Spring Breakers

"Described by the Hollywood Reporter as "porn-pulp" and nominated for top honours at the Venice Film Festival, 'Spring Breakers' follows four college girls on a decadent spree of partying and crime as they head off on Spring Break. A diverse range of talent assembles for this blend of arthouse and exploitation: James Franco, former Disney starlets Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, and filmmaker provocateur Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo)."

"Attractively fizzy... but remains pretty toothless titillation by its writer-helmer's standards."

"Brave, brash and exhilarating, but lacking the insight and impact of the Korine-scripted Kids (1995)."

"It's campy and comic at times, but Korine also gives the film a downbeat, melancholic edge, with voiceovers, pointed repetition of dialogue and images, and hallucinatory camera work, sound and editing."

"A gonzo, outrageously funny party that it takes a while to appreciate that this is more of a horror film than a comedy."

"Korine bounces back like a man possessed, rekitted as some 21st-century Russ Meyer."

"The movie is an arty lark of ambiguous entertainment value, pulsing with melancholy."

"James Franco smashes it out of the park as Alien, a cornrowed, dental-grill-sporting Kevin Federline-a-like."

"Has hypnotic visual style and a dense, driving soundscape. But it's also too monotonous and thematically empty to be seriously provocative."

"A lurid, luminous teen-bender movie, as ludicrous as it is stylish, and Harmony Korine's best film in years."

"A candy-colored fever dream is the most unforgettable movie of the year so far."

"Lush and exuberant and gives [Korine's] admittedly brilliant eye its fullest expression to date."