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100
Viewer score based on 2 votes.

Critic Score

77
Critics' score based on 18 reviews.
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The film itself is invigorating - written, directed, and acted with enormous insight and comic elan. [27 Sept 1991]Full Review

Vincent Canby
The New York Times

It gets you below the emotional belt in a searing, delicate way. No movie this year approaches such magnificent imagery, such delectable poetry.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

Van Sant's sensibility is wholly original, wholly fresh. "My Own Private Idaho" adds a new ingredient: a kind of boho sweetness. I loved it.Full Review

Washington Post

Van Sant's sensibility is wholly original, wholly fresh. "My Own Private Idaho" adds a new ingredient: a kind of boho sweetness. I loved it.Full Review

Hal Hinson
Washington Post

Before this trippy, mesmerizing movie swerves out of control, it delivers an exhilarating and challenging ride.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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