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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    An invigoratingly mordant comedy that proves that Alexander Payne's rambunctious debut, "Citizen Ruth," was no fluke. Read full review

  • 100
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    The satire of the season, a hilarious, razor-sharp indictment of the American Dream. Read full review

  • 100
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    A wonderful, piercing and hilarious examination of high school politics and how bitter and ruinous it can become. Read full review

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    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. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Alexander Payne's scathing, subtle, and complexly funny tragicomedy builds a perfect, off-kilter universe--it's a first cousin to "Rushmore." Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Brandishes the sort of intelligent wit and bracing nastiness that will make it more appealing to discerning adults than to teens who just want to have fun. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Alexander Payne is a director whose satire is omnidirectional. He doesn't choose an easy target and march on it. He stands in the middle of his story and attacks on all directions. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

    When it comes to eloquently telling it like it is, Election puts the nation's political pundits to shame. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times |

    Election is a deft dark comedy with a resemblance to "Rushmore." It's smart no matter what. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, sees the lives of these suburban students and teachers through a prism of absurdity that refracts more truth than any straightforward telling. Read full review

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