I wanted to hug this movie. It takes such a risky journey and never steps wrong. It creates specific, original, believable, lovable characters, and meanders with them through their inconsolable days, never losing its sense of humor.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
It's surely the best depiction of teenage eccentricity since "Rushmore," and its incisive satire of the boredom and conformity that rule our thrill-seeking, individualistic land, and also its question-mark ending, reminded me of "The Graduate."Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers in revolt.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Offers an exquisite tour of the twilight zone between high school and the so-called real world, as well as between bohemian subculture and the even stranger culture of America at large.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Pitch-perfect -- not just the most enjoyable movie of the year but the first (after Crumb) to get the tone of a certain strain of "underground" comic right.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
A character so real and poignant (yet hysterically funny), she'll linger for months or years.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Let the unsettling secrets of this outrageously funny and steadily engrossing meditation on the life of two high school misfits after graduation catch you by surprise. It's that good.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
Keep your "Lara Croft" and your "Shrek": For me, the summer's reigning icons are Enid, Thora Birch's geek goddess in Ghost World, and her action-movie analogue.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
In this arid landscape, the edifice of Ghost World, with all its acute insolence, stands out like the Taj Mahal.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: Jeff Giles
In the hearts of losers, Zwigoff’s found a real winner.Read Full Review »
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