80 Film Threat | Brad Laidman This could have been an unmitigated disaster, but Hughes' way with the material ensured it a special place in the heart of just about everyone who happened to be in high school while Ronald Reagan was President. Read full review
78 Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten Before lapsing into the land of the insipid,... John Hughes actually made a few movies that shined some light on the trials of modern adolescence. The Breakfast Club is one of them. Read full review
75 The Globe and Mail (Toronto) | Jay Scott For all its contrivance, it's lively and amusing and occasionally disconcerting in its reproduction of what life was like in the mid-to-late teens. Read full review
75 Entertainment Weekly | Ty Burr From the neon-sign opening titles to the derivative angst of the dialogue, it's a touchstone of '80s pop culture, and a schizophrenic one, too. Read full review