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Dazed and Confused (1993)

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96

Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 2

Featuring an excellent ensemble cast, a precise feel for the 1970s, and a killer soundtrack, Dazed and Confused is a funny, affectionate, and clear-eyed look at high school life.

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 1

Featuring an excellent ensemble cast, a precise feel for the 1970s, and a killer soundtrack, Dazed and Confused is a funny, affectionate, and clear-eyed look at high school life.

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Like George Lucas' American Graffiti, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Lucas took aim at the conservative 1950's, Linklater jumps ahead a generation to the bicentennial year of 1976 to celebrate the joys of beer blasts, pot smoking and Frampton Comes Alive. Set on the last day of the academic year, the film follows the random activities of a sprawling group of Texas high schoolers as they celebrate the arrival of summer,

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Richard Linklater

Jun 30, 1998

Gramercy Pictures

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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 Source: Variety
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Bet it makes you wanna dance.

August 8, 2011 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
TIME Magazine
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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 Source: Time Out
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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 Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (3)
Chicago Reader
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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 Source: Time Out New York
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Dazed and Confused has an enjoyably playful spirit, one that amply compensates for its lack of structure.

May 20, 2003
New York Times
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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 Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Comments (8)
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 Source: IGN DVD
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 Source: Scene-Stealers.com
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 Source: Slant Magazine
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 Source: Film4
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 Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

Plenty of drug use with very little consequence.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

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

July 19, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A slightly above average plotless teen film filled with nostalgia.

October 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment (1)
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 Source: Premiere Magazine
Premiere Magazine

A film that practically demands repeat viewings.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: PopMatters
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 Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
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Audience Reviews for Dazed and Confused

A cult classic. Us 30 somethings now watched this movie in envy and than even made it happen sometimes. Loved those tower parties.
March 20, 2007
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

Funny, authentic and extremely nostalgic of its time period, 'Dazed and Confused' is the 'American Graffiti' for the 1970s decade, but a whole lot more rebellious and drug-induced. Writer/director Richard Linklater captures youth culture in such an exquisite way as he expresses the style of focusing more on the laid-back, but still entertaining nature of the decade's teenage lifestyle. Also I'd like any of you to step up and name one movie that has a better soundtrack than this, b/c no matter what your answer will be dead wrong!
August 11, 2012
Tyler Christian

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    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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