All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

"A partly smart, mostly dumb addition to the teen horror sweepstakes..."

"Flaunts its knowledge of classic genre fundamentals but fails to do anything very clever or surprising with them."

"However smart its conceit... the film is still about dumb, vulgar, witless teenagers being led to the slaughter."

"Levine and screenwriter Jacob Forman don’t seem to know quite what to do with their title character, who’s neither a fleshed-out human being nor an unattainable fantasy..."

"Amber Heard turns in a fun genre performance that stands out against such a dusty backdrop."

"Mandy Lane feels bogus and compromised: an unreconstructed horror romp in the guise of a nerdish intellectual."

"All the Boys Love Mandy Lane drifts awkwardly between popcorn entertainment and angsty mood piece."

"The hormonal realism to the performances and a laid-back run-up give the film a fairly legitimate feel for adolescence."

"While some of the kills are sufficiently clever and gnarly, Mandy Lane is never particularly frightening."

"Too dumb for the arthouse, but too smart for the mall multiplex, the movie satisfies, paradoxically, precisely because it doesn't deliver on expectations."