Rushmore” is an interesting movie that will appeal to a very small audience, but will nonetheless impress.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2023

...a consistently watchable yet thoroughly erratic endeavor that fares best in its briskly-paced and tremendously entertaining first half...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2023

It’s a bittersweet tale about growing up, anchored by sensational turns from the cast and a pitch-perfect script.

| Jun 28, 2023

...an infectious comedy from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Precocious but not precious, "Rushmore" is heavy-hearted comedy with a light touch.

| Original Score: FOUR STARS | Apr 24, 2022

The script is so charming and quippy that it's not hard to see why this is still many fans' favourite...

| Apr 28, 2021

Anderson and Wilson, who attended the University of Texas together, have made a film with something very human and charming about it.

| Feb 16, 2021

Schwartzman is cautious but stubbornly optimistic, while Murray is possessed by the mania of near-despair... They make the best and most disconcerting odd couple that American movies have produced in a long while.

| Mar 17, 2014

Rushmore is an almost indefinable genre of its own. A comedy with a menacing edge? An ironic romance? Hard to call. Anderson, the director and co-writer, and Wilson, co-writer, have a vision like no one else's.

| Mar 17, 2014

A quirky, sometimes hilarious and often touching comic fable.

| Mar 17, 2014

There's an unshakable confidence about this coming-of-age fable that matches that of its central character, Max Fischer.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 17, 2014

Rushmore offers more than simply a series of high-grade yuks; it's a finely-judged parable on the line between self-delusion and reality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2014

If happiness is finding something you love to do and doing it forever, one of my somethings might just be watching this oddly uproarious little flick.

| Mar 17, 2014

Anderson fulfills the promise of his inventive Bottle Rocket with this quirky, often hilarious comedy, and Murray gives his most uproarious performance since the groundbreaking Groundhog Day.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 17, 2014

Despite cute moments, nothing about Rushmore begs to be liked, which makes this modest comedy all the more satisfying.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 17, 2014

A gloriously inventive little comedy about the scholastic and romantic woes of a 15-year-old student at a private academy.

Full Review | Mar 17, 2014

Just when you expect the film to do something normal, it takes off like Murray -- riffing on reality as only he, and filmmaker Anderson, can.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2014

It's somehow fitting that in this Maxcentric universe, Rushmore exists as a satirical comedy, full of dry wit and adolescent absurdities, and a bittersweet valentine to manipulative misfits who actually find the love they deserve.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 17, 2014

There's a danger of overselling Anderson's sweet-hearted, loony little fantasy, but everything -- from the soundtrack of '60s Brit bands with their jangly anthems of angsty love to Robert Yeoman's slightly hyper-real photography -- fits perfectly.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 17, 2014

An inspired second feature from director Wes Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson, the picture shares the offbeat rhythms and disarming humor of their overlooked debut, Bottle Rocket.

| Mar 17, 2014