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The director treats eccentricity with compassionate respect: no winking, no nudges to even like the boy. The filmmaking, meanwhile, is beautifully disciplined.
You also have to admire the creepy arrogance of Schwartzman's performance.
What I wanted was a larger perspective, something more insightful than the one-thing-after-another existential whimsy.
A wickedly funny high school comedy for most of its running time, Rushmore is a bracingly fresh and original outing.
This film is so not-from-the-cookie-cutter, so unaccommodating of our expectations, that we can't anticipate where Anderson's going to take us. Every scene is a discovery or sly diversion.
A true original: a film that stands apart from the crowd, goes its own way and all but dares you not to like it.
Rushmore may have shades of J.D. Salinger's writing and Hal Ashby's movies, but Wes Anderson pulls humor from the trickiest of situations and always manages to surprise.
Criterion's stellar reputation for Blu-ray releases continues unabated by their phenomenal treatment of Wes Anderson's first masterpiece, a sublime comedy about death, ghosts, ambition, and hubris.
Probably of more interest to adults than to teens.
Besides being a terrific film in its own right, seen today, Rushmore almost seems like a trailer for the films that have followed it.
An observation on what happens when the world of children and adults collide, perfectly embodied in Schwartzman's performance.
To paraphrase Herman Blume, Rushmore is my Rushmore.
Moments of classic slapstick rubbing elbows with moments of painful candor.
Another quirky, hard-to-put-your-finger-on delight from the boys who brought us Bottle Rocket.
It's nice to see that there are still comedies out there that don't need to resort to gross-out humor for a laugh.
Anderson is unable to frame an uninteresting shot.
A peculiar, poignant comedy, with an outstanding character turn from Murray.
It's a better coming of age movie than anything John Hughes ever did.
Director Wes Anderson never lets the audience in as to whether he sees this story as humorous or pathetic.
It's uniquely inspired lunacy that's an instant comedy classic...
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