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Overall Grade: B+
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Not what you expect but good - MUST READ REVIEW
by Mike (movies profile) (Jun 15, 2008)
47 of 57 people found this review helpful
Please don't go into this film expecting begining to end action and shootings. The movie is short (less than an hour and a half) but spends most of the time on the chara... Full Review

Overall Grade: A-
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Subtle messages and themes missed by many
by (movies profile) (Jun 15, 2008)
41 of 49 people found this review helpful
This film successfully captures the complex emotional experience of teenage American life. It does so by simply following high school students as they make their way thr... Full Review

Overall Grade: A
Story: A
Acting: B+
Direction: A
Visuals: A
Creepy and True-To-Life
by Timothy (movies profile) (Jun 15, 2008)
24 of 27 people found this review helpful
I remember the Columbine shootings like it was yesterday. It was a a terrible event and I have never thought otherwise. However, being the movie fanatic that I am, I co... Full Review

Overall Grade: A+
Story: A
Acting: B+
Direction: A+
Visuals: A+
Seeing the elephant
by VidiaWzHare (movies profile) (Oct 27, 2005)
8 of 8 people found this review helpful
Elephant is a brave little film that dares to tell no story, yet everybody's story. What struck me was the way Gus Van Sant was able to create tonnes of tension with very... Full Review

Overall Grade: A-
Story: A
Acting: B
Direction: A+
Visuals: A
Must-See....Lasting, Provacative, and Important
by KyleB (movies profile) (Dec 3, 2007)
8 of 10 people found this review helpful
Do not see this movie to be entertained. See it to be enriched. Very few movies today are important, but this one is...a movie everyone (especially middle and high-scho... Full Review

Overall Grade: A-
Story: B
Acting: A
Direction: A-
Visuals: A
Strange but compelling
by gdavisloop (movies profile) (Jun 15, 2008)
16 of 27 people found this review helpful
This movie announces it's strange even before it starts, as the cinema presentation is 4:3 (TV shape). The film itself has essentially no plot, making its scant 83 minut... Full Review

Overall Grade: B
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Could be extremely well-done, but falls short...
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile) (Jul 12, 2007)
12 of 19 people found this review helpful
Gus Van Sant is certainly a director to be reckoned with: he has ambition and uniqueness, which is what gives "Elephant" its extra umphhh. This disturbing tale of the co... Full Review

Overall Grade: F
Story: F
Acting: D
Direction: F
Visuals: D
Walk this Way (out of the Theatre)
by The Mule (movies profile) (Feb 4, 2008)
7 of 9 people found this review helpful
I got tired watching the film with all the mindless walking, as if the school was really a small city. Nice Point of Views, however: Back of the head, Front of the hea... Full Review

Overall Grade: B+
Story: A
Acting: B-
Direction: B+
Visuals: B+
The most memorable movie I have ever seen
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile) (Dec 7, 2005)
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
I turned on this movie and after a few minutes my first reaction was to turn it off. But I couldn't, it was like watching something so realistic that you can't help but b... Full Review

Overall Grade: D
Story: C
Acting: D
Direction: C
Visuals: B
a bull***** adult take on highschool life
by elizabethE (movies profile) (Dec 3, 2007)
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
First of all- there are no highschools even remotely that lax in most of the country. Second of all- the acting was miserable, the script, or lack-there-of was miserable... Full Review
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