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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisRemarkable as much for its insights as for its audacity, The Dirties approaches school violence with a comic veneer that slowly shades into deep darkness.
- 90Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangLos Angeles TimesInkoo KangA masterful blend of black humor and queasy dread.
- 80Village VoiceZachary WigonVillage VoiceZachary WigonMatthew Johnson's The Dirties explores high school violence from a refreshingly original angle.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Dirties is as provocative as it is sloppily messy in its themes.
- 60EmpireEmpireLike Chronicle, it's a fresh spin on the high-school flick. Unlike Chronicle, its execution never quite matches its ideas.
- 50The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayUltimately, all the metafictions and social commentary are too vague to have any meaning, beyond giving Johnson a foundational justification for this movie. But while The Dirties is in some ways appalling, it’s also effective.
- 42The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorThe message, like the filmmaking, seems fuzzy and unfocused.
- 20Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfTechnically cruddy and tiresome in its we’ve-seen-a-lot-of-movies dialogue.
- 20VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThis sloppy, button-pushing black comedy reveals a crew desperately in need of counseling — less in anger management than in the fundamentals of screenwriting, camerawork and structure.