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DryvBy2

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+ Really depressing dry humor that doesn't make you bust out laughing as to making you think.
- Some boring parts.

Rushmore is about two guys, fighting over one woman. Max (Schwartzman) is just a kid in school, looking for ways...
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+ Really depressing dry humor that doesn't make you bust out laughing as to making you think.
- Some boring parts.

Rushmore is about two guys, fighting over one woman. Max (Schwartzman) is just a kid in school, looking for ways to be president of the school's many clubs, but is never really good in actual school. Herman (Murray) is a married, depressed man with two bratty kids who is pretty wealthy. Ms. Cross (Williams) is a pre-school teacher at Max's school, Rushmore. Both of the guys end up fighting dirty to get the girl, to find out she's in love with someone else, who just so happens to be dead. Really brilliant film.

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Posted oct 2, 2007 1:37 am pt

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+ incredible play scenes
+ really funny + some realistic scope to the movie (when bill murray is hiding behind the tree)
+ lots of great characters

- some boring / pointless parts

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Posted mar 18, 2007 9:41 pm pt

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A truly amazing movie, Wes Anderson's best work. Clearly unmissable and a cult classic to be. My second favourite indie comedy film next to American Splendor. Every scene is brilliant and there are some genuine funny moments with Max Fischer. He's...
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A truly amazing movie, Wes Anderson's best work. Clearly unmissable and a cult classic to be. My second favourite indie comedy film next to American Splendor. Every scene is brilliant and there are some genuine funny moments with Max Fischer. He's one of the most oddball characters in recent movie history. Bill Murray is fantastic, and this movie starts his increasing love for roles as a down-and-out, depressed man who has a middle age crisis but just wants to have fun. No use explaining the story here, just check the synopsis at any site. I won't say enough things about this film to make you watch it. Just watch it for the ending battle scene, pure genius. Brilliant film, one of the best.

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Posted feb 8, 2007 1:57 pm pt

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Reminded me alot of The Royal Tenenbaums.. but not as good.

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Posted dec 19, 2006 5:30 am pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  With its dry, throwaway humor and constant stream of chuckles, it creates its own category of stealth comedy.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  100
  For me, the experience was much like seeing Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" and George Lucas' "American Graffiti" before the hype machines kicked in.

  by John Hartl | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  100
  A work of loopy, original comic genius.

  by Andrew O'Hehir | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  Murray, meanwhile, turns in a thrillingly knowing, unforced performance--an award-worthy high point in a career that continues, Max Fischer style, to defy the obvious at every turn.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  100
  One of the freshest, richest, most original films to come out of Hollywood in a very long time.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  100
  Anderson fulfills the promise of his inventive "Bottle Rocket" with this quirky, often hilarious comedy, and Murray gives his most uproarious performance since the groundbreaking "Groundhog Day."

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  100
  Stylistically fresh and full of sweetness that never cloys, this is contemporary Hollywood filmmaking at its near best.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] TNT RoughCut
  
  95
  The scene-stealer here is Bill Murray, who, after 25 years of near-hits, finds his most fully realized character yet.

  by Brian M. Raftery | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  90
  I can't remember a teenage romance this engagingly offbeat since "Lord Love a Duck."

  by J. Hoberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Mr. Showbiz
  
  90
  It's the funniest, saddest performance of the year in a film of uncompromising wit and heart.

  by Kevin Maynard | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  90
  A marvelous comedy from deep in left field -- immaculately written, unexpectedly touching and pure of heart.

  by Jeff Giles | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  Rushmore is an almost indefinable genre of its own. A comedy with a menacing edge? An ironic romance? Hard to call.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  90
  Fast, exhilarating new comedy.

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  Weird, warm, monumentally entertaining comedy.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  90
  It's too smart to be maudlin.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »