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starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Tom Keogh - Film.com
starstarstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
starstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstar Jan Stuart - Newsday
starstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstar Scott Von Doviak - culturevulture.net
star Jeff Vice - Deseret News
Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online

[S]ucceeds in a modest-yet-satisfying way. In fact, it's one of the summer of 2000's few pleasant surprises

- James Berardinelli

What's the world coming to when Amy Heckerling – the one true comedic visionary of teen cinema – is responsible for the most mundane, most out-of-touch college romance of the year?

- Rob Blackwelder

Loser

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Jason Biggs plays a small-town college freshman whose roommates kick him out, and Mena Suvari is a financially strapped student being jerked around by her arrogant boyfriend/professor. Greg Kinnear, Thomas Sadoski, Art Alexakis, Zak Orth, Jimmi Simpson. Director: Amy Heckerling (2000, PG-13)

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