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Loser
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 7 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by: Amy Heckerling
Directed by: Amy Heckerling
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 21, 2000
DVD: December 19, 2000
Running Time: 98 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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).
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What The Critics Said
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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Doesn't quite rank with the films that bracket Heckerling's pop-culture high priestess status
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Feels like a college knockoff of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment."
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
She may not be the most cinematic of film artists, but Heckerling will make you smile.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
An arthritic failure, genuine only when the two outcast lovers' eyes dart toward each other, then retreat.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Well-meaning but hopelessly lost little comedy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Love is blind, and movies about that blindness can be maddening.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
It's a nice, friendly kind of love, but hardly an inspiring one.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
The bitterness of her new comedy, Loser, comes as a shock. It's not a mean-spirited movie.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
A listless, disjointed collegiate opposites-attract comedy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Intriguing but poorly executed ideas are the basis of this not entirely unappealing romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
Heckerling fails to crack the outer shell of the story and its key relationships.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
It's too easy, but here goes: This movie's a Loser. Sorry.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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.
