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Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics
starstarstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstarstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
starstarstarstar J. Hoberman - Village Voice
starstarstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar G. Allen Johnson - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Elias Savada - Nitrate Online
starstarstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

“Miles beyond any comedy made in the United States for the past couple of years, though there will surely be those who don’t ‘get’ a movie this subversively funny”

- Jeff Vice

“When plotting replaces stage-setting and character development, the air goes out of the movie”

- Roger Ebert

Rushmore
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Bill Murray as an alumnus of a private school does battle with student Jason Schwartzman when they both fall for the same woman (Olivia Williams). Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox, Mason Gamble, Sara Tanaka, Stephen McCole, Ronnie McCawley, Keith McCawley. Director: Wes Anderson (1998, R)
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