“A shockingly forthright blast of thwarted hormones.  A funny, bittersweet reminder of what it's like to be young, horny and perpetually frustrated. Alma is a great character, tough, resourceful and funny, and first-time actor Bergsholm projects an active, restless mind as well as a libido. She carries the movie with a winning combination of resilience, unaffected sexiness and gawky comic timing.”?
—Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene

"The best film about teenagers since Gerardo Naranjo’s
'I’m Gonna Explode' — smart and short and sweet as can be."
—Michael Atkinson, Time Out Chicago

"Does an admirable job of making the political personal, and of highlighting misogynistic cultural phenomena, such as 'slut-shaming,' that are too rarely confronted in narrative cinema. This the film does without devolving into a heavy-handed polemic, or abandoning its wry depiction of adolescent despair. That's a nifty feat for a feature that foremost functions as a low-key serving of cringe-comedy chuckles. "
Andrew Wyatt, St. Louis Magazine

"An engaging coming-of-age comedy that gets to the essence of adolescent sexuality with a deadpan style that brings to mind the films of Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki. A terrific, star-making performance from Bergsholm."
—Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Humorously hammers home some often-ignored truths about the effects of raging hormones on teen girls."
— Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune

“The 1980s were particularly rife with movies about sex and the teenage boy. 'Porky’s,' 'Zapped,' 'My Tutor,' 'Mischief'—they were everywhere. Now Norway introduces us to a worthy female counterpart, 'Turn Me On, Dammit!' It treads the same ground, only better, employing frank sexual themes and a healthy dose of razor-sharp comedy. Running less than 80 minutes long, 'Turn Me On, Dammit!' gets plenty of mileage out of a deeply acerbic sense of humor, and Bergsholm is terrific as a kind of Nordic cross between Taylor Swift and Juno.”
—Colin Boyd, Tuscon Weekly

"There's something wonderfully fresh — almost subversive, really — about a film in which teenage girls speak about sex and obsess over it and crave it as openly as boys. In time-honored John Hughes manner, the movie ends on a happy, reassuring note. But for a genre dominated by American movies in which girls are usually prizes or objects of lust, ‘Turn Me On, Dammit!’ practically feels revolutionary.”
—Rene Rodriguez, The Denver Post

“A rarity: a comedy about a teenage girl's budding sexuality, treated with wit and kindness.”?
—Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times

“Enormously entertaining.  Both sexy and wholesome… Turn Me On, Dammit!,… is that rare thing, a movie that says shame on sexual shame and double shame on the double standard. Bergsholm's poker-faced performance creates the effect that we are watching the misadventures of an actual teenager."
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Sensational.   An extraordinary story.  Throws the viewer straight into the world of frustrated adolescent lust.  A charming, unexpected comedy about growing up and awakening sexuality.   Bergsholm’s… unaffected performance is one of thei film’s many pleasures.”
—Julie Pike, Nylon

“An honest, raw, multidimensional portrayal of a 15-year-old girl’s sexual complexity. It’s hard to think of examples of such clear-eyed adolescent female desire in Hollywood. Adolescent sexuality as seen through Hollywood’s lens is often so goofy and anxiety-ridden that it comes off a caricature. While there are other subjects under examination in Turn Me On, Dammit!—loneliness, boredom, existential impatience—Alma’s libido is unapologetic. It’s hungry, a little bit awkward, and entirely realistic. Her erotic urges are not a manifestation for something hidden or faulty about her character. Alma's just horny.  The story of Alma, at its core, is one of a sexually confident adolescent facing a world that feels awkward about adolescent female sexuality.”
—Emma Pearse, Slate

“Charming. The credence it gives to a young female’s sexuality is definitely refreshing.”
—Miranda Siegel, New York Magazine

“Funny... and poignant without ever seeming leering or exploitative. The way salty-sweet comedy Turn Me On, Dammit! treats the hormone-addled turmoil of its 15-year-old heroine Alma (Helene Bergsholm) feels something close to revolutionary. I don't want to overburden this mild-mannered 76-minute Norwegian debut, but it's true.”
—Alison Willmore, Movieline

“Charming. The brazen honesty of Turn Me On, Dammit! sets it apart as a refreshingly confident film, giving the teenage sex comedy a much warranted human dimension. Whereas American Pie and its studio-produced kin went for raunchy laughs, Turn Me On, Dammit! goes one step further in dealing with a teenage sex drive: it takes it seriously. There are few subjects as incendiary in cinema as a teenage girl's sexual awakening. Attempts to depict it can veer to melodrama as easily as sexploitation, but with the notable exception of 2010's delightfully subversive Easy A, there are few films that can tackle the subject without over-relying on nervous laughs or gratuitous sex. ”
—Daniel Loria, L Magazine

"Bergsholm is an utterly natural and absolutely fearless star.”
—Matt Singer, Time Out NY

“A must-see for its bold, fresh style of filmmaking.   Surprising at every turn.  Jannicke Systad Jabobsen has taken the original, startling tack of presenting a young girl's desire as normal."
—Erica Abeel, The Huffington Post

“A breakthrough. A charming, wistful tale. You’ve never seen a teen coming-of-age film like ‘Turn Me On, Dammit!’ Find it and see it.”
—Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

