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Movie Review for Graduate, The
Movie Review for
Graduate, The
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20 Reviews total.
Release date: 12/21/1967
Run length: 105 mins.
Categories:
Comedy
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Drama
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Romance
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Adaptation
Summary:
Benjamin Braddock, adrift after college, is seduced by a woman twice his age: icily-assured friend of the family Mrs. Robinson. So its understandable that Benjamin's dream girl is aghast when she finds out he's been sleeping with... her mother.
Reviews of Graduate, The
By
Kevin Carr
of 7M Pictures (7/0)
I couldn't get past the fact what a tool Benjamin Braddock was.
By
Brian Webster
of Apollo Guide (7/0)
It’s smart, witty, and troubling all at the same time.
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (7/0)
The post-college burnout feeling that continues to resonate with audiences today. A comedy of tra...
By
Alison Macor
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
To paraphrase a line from another famous film, what do you say about a movie that has everything?
By
Almar Haflidason
of BBC (7/0)
Nichols provides a masterclass in using the widescreen frame to elucidate complex emotional situa...
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
of Chicago Reader (7/0)
What I don't enjoy is the cruelty, the glib mindlessness, and the insulated, pampered narcissism ...
Reviews of Graduate, The
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
It is a good topical movie whose time has passed
By
John J. Puccio
of DVDTown.com (7/0)
...plastics, an apt description for the artificial people and attitudes around him.
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
Mike Nichols' seminal film at once reflected the generation gap and also widened it, giving youth...
By
Ian Nathan
of Empire Magazine (7/0)
Cruel comedy with a delicious light touch.
By
Christopher Null
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
A true classic
By
Kevin N. Laforest
of Montreal Film Journal (7/0)
Though often hilarious, this film is much more than just a comedy.
Reviews of Graduate, The
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
It launched a type of film that is with us even today. Think not? Look at the work of David O. Ru...
By
Rumsey Taylor
of Not Coming to a Theater Near You (7/0)
Seen in its time, a decade of political identification (sexual, racial, etc.), The Graduate estab...
By
Robin Dougherty
of Salon.com (7/0)
A simple romantic comedy whose "countercultural" message, insofar as it has one, is decidedly ret...
By
Barbara Shulgasser
of San Francisco Examiner (7/0)
What's most fun is a brilliant, nasty, sad, defiant and overtly sexual performance by Anne Bancro...
By
Rob Blackwelder
of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
Buck Henry's ironic script is at once biting and thoughtful.
By
Tim Dirks
of Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (7/0)
The Graduate (1967) is one of the key films of the late 1960s. The influential film is a biting s...
Reviews of Graduate, The
By
Derek Adams
of Time Out (7/0)
The film itself is very broken-backed, partly because Anne Bancroft's performance as the mother c...
By
Bosley Crowther
of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
Makes you feel a little tearful and choked-up while it is making you laugh yourself raw.
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