Dazed and Confused Reviews
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.
Time Out
Top CriticSeriously funny, and shorn of any hint of nostalgia or wish-fulfilment, this is pretty much where it's at.
A better-than-average teen movie but not much more, at least if you aren't a member of Linklater's generation.
Time Out New York
Top CriticSeriously funny, and shorn of any hint of nostalgia or wish-fulfilment, this is pretty much where it's at.
Dazed and Confused has an enjoyably playful spirit, one that amply compensates for its lack of structure.
| Original Score: 4/5
The ultimate party movie -- loud, crude, socially irresponsible and totally irresistible.
Succeeds on its own terms and reflects American culture so well, it becomes part of it.
This is light entertainment -- nothing groundbreaking or even especially noteworthy.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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
Once every decade or so, a movie captures the hormone-drenched, fashion- crazed, pop-song-driven rituals of American youth culture with such loving authenticity that it comes to seem a kind of anthem.
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| Original Score: A
