House Party 1990

Critics score:
96 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Vincent Canby, New York Times: All of the performances are good and the soundtrack pulses with humor as well as decibels. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: There's a lot more energy and social reality in this picture than one is accustomed to finding in teen exploitation movies; the cutting is often dynamic, and Hudlin generally does a good job of keeping things moving. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: House Party is silly and high-spirited and not particularly significant, and that is just as it should be. Read more

Time Out: Clearly this is no masterpiece, but as its US reception indicated, it is a product overdue in the market, and it compares well with its anaemic counterparts. Read more

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Hal Hinson, Washington Post: House Party isn't a great movie, but it's heartfelt and enormously winning. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: [It's] fast-moving, never dull, extremely funny, and manages to touch, with lighthearted (and R-rated) profundity on almost every youthful issue you can imagine, including police harassment, teenage sex, the all-too-easy road to jail and alcohol drinking. Read more