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Elephant (2003)

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A day in the lives of a group of average teenage high school students. The film follows every character and shows their daily routines. Things go extreme when two students arrive with violent intentions. 
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Empire Magazine
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April 01, 2006

Van Sant's least 'show-offy', most personal, best picture in years (maybe ever), and an honourable attempt at respectfully considering the unbearable.
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Common Sense Media
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August 03, 2012

Director Gus Van Sant takes a powerful approach to this material, without being heavy-handed.
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AV Club
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April 24, 2013

Elephant creates gorgeous, wide-open spaces that allow viewers the freedom to reflect without having a point-of-view imposed on them.
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
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October 18, 2005

A failure to communicate
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Associated Press
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April 24, 2013

The approach is oddly riveting, though, because the tension builds slowly, and you know what's going to happen at the end of the day.
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Cinemaphile.org
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May 14, 2014

Watching it, one is left with the cold realization that a story like this had to be made for the screen, and it had to be done so exactly with this level of intensity.
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New Yorker

April 24, 2013

Gus Van Sant's fascinating, mysterious, semidocumentary meditation on the Columbine massacre is not very satisfying, but it's still something to see.
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Cinema Crazed
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April 29, 2009

One of the most disturbing films I've ever seen, one that gave me a rush of emotions of sadness, horror, disbelief, shock, and anguish.
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Time Out
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January 26, 2006

The film doesn't try to explain, but to put us in a subjective time and space, a place where it's impossible not to feel the abject horror of random violence.
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Urban Cinefile
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October 18, 2008

One of the most stimulating and provocative films of the year.
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Wall Street Journal
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April 24, 2013

What I'll remember most vividly about Gus Van Sant's extraordinary "Elephant" is not the violent climax but the state of grace that precedes it.
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New York Magazine/Vulture

August 07, 2004

Elephant is a lurid tease posing as an art film.
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