--- title: Clueless: Read TIME's Original Movie Review description: The movie was released on July 19, 1995 canonical: https://time.com/3951790/review-clueless-anniversary/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-17T16:00:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:07:11.485Z article:section: History og:title: Read TIME's Original Review of 'Clueless' og:description: The movie was released on July 19, 1995 og:url: https://time.com/3951790/review-clueless-anniversary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55fe31a0cbb073e3/69885a4d428a9ebef5cce18b/clueless.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Movie Poster For 'Clueless' og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read TIME's Original Review of 'Clueless' twitter:description: The movie was released on July 19, 1995 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55fe31a0cbb073e3/69885a4d428a9ebef5cce18b/clueless.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read TIME's Original Review of _Clueless_ ## Video: 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes [Watch (HLS stream): 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tfrXo5zL.m3u8) (5:21)  _Published 2014-02-12. Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. No Intermission._  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jul 17, 2015 4:00 PM UTC  Poster for the movie 'Clueless,' 1995. Poster for the movie 'Clueless,' 1995.Buyenlarge / Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jul 17, 2015 4:00 PM UTC It was exactly 20 years ago this weekend, on July 19 of 1995, that the world met Cher, Dionne and Tai—but, if you were going by TIME’s review of the movie back then, you might have been like, _whatever_. Though critic Richard Corliss praised Alicia Silverstone’s performance as a “giddy delight” and writer-director Amy Heckerling’s endearing touch with “loosey-goosey comedy,” his overall takeaway was that the plot-driven moments between jokes were dragging down the film: --- > “” --- But, Corliss concluded by asking, would that really affect whether audiences would enjoy the movie? 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