Yahoo gave it a favorable 8/10 stating, "It’s not screeching bleak, cold truth at its intended viewers or dryly reciting statistics but serving it to them it in an oddball manner that draws as much from the era of
YouTube &
TikTok as it does from that less-than-golden era." Morbidly Beautiful wrote of the film: "If the unique and unsettling “Cuddly Toys” doesn’t haunt you long after viewing, there may be merely stuffing where a beating heart should be." Swamp Flix gave a 3/5 review, writing, "...I can’t totally dismiss the bratty outsider-art feminism of this D.I.Y. bombthrower. (...) Despite ostensibly being structured as an academic lecture, it also does a good job of avoiding direct moralist instruction, both by muddling its Feminism 101 talking points with shocks of edgelord irony and by intercutting its testimonials and re-enactments in a deliberately messy, experimental editing style. Somewhere in all its shock-value leering of underage sex & misogynist violence, there’s an earnest, soul-deep interest in the inner lives of American teen girls, recalling
Lauren Greenfield’s portraiture of Californian teens in the 1990s." == References ==