Hayley Croke Loud and Clear Reviews Oct 25, 2024 4.5

The movie has such an effortless nature and a total sense of identity from the very start, making the characters and world that Linklater has built feel completely tangible and lived in.

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Mark Jackson Epoch Times Sep 30, 2024 4/5

This nostalgic, spot-on, and hilarious cult classic is Texas teens attempting to give themselves an adulthood rite-of-passage to escape 1970's suburban ennui.


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Noah Berlatsky Splice Today Sep 25, 2023

Linklater, though, thinks everyone should have a chance to be who they are—or, like Mike briefly experimenting with being a tough guy, a chance to be who they aren’t.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Sep 18, 2023 A

The movie’s vibe is warm and good-natured, and we feel welcomed into the world of the cool older kids.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Sep 15, 2023 5/5

It’s a strange film in many ways, affectless and directionless, coolly refusing the usual dramatic beats and climactic moments, and as unreflective as MOR rock.

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Sep 14, 2023 4/4

...doubles as a treatise on the American experiment as a whole.

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Chuck Bowen Slant Magazine Mar 20, 2023

The meaninglessness of it all is the meaning of the film.

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Brian Susbielles InSession Film Feb 13, 2023

The soundtrack of the 70s mixed with plenty of weed humor fulfills a moment in time that holds up many years later.

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Cory Woodroof 615 Film Aug 30, 2022

Richard Linklater is the king of hangout cinema. A masterpiece. It’s also crazy the director this film is most indebted to is George Lucas.

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Mar 19, 2022

Richard Linklaters cinematic flashback... captures a rich pageant of high-school life, circa 1976, in a mere 100 minutes, leaning on nostalgia without wallowing in it.

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Tom Meek Cambridge Day Aug 21, 2020 3.5/4

The magnum opus of Linklater's Austin films, but in this slice of life it's high schoolers moving up and moving on.

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Brent McKnight The Last Thing I See Jul 7, 2020 A

It's never going to be this good again.

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Patrick McDonald HollywoodChicago.com May 1, 2020 5/5

Totally authentic. Every time you watch this film, you're taken back to the 1970s daze of high school. The '70s kids AMERICAN GRAFFITI.

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Fico Cangiano CineXpress Podcast Apr 13, 2020 3.5/5

Richard Linklater manages to entertain with a film that's really about nothing, yet truly works as a snapshot of a certain moment in time. [Full review in Spanish]

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Ben Thompson Sight & Sound Feb 6, 2020

Few of these people are going anywhere, but they are not going anywhere with style and dignity.

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Bedatri D. Choudhury MUBI Jan 17, 2019

It is a nostalgia film and a coming-of-age film. In some ways, it is every Bildungsroman and in some ways, it is like no other.

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Patricia Bibby Associated Press Jun 12, 2018

Very little actually happens but - like life - it's not always the events that define a time but the characters in it. And ''Dazed and Confused'' is bursting with wonderfully drawn and completely credible characters.

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Malcolm L. Johnson Hartford Courant Apr 9, 2018

Watching this documentary-style picture is like being clean and sober at some endless '70s party where everyone else is drunk or stoned.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 8, 2016

Manages to not only unfold in to a fun narrative, but also builds a myriad fascinating characters you'll either love or hate...

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Kevin Carr 7M Pictures Sep 5, 2013 1/5

glorifies bullying and tries to balance it with pseudo-intellectual contemplation

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