Critic Reviews

The satire of the season, a hilarious, razor-sharp indictment of the American Dream.

An invigoratingly mordant comedy that proves that Alexander Payne's rambunctious debut, "Citizen Ruth," was no fluke.

American satire rarely comes more winning than Election, an exuberantly caustic comedy that shows the symbiotic relationship between political go-get-'em-ism and moral backsliding.

One of the funniest, shrewdest, smartest movies in recent memory.

A wonderful, piercing and hilarious examination of high school politics and how bitter and ruinous it can become.

With Election, Payne announces himself as one of the keenest purveyors of the scattered pieces that once was an American morality.

Alexander Payne's scathing, subtle, and complexly funny tragicomedy builds a perfect, off-kilter universe--it's a first cousin to "Rushmore."

This is a nearly flawless little film, a cheerful nightmare that knows just where it wants to go and uses precisely calibrated comic effects to get there.

Resonates with the fluorescent horror of real-life high school, something few movies about this generation have managed to successfully capture.

Wickedly funny, scathingly original new comedy.