"Jacobsen’s frank, funny but nonexploitative approach to teen libido has the feel of honest memoir, a look back at those years that recognizes, with the benefit of distance, that there’s plenty of humor to be found in even the most arduous of growing pains.”
—Ian Buckwalter, NPR

“Pulls no punches. Alma is a charming heroine, and one likely to be discovered and cherished by girls who so rarely see relatable role models on screen. Parents should be aware that this film takes a much more blunt approach to teen sexuality than the average American movie—but it’s so much sweeter, too.”?
—Elizabeth Weitzman, NY Daily News

“I can’t help but stand on a pedestal and scream to the heavens that I truly adored this film. It balances the fine line between funny and charming, cute and crude and does it with such ease that it amazed me while I was watching it.  It’s a film that really shows me that there are up and coming filmmakers we should all be looking out for.  Jannicke Systad Jacobsen is one such filmmaker. Seek this out.”
—James McCormick, CriterionCast

“TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! is the girl’s coming of age movie that Hollywood would never make.  This Norwegian movie gets away with stuff that would never slide in a slick Hollywood production. It’s totally hilarious.  Watch it.”
—Doug Barry, Jezebel

"Directed and written by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, this Norwegian-language movie packs plenty of deadpan humor and charm into its 76 minutes.   TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! is no-frills, direct, funny, touching and, though frankly sexual, it’s refreshingly free of nudge-nudge, wink-wink smirk and prudery.  Which means there probably won’t ever be an American remake starring, say, Chloe Moretz."
—Stephen Rebello, Playboy

“TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! is a poignant, exploratory journey through youthful lust and desire and perhaps moreover, a quest to learn who you are. The film balances the awkward uneasiness that comes with young romance with an openness in the dialogue between the characters that give the film a basis in reality. To say this film is a treat is an understatement.”
—Eric Shlapack, Examiner.com

“For all its sexy, sardonic, Scandinavian sweetness, TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! will likely find the most favor for its frank portrayal of adolescent eroticism, female division, which seldom gets portrayed onscreen at all, much less at this affectionately candid level. For all its frustrated ardor, the film is actually quite lovely as well as honest, treating its young characters with the kind of respect to which Hollywood teen movies seem severely allergic.”
—John Anderson, Variety

“There’s something terribly refreshing about a teen comedy where the cast is played primarily by actual teenagers. It’s even better when those characters act and feel like real adolescents, without the ridiculously exaggerated sexual sophistication of American high school comedies. Instead, writer/director Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s story deals with the real awkwardness that colors the way these kids interact with each other and confront their suddenly overwhelming sexuality.”
—Dan Walber, Spout

“This is a quirky and offbeat sex comedy that shows exceptional taste, nevertheless. Helene Bergsholm charmingly plays a 15-year-old girl whose hypersexuality forces her to fantasize about those she likes and those who just seem to be nearby. Writer-director Jacobsen catches the oddball Nordic quality of life in a small town with utter aplomb and heart.”
—Brad Schreiber, The Huffington Post

“TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! is a singularly sexy, poignant and funny tale that examines the tenuous social structure of teenagers and embraces the intricacies of a young woman’s sexuality in a way that no film in memory has.”
—A. Whitham, Whitticisms

“At turns hilarious and poignant, this small town tale of slut shaming had a dynamite cast of deadpan young actresses, and a take on pubescent horniness that left viewers giggling right through the credits.”
—Emily Rems, Bust.com

“Over the last 25 years, Hollywood has applied its tried and true formula to a countless number of high school-set movies, largely aimed at those suffering through that torturous chapter. These power-washed schools, filled with bright color pallets, emotional maturity and acid tongues, are conjured up as beyond exaggerated versions of the teenage experience. In what is a tribute to the universal misery of the high school years, a new film out of Norway, TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! does a better, and more charming job of capturing what that awful epoch truly is like.”
—Jordan Zakarin, The Huffington Post

“TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! is fundamentally a wry, affectionate small-town movie, but one that sneaks up on a genuine feminist issue. Boys Alma’s age are expected to be sex-obsessed, but a girl who yearns for action is relentlessly stigmatized, even in the context of a supposedly nurturing and tolerant social democracy. Alma escapes (very briefly) to the bohemian freedom of the big city and scores a modest victory against repression and hypocrisy, but it’s one female libertines everywhere (and their companions) can embrace.”
—Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

“For all of Alma’s anger and bleak outlook, the film maintains a perspective on events and her reactions that she can’t have. The film reveals as well a delicate sense of comedy, attuned to the acute embarrassments, social minefields, and roaring squalls of adolescence. It understands the passing fancies and worries of the teenager.”
—Chris Barsanti, PopMatters

“I can see why this won a screenplay award, the characters are well written, more than just the usual stock highschoolers that these films often rely on; and their interactions are believable, they speak and act like real teens do, as opposed to the overly exaggerated or precocious teens we are accustomed to seeing in comedy films.  It also totally captures the feeling of being stuck in a small town where everyone knows everyone and you can't wait to graduate and get the hell out.  Most importantly it also gets inside Alma's head and thoroughly explores her thoughts, desires, and motivations.  It’s rare to see a film like this based around a genuine well rounded female adolescent character.” 
—Bonjour Tristesse