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Tuesday, August 30 2005

Clueless: Whatever! Edition (1995)

By Cynthia Fuchs

When I first read I just thought, this is funny. This was by the lady who directed Fast Times and apparently they had the girl from the Aerosmith videos in it.


Sunday, January 1 1995

Loser (2000)

By Lucas Hilderbrand

With Loser, Heckerling faces the challenge of measuring up to past success in a decade that doesn't even have its own colloquialism. If in no other way but numerically, Loser functions as a reflection of the '00s.


Loser (2000)

By Cynthia Fuchs

All this said, I'm inclined to like Loser, because it wants so badly to do well by its college-age heroes, and there are so many movies that have exactly the opposite intention.


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