Mini's First Time 2006

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Mini's First Time is Bret Easton Ellis territory with palm trees, explored by smarmy blunderers. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: The swirl of bad girl shenanigans, Hollywood satire and noir-ish melodrama in Mini's First Time that was intended to make for an icy cocktail of prurience and moral insight tastes more like freezer burn instead. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Guthe is so anxious to show us what a larcenous tramp Mini is that he never shows us any other sides to her. We have her pegged from the get-go, even if no one in the movie does. Read more

James C. Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Mini is too tame for Skina-max and too inane to survive on the art-house circuit. It's a pretentious erotic thriller that gives honest trash a bad name. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: A comedy that's a mix of Mean Girls, Mamet and Mephistopheles. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Mini's First Time is not about taking an honest look at adolescence. It's not even really about teens, or high-school life, or upper-class marriages. What it's about is an unpleasantly pervy adult male view of teenage girls. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Mini has a cleverly devious wrap-around ending, but you have been warned: It's twisted. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: Part of Mini's charm... may be in its single-minded devotion to the utterly depraved and comically debauched. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, Village Voice: Mini is impossible to like, especially since she delivers some of the worst narration ever spoken, and her final lines are like a big middle finger to viewers foolish enough to enjoy the film. Read more