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46 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100IndieWireRafael MotamayorIndieWireRafael MotamayorBottoms is an ambitious sophomore feature from a director who is just getting started, one that can craft both a hilariously surreal teen sex comedy and marry it with one hell of an eye for action sequences.
- 91The Film StageJake Kring-SchreifelsThe Film StageJake Kring-SchreifelsWhat would a high school movie look like if its queer characters ended up as jock-slamming, hierarchy-upending heroes? Bottoms is this year’s righteously indignant, big-swing answer.
- 90Rolling StoneDavid FearRolling StoneDavid FearWhat Seligman, Sennott and Edebiri have given us is nothing less than a Heathers for this generation. It hits you, and it feels like a kiss.
- 90VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanBottoms is unlike any high-school comedy you’ve ever seen. It’s a satire of victimization, a satire of violence, and a satire of itself. It walks a tightrope between sensitivity and insanity (with a knowing bit of inanity), and it’s full of moments that are defiantly what we once used to call incorrect.
- 80Paste MagazineAurora AmidonPaste MagazineAurora AmidonWith the help of Sennott, who co-wrote the script, Seligman squeezes every ounce of humor out of each of the film’s thoughtfully-crafted scenarios—for better or worse.
- 75The PlaylistJason BaileyThe PlaylistJason BaileyOnce you get on this one’s wavelength, it’s wildly funny and delightfully subversive.
- 70Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonAs she did with Shiva Baby, Seligman shows a keen eye for her characters’ mortification, albeit without her previous picture’s precisely modulated discomfort. By design, Bottoms is a broader, more outrageous comedy, and unfortunately the jokes are not as cutting.
- 70TheWrapTomris LafflyTheWrapTomris LafflyPerhaps it’s not quite the teen movie to define a new generation, but it’s one that gets at something unique about female rage and drive, gifting its young viewers a reset button and a release outlet, however imperfect.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe jokes keep coming, but without a meaningful foundation — fleshing out the motivations of the group’s members would have helped — they start to wear thin.