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Loser
Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
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
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Amy Heckerling
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Amy Heckerling
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 19, 2000
Video: December 19, 2000
Theatrical: July 21, 2000
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| 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...
80
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
The most progressive, good-hearted studio film of the summer.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Never comes alive.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Doesn't quite rank with the films that bracket Heckerling's pop-culture high priestess status
63
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Loser is anemic.
62
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.
60
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.
58
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
The script is atypically bland for Heckerling.
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Feels like a college knockoff of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment."
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
She may not be the most cinematic of film artists, but Heckerling will make you smile.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
An arthritic failure, genuine only when the two outcast lovers' eyes dart toward each other, then retreat.
50
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.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Well-meaning but hopelessly lost little comedy.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Love is blind, and movies about that blindness can be maddening.
40
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
It's a nice, friendly kind of love, but hardly an inspiring one.
40
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
The bitterness of her new comedy, Loser, comes as a shock. It's not a mean-spirited movie.
38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
A listless, disjointed collegiate opposites-attract comedy.
30
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Squeak(s) by to make Loser justify the price of admission.
30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A second-rate romantic comedy.
30
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Intriguing but poorly executed ideas are the basis of this not entirely unappealing romantic comedy.
30
Film.com
Tom Keogh
Heckerling fails to crack the outer shell of the story and its key relationships.
30
TNT RoughCut
Susannah Breslin
Loser sucks.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Loser is just as it sounds.
20
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
It's too easy, but here goes: This movie's a Loser. Sorry.
20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
In the end, Loser disappoints.
20
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
Formulaic new teen opus
20
Variety
Dennis Harvey
This tepid comedy-drama is, lamentably, aptly titled.
20
Film.com
John Hartl
In short: Don't expect a lot of laughs.
10
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
A disappointingly slack, hackneyed comedy.
10
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
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