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www.slantmagazine.com - : cheeky neo-noir that updates Double Indemnity for the high school set, Mini's First Time trades in black humor so dim you'd need a flashlight to find it. Mini (barely legal Thirteen sexpot Nikki Reed) lives the neglected life in the Hollywood Hills with her slutty, alcoholic mom Diane (Carrie-Anne Moss) and her lawyer stepfather Martin (Alec Baldwin), so bored with being parentally mistreated and so driven to acquire new experiences (''firsts'' she calls them) that she matter-of-factly launches a career as an escort. It's a set-up without a set-up, Mini's decision to become a whore as ridiculously abrupt as her personality is absurdly phony, the teenage vixen self-possessed and self-consciously conniving to the point that her femme fatale routine comes off as mere caricature. more...
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efilmcritic.com - : High school vamp Mini (Nikki Reed, an actress whose name and talent too closely resemble Tara Reid) despises her alcoholic failed actress mother (Carrie-Ann Moss). Because rebelling against a dependency suffering tramp takes some effort, Mini devotes her time to coming up with outrageous new experiences to try. She calls them “first times” which gives us the not-in-the-least-bit-subtle title. Mini nude jumps out of a cake at her own birthday party and from there moves on to high class prostitution. On her first night she’s set up with her father-in-law (Alec Baldwin). He’s so taken by her that he’s easily convinced to help drive mom insane with drugs and pranks so they can be together in their endearing, borderline incestuous lust. Murder, a doggedly dedicated detective and predictable plot twists follow. more...
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