The Breakfast Club (1985) - Critic Reviews - Page 2 of 2

21-38 of 38 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Variety Staff (1,156) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Jul 2007

Does director John Hughes really believe, as he writes here, that 'when you grow up, your heart dies.' It may…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Jul 2007

Comes to the comforting conclusion that they're just as alienated, idealistic, and vulnerable as the baby boomers of the 1960s…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for DVD Clinic (72) on 11 Nov 2005

Equal parts funny, smart and sincere, it's a movie that delved a little deeper into the teenage psyche and came back with something more challenging…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 21 Aug 2004

Offers a breakthrough portrait of the pain and miunderstanding which result from demeaning social hierarchies set up by teenagers…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Brian Mckay (336) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 18 Mar 2003

Decent Brat Pack movie, but not the best. Anthony Michael Hall is hilarious as usual. Chicks cannot hold de smoke . . . dat's what it is…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Kevin N. Laforest (610) for Montreal Film Journal (589) on 09 Sep 2002

It's extremely insightful, and pure fun all the way. There might be better movies, but few are as cool as this one…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Shay Casey (101) for Film Written Magazine (27) on 08 Sep 2001

It's easy to see why The Breakfast Club appeals to teens - it understands their problems, sympathizes, and tells them that, no, it's not always…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Aug 2001

The Breakfast Club doesn't need earthshaking revelations; it's about kids who grow willing to talk to one another, and it has a surprisingly…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 11 Jan 2001

For all its contrivance, it's lively and amusing and occasionally disconcerting in its reproduction of what life was like in the mid-to-late teens…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 01 Jan 2000

Eminently watchable and consistently entertaining...It has a candor that is unexpected and refreshing in a sea of too-often generic teen-themed films…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 01 Jan 2000

The Most Meaningful of all the John Hughes teen movies…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Bill Cosford (281) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 06 Jan 1997

Comes to the comforting conclusion that they're just as alienated, idealistic, and vulnerable as the baby boomers of the 1960s…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Simon Crook (112) for Empire (3,446) on 20 Aug 1995

Hughes has made funnier (Ferris Bueller) and better (Pretty In Pink), but this is the only one you could get away with calling iconic…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Richard Corliss (1,032) for Time (1,811) on 11 Aug 1995

Before lapsing into the land of the insipid,…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Elvis Mitchell (489) for The New York Times (9,847) on 18 Jul 1995

The five young stars would have mixed well even without the fraudulent encounter-group candor towardS which The Breakfast Club forces them…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 08 Nov 1993

Does director John Hughes really believe, as he writes here, that 'when you grow up, your heart dies.' It may…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Ty Burr (2,612) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Nov 1992

From the neon-sign opening titles to the derivative angst of the dialogue, it's a touchstone of '80s pop culture, and a schizophrenic one, too…

Read Review

Review of The Breakfast Club (1985)

By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Feb 1987

Before lapsing into the land of the insipid,…

Read Review

Page 2 of 2

More reviews of this movie:

Perhaps you were looking for:

Molly Ringwald - Top 5 movies:

Anthony Michael Hall - Top 5 movies:

Paul Gleason - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

Metal Skin

1994

57%6 Reviews

Heavenly Creatures

1994

76%629 Reviews

Meet the Robinsons

2007

67%841 Reviews

Tsotsi

2005

74%482 Reviews

American Psycho

2000

77%974 Reviews

Bean

1997

60%512 Reviews

TMNT

2007

58%716 Reviews

Cool Runnings

1993

71%432 Reviews

Thumbsucker

2005

67%543 Reviews

Breakfast on Pluto

2005

71%550 Reviews

The Virgin Suicides

2000

75%621 Reviews

Y Tu Mamá También

2001

79%753 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

Logan

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Breakfast Club

1985

79%875 Reviews

Once Bitten

1985

56%299 Reviews

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

1991

44%653 Reviews

Labyrinth

2012

62%620 Reviews

Parenthood

1989

75%603 Reviews

Cast Away

2000

77%822 Reviews

Shrek the Third

2007

59%868 Reviews

Jacob's Ladder

1942

64%617 Reviews

Forgetting the Girl

2012

55%18 Reviews

Deadpool

2016

78%1,333 Reviews