Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 84
Fresh: 73 | Rotten: 11
This cult favorite is a quirky coming of age story, with fine, off-kilter performances from Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 4
This cult favorite is a quirky coming of age story, with fine, off-kilter performances from Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.
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After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with a quirky Touchstone Studios film entitled Rushmore. Written by Anderson and friend Owen Wilson (an actor in Armageddon and Anaconda), they created the story of Max Fischer, a highly eccentric 15-year-old boy who attends the tenth grade at Rushmore Academy. Played by Jason Schwartzman (Talia Shire's son and Francis Ford Coppola's nephew), Max is a poor student with big dreams and a love of
Sep 17, 1998 Wide
Jun 29, 1999
Touchstone Pictures
All Critics (84) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (76) | Rotten (12) | DVD (26)
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.
Top CriticA 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...
One can hardly find anything to complain about while watching the work of Wes Anderson, but most people do for some reason. I don't know what it is that they're expecting. The man is practically a new-age Stanley Kubrick mixed with a bit of Howard Hawks and Frank Capra. Even though Rushmore wasn't his first film, it
April 22, 2007
Super Reviewer
Funny in an offbeat,quirky way, but also an extremely mature coming-of-age story. Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray enjoy some of their finest hours in Wes Anderson's humorous Graduate-inspired tale.
January 18, 2012Super Reviewer
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