Election
User Score
8.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 40 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 43
  3. Negative: 3 out of 43

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  1. ZsuzsaB
    Oct 10, 2004
    10
    Fantastic movie, which is able to show our real, sad world in a very funny way.
  2. BlancoA.
    Apr 3, 2001
    9
    What a great edge this movie has. It came out about 6 months before "American Beauty," and it's better in my opinion.
  3. DavidO.
    Oct 5, 2002
    10
    Great movie, but I felt that the movie could have just have easily been about the moral backsliding and loss of ethics in the world of student politics and cut out the explicit sexual material. However, the sex was much smarter than in the American Pie movies.
  4. GaborA.
    Feb 28, 2006
    9
    One of the best comedies...movies of all time. Hits the nail right on the head over and over.
  5. MichaelC.
    Feb 3, 2001
    9
    Anyone who said this movie was "dumb, dumb, dumb" is likely to be dumb dumb dumb themselves. This is a classical dark comedy everyone should see.
  6. Claydoh
    Aug 1, 2001
    10
    Very funny.
  7. JonathanH.
    Apr 2, 2004
    10
    Shockingly smart teen movie that takes you to an unexpected place.
  8. [Anonymous]
    Dec 5, 2007
    9
    Great movie. Hilarious. I thought Kevin Kline was surprising good.
  9. KS
    Apr 26, 2007
    10
    This movie was great, and really gives a good view of the bigger picture-American elections and middle class society.
  10. RyanM.
    Aug 15, 2001
    10
    Great in every way, it's an amazing high school movie that brings a new meaning to originality.
  11. J.RyanG.
    May 29, 2005
    10
    One of the most underrated films of all time, this is the modern standard for showing the interiors of American high schools and how the apathetic following through the motions can reach a fever pitch and make some people go crazy. One of the great movies about institutions of any variety and the people who feel (and may just be) trapped inside.
  12. Enan
    Aug 23, 2010
    10
    Rigged: Routines and Dreams in Alexander Payneâ
  13. Greatbeallo
    Feb 19, 2012
    9
    This movie is so great and unique! I am not particularly fond of Matthew Broderick, and he is really detestable in this movie, but he plays a douche bag to perfection. Reese Witherspoon is also on point. Seriously, this movie is an unusual treat. I can't really compare it to anything else I have seen.

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Metascore
83 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 33 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    90
    Election is a bracingly intelligent adult comedy that shrewdly captures adolescence.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    The screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, sees the lives of these suburban students and teachers through a prism of absurdity that refracts more truth than any straightforward telling.
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  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    100
    The satire of the season, a hilarious, razor-sharp indictment of the American Dream.
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