Jon Heder in the magnificent Napoleon Dynamite, is one of the most winning movie creations in years.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
I laughed. And I laughed primarily over Heder's hilarious performance. You ain't seen nothing till you've seen Napoleon attack that tether ball.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Thrusts us into a high school senior year like no other.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Hess and his terrific cast -- Heder is geek perfection -- make their own kind of deadpan hilarity. You'll laugh till it hurts. Sweet.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
There's plenty of humor in the film, but the movie is often a little uncomfortable to watch, and Napoleon is not an easy guy to like. Rooting for him takes effort.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
An inspired dead-end stunt that keeps delivering snarky laughs far longer than it has any right to.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Napoleon Dynamite is too low-wattage to be a true nerd anthem, but it's charming in retrospect.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: Devin Gordon
This achingly funny film is a string of vignettes with no real plot, so it has periods of pointlessness--come to think of it, it's all pointless. But it has "cult classic" written all over it.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
There isn't much Napoleonic grandeur in this Idaho-set high school comedy, which in spite of its most condescending instincts, does have its moments.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
The performances, even those by trained actors like Mr. Ramirez and Ms. Majorino, have the hesitant, blinking opacity that some directors look for in nonprofessional casts. Their awkwardness is charming, and part of the point of the movie, but it also makes for some dull stretches and thwarts your ability to regard the characters with sympathy rather than mere curiosity.Read Full Review »
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