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Among retrospective reviews, [[James Berardinelli]] wrote in 1998: "Few will argue that ''The Breakfast Club'' is a great film, but it has a candor that is unexpected and refreshing in a sea of too-often generic teen-themed films. The material is a little talky (albeit not in a way that will cause anyone to confuse it with something by [[Éric Rohmer]]), but it's hard not to be drawn into the world of these characters."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/breakfast-club-the |title=The Breakfast Club |last=Berardinelli |first=James |website=Reelviews |access-date=December 28, 2019 |archive-date=December 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229153955/http://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/breakfast-club-the |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of 7.70/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "''The Breakfast Club'' is a warm, insightful, and very funny look into the inner lives of teenagers".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breakfast_club/ |title=The Breakfast Club (1985) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=February 17, 2023 |archive-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604173528/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breakfast_club |url-status=live}}</ref> Review aggregator [[Metacritic]] assignedgave the film a [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] score of 66/ out of 100 based on 25 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-breakfast-club |title=The Breakfast Club Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=March 6, 2018 |archive-date=May 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514004243/https://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/breakfastclub?q=the%2Bbreakfast%2Bclub |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Writing in 2015, [[P. J. O'Rourke]] called ''The Breakfast Club'' and ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' "Hughes's masterwork[s]". He described the former film as an example of Hughes's politics, in that the students do not organize a protest, but "present themselves, like good [[conservative]]s do, as individuals and place the highest value, like this conservative does, on goofing off. Otherwise known as individual liberty."<ref name="orourke20150322">{{cite news |last=O'Rourke |first=P.J. |author-link=P. J. O'Rourke |title=Don't You Forget About Me: The John Hughes I Knew |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/22/how-john-hughes-made-conservatism-funny |url-status=live |website=The Daily Beast |date=March 22, 2015 |access-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503021001/https://www.thedailybeast.com/dont-you-forget-about-me-the-john-hughes-i-knew |archive-date=May 3, 2021}}</ref>
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===Accolades===
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[[Anthony Michael Hall]], [[Judd Nelson]], [[Molly Ringwald]], [[Paul Gleason]] and [[Ally Sheedy]] all won a Silver Bucket of Excellence Award at the [[2005 MTV Movie Awards]].
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==Legacy==
''The Breakfast Club'' has been called the quintessential 1980s film.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dunkleberger, Amy|date=2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZNqWBiZwCEC|title=So You Want to Be a Film Or TV Screenwriter?|publisher=Enslow Publishers, Inc.|page=73|isbn=9780766026452|access-date=October 16, 2016|archive-date=May 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503020931/https://books.google.com/books?id=AZNqWBiZwCEC|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2008, ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine ranked it at number 369 on their ''The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time'' list.<ref>[{{Cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119034539/https://www.empireonline.com/500/25.asp | archive-date=2012-01-19 |title=''Empire's'' The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.] ''|work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' via [[Internet Archive]]|url=https://www.empireonline.com/500/25.asp Retrieved |url-status=dead |access-date=August 5, 2010. }}</ref> It later ranked at number 38 on their 2014 list.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140712110816/https://www.empireonline.com/301/list.asp?page=25 ''Empire's'' The 301 Greatest Movies of All Time.] ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' via [[Internet Archive]]. Retrieved July 12, 2014.</ref> Similarly, ''[[The New York Times]]'' placed the film on its ''Best 1000 Movies Ever'' list<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080612032429/https://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.] ''[[The New York Times]]'' via [[Internet Archive]]. Published April 29, 2003. Retrieved June 12, 2008.</ref> and ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked the film number 1 on its list of the 50 Best High School Movies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/50besthsfilms2.html |title=Entertainment Weekly's The 50 Best High School Movies |publisher=[[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]]'s [[Filmsite.org]] |access-date=August 5, 2010 |archive-date=November 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101112142042/http://www.filmsite.org/50besthsfilms2.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In the 2001 parody film ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]'', Gleason reprised his role as Assistant Principal Vernon in a short scene that parodies ''The Breakfast Club''.<ref>{{cite news |author-link=A. O. Scott |first=A. O. |last=Scott |title=FILM REVIEW; Pretty in Prank: A Spoof of a Lampoon of a Satire of... |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/movies/film-review-pretty-in-prank-a-spoof-of-a-lampoon-of-a-satire-of.html |work=The New York Times |date=December 14, 2001 |access-date=March 28, 2012 |archive-date=May 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517205556/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/movies/film-review-pretty-in-prank-a-spoof-of-a-lampoon-of-a-satire-of.html |url-status=live}}</ref> To emphasize its eminent position within the canon of American coming-of-age films and its continued influence to this day, scholar Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank called ''The Breakfast Club'' "the ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' of the teen film genre".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-31287-9 |title=Actor-Network Theory at the Movies |date=2020 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-31287-9 |last1=Sonnenberg-Schrank |first1=Björn |isbn=978-3-030-31286-2 }}</ref>
 
In 2005, the film received the Silver Bucket of Excellence Award in honor of its 20th anniversary at the ''[[MTV Movie Awards]]''. For the event, MTV attempted to reunite the original cast. Sheedy, Ringwald, and Hall appeared together on stage, with Kapelos in the audience; Gleason gave the award to his former castmates. Estevez could not attend because of other commitments, and Nelson appeared earlier in the show but left before the on-stage reunion, prompting Hall to joke that the two were "in Africa with [[Dave Chappelle]]". Yellowcard performed Simple Minds' anthem for the film, "[[Don't You (Forget About Me)]]", at the awards. At the [[82nd Academy Awards]] (March 7, 2010), Sheedy, Hall, Ringwald, and Nelson all appeared in a tribute to John Hughes—who had died the prior year—along with other actors who had worked with him, including [[Jon Cryer]] from ''[[Pretty in Pink]]'', [[Matthew Broderick]] from ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]'', and [[Macaulay Culkin]] from ''[[Home Alone]]''. In 2012, the [[Nickelodeon]] television series ''[[Victorious]]'' had their own spoof on the film, in the episode titled "The Breakfast Bunch".
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