With a confident irony that never robs its characters of their integrity, Heckerling takes Clueless into a realm that both comments on and inhabits the teen movie archetype, so that what’s left goes beyond the genre’s conventions and builds upon them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 7, 2022

Overall Heckerling has perfectly captured the essence of Austen's comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2022

Adult spectators won't watch it, and the Cher's of society will never understand its irony. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 7, 2022

Clueless was not as annoying as I had expected and actually had its share of hilarious moments.

Full Review | May 13, 2022

As it is, you might just go postal over the witty lines.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 25, 2022

One might not expect an adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma to be just so... pop. Clueless is exuberant, funny, loving, and delights in the possibilities of its title.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2021

Writer-director Amy Heckerling has pulled off an amazing sleight-of-hand by turning a story full of vacuous, overindulged California teen-agers into a light-hearted comedy of manners.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2021

A funny but too often saccharine sweet look at Beverly Hills adolescents.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2021

This movie is satirical. And hysterical.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2021

Silverstone's read of Cher -- not to mention her overflowing cup of cuteness -- makes the character likable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2021

Heckerling's sharp eye for the wallpaper of high school life -- a background strewn with nose-job bandages, preternaturally baggy pants, cell phones -- and her sharp screenwriter's ear for teen-speak make Clueless rich, affectionate fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 16, 2021

In a summer of great thrillers and action pictures, the comedies have been few and feeble. But Clueless stands out as a picture that's both funny and a lot of fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2021

Alicia Silverstone is pure gold.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2021

With its silly but cute clothes, its vacant Valley vocabulary and flashes of satirical humor about family values in upscale Los Angeles, Amy Heckerling's Clueless comes across as smarter than you might think.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2021

As to social commentary, there's more and better of that in any of those Frankie-and-Annette beach-party movies of the '60s. Which is to say not much.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 16, 2021

Like an Evian atomizer spray, Clueless refreshes for a few seconds, then evaporates without a trace. Heathers-strength satire, it ain't.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2021

Silverstone's performance is simultaneously witty and natural. sweet and acerbic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2021

Barbed satire gives way to a pedestrian tale of teenage romance. The result is mildly entertaining, but not what's been promised

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 16, 2021

The only reason to see Clueless, the new film from writer-director Amy Heckerling, is to drink in the beguiling screen presence of its young star, Alicia Silverstone.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 16, 2021

It's a watchable bit of fluff, that has enough moments of comic inspiration to qualify as a decent teen date movie in a summer that hasn't exactly been chock full of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2021