Rushmore Critic Reviews

Seems torn between conflicting possibilities: It's structured like a comedy, but there are undertones of darker themes, and I almost wish they'd allowed the plot to lead them into those shadows.Read the full review

Murray, meanwhile, turns in a thrillingly knowing, unforced performance--an award-worthy high point in a career that continues, Max Fischer style, to defy the obvious at every turn.Read the full review

You can't have Rushmore without Max, and though Anderson obviously planned it this way, the kid is finally too off-putting to tolerate.Read the full review

Rushmore is one of those films that's so inconsequential that its memory threatens to fade away before the end credits have finished rolling.Read the full review

With its dry, throwaway humor and constant stream of chuckles, it creates its own category of stealth comedy.Read the full review

It's too smart to be maudlin.Read the full review

Fast, exhilarating new comedy.Read the full review

With the astonishingly assured newcomer Jason Schwartzman to bounce off of, Murray has his best comic foil since those feisty rodents in Groundhog Day and Caddyshack. [5 February 1999, Life, p.11E]Read the full review

Wickedly funny.Read the full review