10 Things I Hate About You - Movie Reviews (2024)

10 Things I Hate About You has become a cult classic in the past 25 years because it nailed the universal truth about stereotypes: there’s always more to them than what’s seen on the surface.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2024

10 Things I Hate About You — a modernized version of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew — has everything you could want from a teen rom-com.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2023

Marvelous set pieces contribute to this lively romantic comedy. You don't have to be a Shakespearean scholar to enjoy it. You don't have to be a teenager, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2023

What 10 Things I Hate About You could have used, besides a less contrived teen title, is more teen laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 12, 2023

Gil Junger's clever direction, which uses peripheral action tellingly, keeps this loose revision of The Taming of the Shrew lively throughout. But though he has engaging counterparts for Katherina and Petruchio... Kiss Me Kate it ain't.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2023

In terms of Shakespearean scholarship, "10 Things," directed with more energy than style by Gil Junger, may be but a footnote. But when they write the teen-flick book, this goes to the front of the class.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2023

Who knew that Shakespeare dude could be so entertaining? References to him abound in this messy but enjoyable movie right down to the use of a remake of Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind." But you don't have to be a fan of the Bard to like this affable film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 12, 2023

"10 Things" has trouble being one thing. It's neither Shakespeare nor John Hughes, but falls into a fizzy middle ground.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 11, 2023

Okay, I won't complain about the plot, but the dialogue is painfully witless, and there are more supposedly dramatic moments when a girl slams a door than should be legal in a 90-minute film.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2023

Smartly written, lofted into orbit by a heads-up ensemble performance, it's bursting with new talent on both sides of the camera.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2023

Balancing just the right amounts of irreverence, emotional truth and fidelity to its source material, 10 Things I Hate About You proves that Shakespeare can survive all manner of creative retellings and still resonate with joy and relevance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2023

This is the magic behind The 10 Things I Hate About You. It dives deep into the emotion that was lost in translation for many in Shakespeares’ writing and using every cinematic tool at its disposal to pull you deeper into that emotion.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 13, 2023

This is the film that introduced Heath Ledger to the world. Every time he is on screen in the film he owns it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2022

The characters, their personalities, and their situations are convincing and interesting. And even though we get occasional breezes of routine storylines, the film manages to do things a bit different and it never feels conventional.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2022

It was a fun movie...Gives a contemporary flair on a Shakespearian classic.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2022

With an energy level that can only be described as infectious, it takes almost every dated teen-flick cliche (sensitive rebels, preening jocks, distracted adults, etc.) and makes them fresh and funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2021

The script is funny and mostly charming. Really the whole thing is a fractal: I had every reason to hate this movie, and yet I found myself loving it against my will...

Full Review | Aug 14, 2020

The humor doesn't always work for me but it is extremely well cast with a clever concept

Full Review | Jun 10, 2020

10 Things I Hate About You is a sweet romantic comedy. But it is also a treatise about how young people navigate, negotiate, and balance all of the social, cultural, and personal expectations that swarm around them from all sides.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2020

[Stiles] is quite successful in the role and well-matched with Ledger.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2019