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Loser
Sony Pictures Entertainment


3.0

based on 29 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for drug content, crude sexual material and language

Starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Greg Kinnear, and Thomas Sadoski

Labelled a loser by his roomates, a college student (Biggs) is booted from his dorm and falls in love with a coed (Suvari) who has feelings for their professor (Kinnear).

GENRE(S):	Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Amy Heckerling
DIRECTED BY:	Amy Heckerling
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 19, 2000 Video: December 19, 2000 Theatrical: July 21, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	98 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Village Voice Amy Taubin

The most progressive, good-hearted studio film of the summer.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Never comes alive.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Doesn't quite rank with the films that bracket Heckerling's pop-culture high priestess status

Chicago Tribune Marc Caro

Loser is anemic.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

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.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

A sweet-natured and refreshingly uncartoonlike look at the trials of an unworldly Midwestern college boy negotiating his freshman year at NYU.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

The script is atypically bland for Heckerling.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Feels like a college knockoff of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment."

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

She may not be the most cinematic of film artists, but Heckerling will make you smile.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

An arthritic failure, genuine only when the two outcast lovers' eyes dart toward each other, then retreat.

USA Today Mike Clark

What do you call a filmmaker who thinks imitating a screen benchmark can make up for emotions that are evading her actors -- Clueless.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Well-meaning but hopelessly lost little comedy.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Love is blind, and movies about that blindness can be maddening.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

It's a nice, friendly kind of love, but hardly an inspiring one.

Salon.com Charles Taylor

The bitterness of her new comedy, Loser, comes as a shock. It's not a mean-spirited movie.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

A listless, disjointed collegiate opposites-attract comedy.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Squeak(s) by to make Loser justify the price of admission.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

A second-rate romantic comedy.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Intriguing but poorly executed ideas are the basis of this not entirely unappealing romantic comedy.

Film.com Tom Keogh

Heckerling fails to crack the outer shell of the story and its key relationships.

TNT RoughCut Susannah Breslin

Loser sucks.

San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer

Loser is just as it sounds.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

It's too easy, but here goes: This movie's a Loser. Sorry.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

In the end, Loser disappoints.

Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart

Formulaic new teen opus

Variety Dennis Harvey

This tepid comedy-drama is, lamentably, aptly titled.

Film.com John Hartl

In short: Don't expect a lot of laughs.

Newsweek Jeff Giles

A disappointingly slack, hackneyed comedy.

Film.com Sean Means

Gets my vote for the summer's most offensive movie.

The average user rating for this movie is 3.0 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Gino E. gave it a 0:
I've seen a lot of bad movies this year, but this Jason-Biggs-in-a-wig-crap beats everything!!! Everybody from the cast to the crew to Columbia Pictures should be ashamed of themselves for bringing this garbage into our so called "healthy" sociaty!!!

Yoon Min C. gave it a 6:
Fails as satire--too glib and self-righteous--but the central story of two young college kids falling in love is affecting, even poignant.

Latassia K. gave it a 1:
The title says it all.

Mark M. gave it an 8:
Very Funny all the way through.

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Loser
Sony Pictures Entertainment