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

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It simply looks at the day as it unfolds, and that is a brave and radical act; it refuses to supply reasons and assign cures, so that we can close the case and move on. Read full review

  • 90
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Calmly, almost serenely, Mr. Van Sant and his superb cinematographer, Harris Savides, reveal a vision of contemporary American youth quite unlike any other. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    A movie that throws out the rules with audacity, assurance and admirable moral seriousness. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    An understated, hypnotic stroke of brilliance. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    Working with cinematographer Harris Savides and serving as the film's editor, he (Van Sant) has fashioned a visual style and a narrative shape that has the quality of a waking dream, then a nightmare. Rarely do form and content add up with such harmonious grace and power. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    To those who see no purpose to this film, I say the purpose is learning not to turn a blind eye. The unique and unforgettable Elephant keeps its eyes wide open. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    By making the camera an observer, we get a perspective that often comes out of horror movies, a choice that whips the ordinary with the terrifying, an unforgettable mix. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Beauty competes with vacuity in Elephant, and for a good stretch of writer-director Gus Van Sant's maddeningly passive ode to high school innocence and Columbine-age youthful evil, beauty wins. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    A haunting elegy on the unpredictability of life. Never knowing what the next minute might bring is the elephant in all our lives. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Achieves some glancing poetic effects during its first hour, but becomes gross and exploitative during the shooting rampage of the final act. Read full review

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