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starstarstarstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstarstar Sharon Pian Chan - Seattle Times
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Todd McCarthy - Variety
starstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
star Susan Stark - Detroit News
star Robert Horton - Film.com
star Jim Sullivan - Boston Globe
star Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer

Along with the expected irreverence, there’s an honest intelligence at work here that doesn’t try to paint adolescents as simply smaller and better-looking versions of their parents

- Michael O’Sullivan

There is no wit and very little humor in this alleged comedy. Instead of jokes, it dishes out an endless series of nasty humiliations

- Margaret McGurk

American Pie

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Four high school seniors make a pact that they'll lose their virginity on prom night. Jason Biggs, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Chris Klein, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Natasha Lyonne, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy. Director: Paul Weitz (1999, R)

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