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100No one does this genre better than actor-writer-director Christopher Guest.
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90Waggish fun like this is too good to miss.
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90This comic jigsaw puzzle is crammed with deliriously funny little bits.
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90It's as smart, quiveringly alert and fleet of foot as a purebred pointer on the scent of fresh game.
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90Best in Show has an uproarious wild card in Fred Willard, who plays a hack commentator convinced that he's the most amusing fellow on television
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90A barkingly funny new "mockumentary" that does for those canine pageants what the helmer's 1996 "Waiting for Guffman" did for smalltown theatrics.
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90I found myself roaring at the grotesque way some of the characters talk to their pets, pausing only briefly when I realized that I do precisely the same thing.
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88Wickedly funny.
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88I was laughing so hard, tears were streaming down my cheeks.
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88This giggle does for dog shows what Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap" (in which Guest plays Nigel Tufnel) did for heavy metal.
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88If this new film doesn't quite go to 11, it's a healthy 8½.
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83You will be surprised by the film's poignancy when the winner is announced. You may even get choked up. You will care that much.
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80Blue-ribbon acting from both the four- and two-legged performers.
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80Guest revels in the eccentricities of dog lovers everywhere, but there's kindness at his core. He's a mensch among mutts.
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80While the movie is frequently sharp and funny and weirdly relatable, the material feels too much like reality.
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80Has both bark and bite. Its low-key but sharp and amusing sense of humor is a nice fit with the frenetic world of competitive dog shows.
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80In general, the dogs-as-mirrors theme--the crazy things people do with and in relation to their pets--is what keeps this going, and the laughs are sporadic but genuine.
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78It's got enough hilarious moments that, all in all, the film's bite is as toothsome as its bark.
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78Sublimely ridiculous film.
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75When it's funny, Best is hilarious.
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75A droll piece of deadpan played with mostly unerring pitch by a talented cast.
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In terms of dramatic tension, Best in Show is more compelling than a lot of formulaic sports movies.
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75Gets blue-ribbon results from its thoroughbred cast of improvisational comics.
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75Reaches the highest comic heights when the show itself starts.
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70Guest begins -- but doesn't end -- with caricatures, then peels away at our preconceptions until we see the heart and soul beneath.
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70Tight and quick-moving, the film scores its points and gets on with it.
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70More amiable than hysterical.
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70Just isn't as fresh, focused or uniformly funny as "Waiting for Guffman."
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67You giggle every so often, but you never give yourself over to the characters.
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63For sheer laughs, Willard and Piddock take the trophy.
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63Doggone funny.
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63He's (Willard) a one-man storm of escalating inanity, and he's hilarious.
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60Best in Show succeeds only insofar as you're willing to laugh at a bunch of sad freaks.
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