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  Review by Nakul ★★★½

  "50 years from now we're all gonna be dead and there'll be new people standing here, drinking beer, eating pizza, bitching about the price of Oreos and they'll have no idea we were ever here".

  Pleased to report that SUBURBIA worked a lot better on rewatch than it did at first. Linklater sure damn knows how to make a perfect hangout movie.
  SubUrbia feels like a spiritual sequel to Dazed & Confused but it's darker, angrier and cynical. Even tho it's uneven & sometimes hamfisted but Linklater's direction and Eric Bogosian's script captures the 90s zeitgeist perfectly. The characters are full of shit & purposefully annoying; but there's honesty in that, thanks to the cast. Giovanni Ribisi gives his best performance here. Also great soundtrack.

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  Review by Marcissus ★★★★★ 2

  As suspected, this film means a lot more to me than I previously allowed myself to let on. "It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off"

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★ 2

  "I thought my parents loved me" -Bee-Bee,

  - Richard Linklater Ranked: boxd.it/7rBA4

  This needs a different name.

  In Suburbia, Linklater and writer Eric Bogosian explore anger, fear, and resentment for young adults living in the suburbs. This is like the psychotic dad to Green Day's American Idiot album. Some of the characters in this film are so angry that it made it uncomfortable for me at parts, especially their interaction with the Pakistani family and the mens' aggressiveness with women. The film really gets at the entitlement that comes with some of the white suburban ethos in a way that I think means the film works, even though it makes many of the characters unbearable.

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★ 21

  Have you ever listened to Richard Linklater talk about how he wanted to make Dazed and Confused an anti-nostalgia film? He failed miserably, because Dazed takes us all back, and it doesn’t matter what decade we grew up in, we can relate, because we’ve all kept on L-I-V-I-N. 

  Now, let’s look at SubUrbia. Here’s a film that accomplishes Linklater’s original goal from Dazed. It makes me want to forget the ‘90s. I’m not going to lie, I was never a Sonic Youth fan, so the music does nothing for me. Characters such as Buff (Steve Zahn), Pony (Jayce Bartok) and Sooze (Amie Carey) gave me a migraine with their annoyance. Especially Zahn. His routine didn’t age well for me.

  However, it is…

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  Review by Parker ★★★★★

  The scene where Jeff rants about how nothing changes and how in the future, there'll be a group of losers complaining about Oreos is oddly prophetic.

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★½

  "fuck oliver stone. fuck bill clinton. fuck howard stern. fuck michael bolton. fuck oj simpson. fuck pope john paul. fuck my dad. fuck all the men. fuck all the men. fuck all the men! bang your head, blow your nose. run down the street, suck a hose. chew my lips, eat some shit. eat a stick of dynamite and blow yourself to bits! shut your mouth, go away. drink my piss, have a nice day! i hope you cry and never doubt. i hope you die with blood in your mouth. i hope your lies will no more shout what's in my eyes, what's in your snout. youre a pig! i know that's true! i dance a jig! fuck you! fuck you! fuck you!"

  - Burger Manifesto, Part One - The Dialectical Exposition of Testosterone

  "why dont you write a song about sandra bernhard's salad?" lmao

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  Review by Ian West ★★★½

  Maybe we really are just losers complaining about Oreos.

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★ 2

  Linklater packed this one with more white suburban teenage angst than the entire Limp Bizkit catalog.

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  Review by Bob McCully ★★★½ 8

  I remember renting this back when it came out in 1997. I was 12 and loved Dazed & Confused so I dove into this expecting essentially Dazed & Confused 2 set in the late 90's with grungy teens partying for one whole night. Well folks - that is NOT this movie. I was confused and bummed.

  Instead of delivering us another perfect slice of teenage bliss that makes you want to be young forever, Richard Linklater's adaptation of an Eric Bogosian stage-play is a bleak examination of a bunch of college-aged losers that don't know how to grow up.
  Insufferable, pretentious, and painfully cynical, this group of degenerates hang out on corners of mini-malls and get drunk and take turns comparing the…

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  Review by Nathan Rabin ★★ 1

  Richard Linklater has made a number of fine films. This is not one of them.

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  Review by Liz ★★

  Shitty straight dude Totally Fucked Up

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  Review by Joe ★★★★

  Unbelievably dark and grim by Linklater standards but unlike my impression of a lot of the people who watch this I think the contrast between his Texas slacker and Eric Bogosian's hyperverbal cynic gives the whole thing a unique energy, it's chilling somehow to imagine that these people could all be characters in a cheerful comedy with just a few changes in emphasis. I wish this had text epilogues for all the characters like American Graffiti.