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100With its dry, throwaway humor and constant stream of chuckles, it creates its own category of stealth comedy.
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100Anderson fulfills the promise of his inventive "Bottle Rocket" with this quirky, often hilarious comedy, and Murray gives his most uproarious performance since the groundbreaking "Groundhog Day."
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100One of the freshest, richest, most original films to come out of Hollywood in a very long time.
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100Murray, meanwhile, turns in a thrillingly knowing, unforced performance--an award-worthy high point in a career that continues, Max Fischer style, to defy the obvious at every turn.
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100A work of loopy, original comic genius.
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100For me, the experience was much like seeing Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" and George Lucas' "American Graffiti" before the hype machines kicked in.
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100Stylistically fresh and full of sweetness that never cloys, this is contemporary Hollywood filmmaking at its near best.
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95The scene-stealer here is Bill Murray, who, after 25 years of near-hits, finds his most fully realized character yet.
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90It's the funniest, saddest performance of the year in a film of uncompromising wit and heart.
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90Fast, exhilarating new comedy.
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90I can't remember a teenage romance this engagingly offbeat since "Lord Love a Duck."
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90It's too smart to be maudlin.
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90A marvelous comedy from deep in left field -- immaculately written, unexpectedly touching and pure of heart.
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90Wickedly funny.
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90Rushmore is an almost indefinable genre of its own. A comedy with a menacing edge? An ironic romance? Hard to call.
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90Weird, warm, monumentally entertaining comedy.
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89Filled with brilliant, stand-out performances.
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88A true original: a film that stands apart from the crowd, goes its own way and all but dares you not to like it.
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88A weird, wonderful and funny work that stands as a true original. As if that weren't enough, director and co-writer Anderson has given Bill Murray his best role in years.
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88One of the most original, good-hearted comedies in a long time, Rushmore is the sort of movie where the strangest sequences of discords somehow keep managing to reach giddily improbable resolutions.
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80A beautifully off-center movie.
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80Battling back with droll seriousness, Murray imbues his sad-sack loner with a touching, funny dignity, and comes up with his best work in a very long time.
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80An often deft, frequently droll little movie.
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75One of the great things about this unpredictable, exhilaratingly goofy fable is how it shows that even the clueless - and the tragically morose - have a shot at redemption.
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75With the astonishingly assured newcomer Jason Schwartzman to bounce off of, Murray has his best comic foil since those feisty rodents in Groundhog Day and Caddyshack. [5 February 1999, Life, p.11E]
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70This film is the product of artists working at the peak of their powers.
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70One of the weirdest, hardest-to-place studio films I've seen in years.
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63Seems torn between conflicting possibilities: It's structured like a comedy, but there are undertones of darker themes, and I almost wish they'd allowed the plot to lead them into those shadows.
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63Rushmore is one of those films that's so inconsequential that its memory threatens to fade away before the end credits have finished rolling.
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By the end, were it not for Murray, watching Rushmore would be like reading an article on "Why adolescents need Prozac."
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50You can't have Rushmore without Max, and though Anderson obviously planned it this way, the kid is finally too off-putting to tolerate.
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