How to Talk to Girls at Parties

"[A] dud (...) Utterly inexpressive (...) The dialogue in 'How to Talk to Girls' is a stray series of limp noodles. Scenes meander, sit there, fizzle out." 

"There's too little narrative cohesion or persuasive subtext to make this much more than a low-budget folly that's outre without always being terribly interesting." 

"[It] regularly hints at shrewd ideas lurking beneath its flamboyant surface. It doesn’t land all of them, but Mitchell and co-screenwriter Phillips Goslett deserve credit for trying to make such an absurd high concept work as well as it does." 

"What an extravagantly muddled, borderline incontinent film this is. You might call it genre-hopping, except that this would imply some degree of intent and control (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" 

"With next to no plot up his sleeve, Mitchell falls back (...) on an awful lot of petulant screaming (...) Identifying the point is assuming it ever had one (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" 

"Without the script’s deft control of the tale of rebellion and romance at the film’s heart, these would be no more than enjoyable sideshows (...) But work it does: it’s all a bit mad, but ultimately rather moving."