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60
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83
Critics' score based on 33 reviews.
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An invigoratingly mordant comedy that proves that Alexander Payne's rambunctious debut, "Citizen Ruth," was no fluke.Full Review

Jay Carr
Boston Globe

This is a nearly flawless little film, a cheerful nightmare that knows just where it wants to go and uses precisely calibrated comic effects to get there.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

The satire of the season, a hilarious, razor-sharp indictment of the American Dream.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

A wonderful, piercing and hilarious examination of high school politics and how bitter and ruinous it can become.Full Review

Stephen Hunter
Washington Post

American satire rarely comes more winning than Election, an exuberantly caustic comedy that shows the symbiotic relationship between political go-get-'em-ism and moral backsliding.Full Review

David Edelstein
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