Fey does not take the book too seriously, finding plenty of cruel humour in the bitchy battles between Cady and Regina.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2024

Tina Fey, who also plays Cady's maths teacher, has packed the screenplay with enough barbed one-liners to ensure that, as high-school comedies go, Mean Girls is near the top of the class.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2024

This wickedly funny, dead-on portrait of teen cruelty is leavened by an amusingly executed plea for human kindness and non-conformity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2024

There is a plot, but it's a distant second to the movies elaborate pecking order.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 10, 2024

Perhaps most remarkably, Mean Girls manages to be funny without wallowing in condescending clichés concerning either grown-ups or teens and without resorting to the usual gross-out-gags.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2024

Neither as evil as Heathers nor as shocking as Thirteen, Mean Girls takes elements from both and dilutes them to come up with a movie that’ll appeal to geeks and prom queens alike.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2024

Mean Girls contains more than its share of recognition laughs for students, teachers and parents -- all of whom take turns as targets of the humor.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 9, 2024

The writing is witty; the satire is timeless. Mean Girls could be done in period costumes and still strike a very familiar chord.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2024

Yet another title in the long list of mediocre teen-conspiracy films.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 9, 2024

Mean Girls escapes relatively unscathed thanks to the presence of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, who form the central core of the movie as rival teen queens.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2024

Mean Girls is likely to be the smartest comedy you'll see this year. That it's also humane and slightly outraged shouldn't feel like a bonus -- it's more like a religious revelation.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 9, 2024

One of the movie's achievements is persuading the audience to stay firmly in Cady's camp during her odyssey of self-discovery.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2024

This teen comedy is terrific. Superbly scripted by Saturday Night Live head writer Tina Fey, it explores the viciously divisive cliques that render the American high school a virtual battleground.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2024

The casting of Lohan makes the film even stronger. She brings a sweetness to the role that works both when she is the outsider and when she is lured to the dark side of the high school food chain.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 8, 2024

Mean Girls offers an enjoyably mean-spirited spin on a subject that most other recent movies... have treated as sacrosanct.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 8, 2024

Luckily, Fey and director Mark Waters put enough tricks up their actor's designer sleeves to keep the in-flights, back-stabs and flirtations from seeming like moldy oldies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2024

With its sharp social critique and Fey's broad-ranging styles of humor, Mean Girls transcends the current glut of Cinderella teen films. It's a film that will make older viewers remember their own high school days, and all the traumas that entails.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2024

It comes on strong with sharp, biting wit and great energy, then runs out of steam and doesn't know when to call it quits.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 2, 2024

One or two good acerbic jokes apart, Mean Girls isn't mean at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2024

Bitchy and funny, Mean Girls is a wicked treat.

Full Review | Jan 2, 2024