| 80 |
Village Voice
The most progressive, good-hearted studio film of the summer.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Never comes alive.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Doesn't quite rank with the films that bracket Heckerling's pop-culture high priestess status
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Loser is anemic.
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| 62 |
Mr. Showbiz
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.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
A sweet-natured and refreshingly uncartoonlike look at the trials of an unworldly Midwestern college boy negotiating his freshman year at NYU.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
The script is atypically bland for Heckerling.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Feels like a college knockoff of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment."
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
She may not be the most cinematic of film artists, but Heckerling will make you smile.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
An arthritic failure, genuine only when the two outcast lovers' eyes dart toward each other, then retreat.
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| 50 |
USA Today
What do you call a filmmaker who thinks imitating a screen benchmark can make up for emotions that are evading her actors -- Clueless.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Well-meaning but hopelessly lost little comedy.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Love is blind, and movies about that blindness can be maddening.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
It's a nice, friendly kind of love, but hardly an inspiring one.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
The bitterness of her new comedy, Loser, comes as a shock. It's not a mean-spirited movie.
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| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
A listless, disjointed collegiate opposites-attract comedy.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Squeak(s) by to make Loser justify the price of admission.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
A second-rate romantic comedy.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Intriguing but poorly executed ideas are the basis of this not entirely unappealing romantic comedy.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Heckerling fails to crack the outer shell of the story and its key relationships.
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| 30 |
TNT RoughCut
Loser sucks.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Loser is just as it sounds.
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| 20 |
Dallas Observer
It's too easy, but here goes: This movie's a Loser. Sorry.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
In the end, Loser disappoints.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
Formulaic new teen opus
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| 20 |
Variety
This tepid comedy-drama is, lamentably, aptly titled.
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| 20 |
Film.com
In short: Don't expect a lot of laughs.
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| 10 |
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
A disappointingly slack, hackneyed comedy.
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| 10 |
Film.com
Gets my vote for the summer's most offensive movie.
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