Dazed and Confused Reviews
Top CriticThis is light entertainment -- nothing groundbreaking or even especially noteworthy.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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.
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| Original Score: C
Common Sense Media
Plenty of drug use with very little consequence.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Bullz-Eye.com
The film is actually like high school, and not a movie about high school. There's a big difference, and that's why the film has quickly become one of the biggest cult classics of the last twenty years.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The film's real inspiration, I think, is to depict some high school kids from the 1970s with such unblinking attention that we will realize how romanticized most movie teenagers are.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Countingdown.com
An amazing film because of the way it perfectly captures the time period, and how it manages to carry so many characters and make every one of them interesting. Most films would be worthwhile if they could create one character as deep as these.
| Original Score: 5/5
Arizona Daily Star
Linklater shreds the very fabric of what's expected in a teen comedy.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Netflix
Dazed and Confused is a more modern American Graffiti -- and just as classic.
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| Original Score: 5/5
eFilmCritic.com
Easily the equal of Lucas' "American Graffiti."
| Original Score: 5/5
Film Threat
Hysterically Funny and ultimately enriching, "Dazed and Confused" takes some pretty genuine themes - rebelling, the thought of growing up too fast, and life after school - and spices it with a nice blend of wired humour.
| Original Score: 4/5
DVDTalk.com
Dazed and Confused is a perfect movie. It flawlessly captures the spirit of the '70s while arguing for a clear universality in the high school experience.
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| Original Score: 5/5
A better-than-average teen movie but not much more, at least if you aren't a member of Linklater's generation.
Combustible Celluloid
Not only portrays flawlessly a 24-hour period on the last day of school in 1976, but it captures the crushing boredom of a small town.
Empire Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
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.
Scene-Stealers.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Spirituality and Practice
Shows the aimlessness and amorality of youth who don't have a clue to the rituals that could give their lives meaning.
