Jewish Chronicle
Smart and very silly.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreWendy IdeObserver (UK)
Even if the scattershot plotting doesn’t quite hold together, there’s a wayward energy to the picture and a barbed sense of mischief.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreEl HuntLondon Evening Standard
In Bottoms... you’ll find more crude sex jokes than you can shake a pom-pom at. It’s also bizarrely violent.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreKevin MaherTimes (UK)
Narrative clarity is jettisoned in favour of wearisome storytelling incoherence in a queer high-school comedy that’s one of the least effective entries of the genre.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDonald ClarkeIrish Times
Think Mean Girls mashed into Lindsay Anderson’s If ... But with more sublimated high-feminist discourse. Just perfect.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJustin BrownMedium Popcorn
I thought this was hilarious and completely insane. I would have appreciated some more tender moments to provide some levity to the situation.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreBrandon CollinsMedium Popcorn
This is an enjoyable, quirky movie that has a strong first and second act with a rushed third act that had moments that didn't quite feel earned. Nonetheless, I had a lot of fun watching this!
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJessica Baxterjessicabaxter.com
It’s a smart comedy disguised as a stupid one, with a thousand jokes landing per minute and some of the *tightest* mise en scène we’ve ever scène. But even if it were just a stupid comedy, guys make those all the time. That’s the point of feminism.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreChris McCoyMemphis Flyer
Bottoms is the best high school comedy since Booksmart, and, for my money, an instant classic.
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