Dazed and Confused (1993)

All Critics (52) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (2) | DVD (30)

The teenage wasteland, 1976-style, of Dazed and Confused is smack-dab between The Brady Bunch and Children of the Damned , and it's a scary, if sometimes giddily amusing, place to visit.

August 8, 2011 Full Review

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

Bet it makes you wanna dance.

August 8, 2011 Full Review

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Seriously funny, and shorn of any hint of nostalgia or wish-fulfilment, this is pretty much where it's at.

August 16, 2007 Full Review

Time Out

Top Critic

A better-than-average teen movie but not much more, at least if you aren't a member of Linklater's generation.

July 19, 2007 Full Review | Comments (3)

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Seriously funny, and shorn of any hint of nostalgia or wish-fulfilment, this is pretty much where it's at.

January 26, 2006 Full Review

Time Out New York

Top Critic

Dazed and Confused has an enjoyably playful spirit, one that amply compensates for its lack of structure.

May 20, 2003

Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

Has the look and spirit of the time down pat. Unfortunately it captures only the worst of the typical misogynistic, foul mouthed druggie losers of the period.

July 7, 2012 Full Review | Comments (8)

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

The film transcends the common barriers and becomes a living spiritual entity, encompassing the essence and tone of an era.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

It may have seemed like a movie that was out of time, but it turned out to be perfectly in sync with the restlessness of the early 90s as well.

November 4, 2011 Full Review

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

The imagery and luxurious auditory landscape of Richard Linklater's '70s-set masterpiece retains on this Criterion Blu-ray a potency that hits like a freshly lit, well-rolled joint.

October 26, 2011 Full Review

Chris Cabin

Slant Magazine

Like the moustache sported by Matthew McCounaughey's character, Dazed And Confused is sleazy, amusing and quite, quite awesome.

August 8, 2011 Full Review

Film4

Despite some gags which use the benefit of hindsight too much for their own good, this is a smart piece of filmmaking which suggests Linklater is already one of the more formidable talents of the 90s.

July 13, 2011 Full Review

Steve Beard

Empire Magazine

Plenty of drug use with very little consequence.

January 1, 2011 Full Review

Elliot Panek

Common Sense Media

An affectionate but unsentimental recreation of suburban teen culture in the rock -- and pot -- drenched 70s.

July 19, 2007 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

A slightly above average plotless teen film filled with nostalgia.

October 17, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The backbone to it all is the ritual torch-passing that allowed incoming seniors to abuse poor freshmen, an alarmingly frank touch that avoids the one-sided sentimentality of an American Graffiti-style pastiche.

September 10, 2006 Full Review

Aaron Hillis

Premiere Magazine

A film that practically demands repeat viewings.

August 25, 2006 Full Review

Chris Barsanti

PopMatters

The 2-disc Criterion edition includes deleted scenes, audition tapes, interviews and behind the scenes, but the most entertaining features are Linklater's critical view of Universal and Kahane Corn's 1-hour docu of the 10-year-reunion of the cast.

July 7, 2006 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

• 1. O'Bannion: Oh you didn't hear? I got a shotgun pulled on my ass!
  – Submitted by Oliver K (19 days ago)
• 1. Kevin Pickford: Walkin' down the hall, by myself, smokin' a jay with fifty elves.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Kevin Pickford: Don, give the beer back, man!
  2. Don Dawson: I paid for the beer, man.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Simone: What a bitch she called me a slut. I'm gonna kick her ass.
  2. Darla: You said you wouldn't get mad.
  3. Simone: I'm not mad!
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Darla: We know you they talk about us, what do they say?
  2. Shavonne: No they don't.
  3. Darla: You're lying you bitch. When you do that I know you're lying.
  4. Simone: Come on you can tell us.
  5. Shavonne: Don't get mad.
  6. Simone: I'm not gonna get mad I'm just curious.
  7. Shavonne: Ok she called you a bitch and you a slut. [laughs]
  8. Darla: She called me a bitch! Thats funny! What a riot.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Carl: Don't let the fact that you won't be able to sit down all summer affect your game.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)

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