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Once a year, St. Petersburg is awash with thoughtless, unpleasant people making poor decisions. This spring, Korine is one of them.
An authentically cracked expression of the crazy, conflicting signals bombarding today's teenagers.
Korine gestures toward social criticism, but essentially this is just an hour and a half of bongs [and] beers... thinly dressed as Natural Born Killers.
Having fun has rarely felt this dangerous.
... 'Spring Breakers' is a gas to look at and to hear, and it's easily Korine's most successfully sustained work."
A half hour, four hours, two days after walking away from it you might still flashback to its seductive, neon-lit, dayglow world.
There are very few movies I regret having wasted my time on or are completely disgusted by. "Spring Breakers" is the definition of disgusting. The characters had no substance and the storyline had nothing to offer.
An audacious, sun-kissed nightmare that folds the director's familiar flair for the surreal into a narrative framework that results in his most coherent (and accessible) picture to date.
it's spring break kitsch, these girls following the yellow-stained road through Oz, with Franco as The Scarecrow, The Tin Man, AND The Lion.
Spring Breakers is a scathing indictment of a generation led to believe that being a bad-ass and having a screw-it attitude is admirable. It's an all-around stunner.
A divisive work of art, Spring Breakers is an audacious, yet enthralling and even transcendent, portrait of maturity sprouting from a place of corruption and avarice.
Ultimately, Korine's latest proves a pointless trip through spring break hell.
Harmony Korine's remarkable fifth feature is like nothing the US maverick has ever done -- or anyone else, come to that.
...Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers will leave you simultaneously cold, afraid, aroused, filthy, bemused, and wholly unsettled, bleeding and masturbating, half-conscious, at the bottom of a pit full of Bud Light and marijuana residue.
Korine gives Spring Breakers a remarkable energy but then trips it up with a repeated leit motif that feels inauthentic and overwrought.
Such a perfect object of its cultural moment - an age of sexualized youth and stylized violence - that it's a shame it's not a better movie.
So is Harmony Korine telling a cautionary tale or just trying to shock the squares? Why not both?
Korine kills it with a Britney Spears-backed montage of the pretty little gangsters protecting Franco's drug-trafficking turf. Gun-toting teens clad in string bikinis passing for high art? Indubitably.
The nonstop cutting suggests the attention span of a monkey on meth.
With all of its gun sucking, constant references to Britney Spears, and overall dirtiness, you'll feel like you'll need a hot shower and a penicillin shot after viewing Spring Breakers.
It's a sleazy, snoozy, borderline insufferable motion picture. If you see the film, just know that you'll probably have to register as a sex offender afterwards.
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