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Avg. Critic Score: 70 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It's a celebration of young American women, finding them smarter, tougher, shrewder, more rigorous, more persistent and more honest than any movie in many a moon. Read full review

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Lutz's dialogue is consistently sharp and snappy, and the large cast forms a sparkling ensemble under Junger's adept direction. Read full review

  • 80
    Salon.com | Mary Elizabeth Williams

    What really elevates it, though, is the film's sharp wit and tender heart, both of which are conveyed beautifully by the fresh-faced cast. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The film's crank-case snappishness doesn't break any molds, but it certainly gives you a lift. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    Junger has a deft touch with light comedy such as this; he manages to keep the film's convoluted plot spinning without resorting to too much gimmickry or descending to the level of so many teen comedies. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    And yet ... gee, the movie is charming, despite its exhausted wheeze of an ancient recycled plot idea. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    If it's all very clever for a teen-age film, it also feels terribly forced. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    10 Things doesn't take much time before ditching its pitch idea in favor of a mishmash of newer formulas, never quite settling on a cogent game plan or directorial tone. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

    While the attractive cast is willing, the translation into '90s teen culture is weak -- like a clueless adult's notion of cool. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    It wimped out by blanding down the story and the characters to the point where she isn't really a shrew and he isn't really a maniac. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ Engaging but edgy update of Taming of the Shrew.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know there are a great many references to sex, even by the standards of teen comedies, and especially a number of references to male genitalia, including a boy who draws a picture on the face of another and a boy who pretends to expose himself in the lunchroom, using a bratwurst, as well as the usual teen references to who has "done it." There is a wild party, with teen drinking and smoking, and brief references to drug use. The scene in which a girl bears her breasts to a teacher is worth discussing.
  • Families can talk about how realistic the portrayal of teen life is or isn't.
The good stuff
  • rolemodels true2 Positive role models: Heroines demonstrate a very healthy attitude and strong self-esteem, defending their hearts and their bodies very capably. Kat and her father have a tough time communicating but eventually come to understand each other.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Not an issue
  • sex false3 Sex: Many references to sex. Kat flashes her breasts at a teacher as a diversion (nothing shown). Kat and Bianca's dad is an obstetrician and makes his daughters wear a fake pregnant belly before they go on dates. Senior Kat discusses a bad sexual experience in 9th grade.
  • language false2 Language: Occasional.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: One teen character gives up smoking to attract a girl. Drinking at an out-of-control high school party. Main character throws up after drinking and dancing on a table.

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