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35 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 29
  3. Negative: 14 out of 29
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    80
    The most progressive, good-hearted studio film of the summer.
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    75
    Never comes alive.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Marc Caro
    63
    Loser is anemic.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    Doesn't quite rank with the films that bracket Heckerling's pop-culture high priestess status
  5. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    62
    Along the way, we end up losing patience with our couple-to-be because they seem too smart to endure the indignities ceaselessly heaped on them.
  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    A sweet-natured and refreshingly uncartoonlike look at the trials of an unworldly Midwestern college boy negotiating his freshman year at NYU.
  7. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kim Morgan
    58
    The script is atypically bland for Heckerling.
  8. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    Love is blind, and movies about that blindness can be maddening.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    Feels like a college knockoff of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment."
  10. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    50
    She may not be the most cinematic of film artists, but Heckerling will make you smile.
  11. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    An arthritic failure, genuine only when the two outcast lovers' eyes dart toward each other, then retreat.
  12. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    What do you call a filmmaker who thinks imitating a screen benchmark can make up for emotions that are evading her actors -- Clueless.
  13. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    50
    Well-meaning but hopelessly lost little comedy.
  14. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    40
    It's a nice, friendly kind of love, but hardly an inspiring one.
  15. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Charles Taylor
    40
    The bitterness of her new comedy, Loser, comes as a shock. It's not a mean-spirited movie.
  16. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    38
    A listless, disjointed collegiate opposites-attract comedy.
  17. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    30
    Squeak(s) by to make Loser justify the price of admission.
  18. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    30
    Heckerling fails to crack the outer shell of the story and its key relationships.
  19. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    A second-rate romantic comedy.
  20. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    30
    Intriguing but poorly executed ideas are the basis of this not entirely unappealing romantic comedy.
  21. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Susannah Breslin
    30
    Loser sucks.
  22. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    25
    Loser is just as it sounds.
  23. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    20
    It's too easy, but here goes: This movie's a Loser. Sorry.
  24. Film.com
    Reviewed by: John Hartl
    20
    In short: Don't expect a lot of laughs.
  25. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Jan Stuart
    20
    Formulaic new teen opus
  26. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    20
    In the end, Loser disappoints.
  27. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    20
    This tepid comedy-drama is, lamentably, aptly titled.
  28. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Sean Means
    10
    Gets my vote for the summer's most offensive movie.
  29. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Jeff Giles
    10
    A disappointingly slack, hackneyed comedy.
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