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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    A glorious blend of kitsch, grit, humor and uplift. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    A charmingly loony tale of two young loners who form an unlikely bond, this droll Japanese import puts the predictable banality of most Hollywood teen flicks to shame. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    A silly, freewheeling, candy-colored lollapalooza, but also heartfelt. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    The yummy Japanese confection Kamikaze Girls deserves both a better title and an audience to go with it. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Scott Brown

    For the Western viewer, the cultural divide acts as a saccharine filter, and Kamikaze, a cult hit in Japan, becomes a mesmerizing lesson in otherness. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    It's the kind of rollicking rebel-chick flick that should score well in venues that appreciate Quentin Tarantino films. Read full review

  • 50
    L.A. Weekly | Chuck Wilson

    For this viewer, the climactic scooter-gang rumble, heavy on plot twists and empowerment speeches, felt eternal, but for many, the happy silliness of the film's first half should carry the day. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Wears out its welcome at 100 minutes, but could find an audience in the West as a latenight attraction at gay fests. Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion A.V. Club | Scott Tobias

    Nakashima does his best to keep the flimsy enterprise afloat, mostly through whooshing camera movements and headlong dives into the grotesque extremes of Japanese kitsch. By the end, the effect is like eating a bellyache's worth of cotton candy. Read full review

  • 30
    Village Voice |

    If you value plausibility in movies, skip Kamikaze Girls; this is the sort of picture where getting run over by a truck gives a character gorgeous hair instead of a broken hip. Read full review

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