Anita Gates, The New York Times
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For 39 reviews, this critic has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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12% same as the average critic
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35% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5 points lower than other critics.
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Anita Gates' Scores
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| Average review score: | 54 |
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90
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30
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 39
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Mixed: 23 out of 39
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Negative: 5 out of 39
39
movie reviews
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Anita Gates 90
The most horrifying thing in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's fiercely original, thrillingly creepy Pulse (released as "Kairo," or "Circuit," in Japan) is the way the ghosts move. -
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Anita Gates 70
A significant development turns Susan Kaplan's documentary into a thought-provoking story. -
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Anita Gates 70
Makes it case expertly and powerfully, but it does not propose a solution. The cumulative effect of the film's message is enormous sadness that hate is so strong and so resistant to reason. -
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Anita Gates 70
Anne Fontaine's seductive film Nathalie is mostly about French star power and sex, so it's somewhat surprising that it is also subtle and intriguing. -
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Anita Gates 70
Touching, intelligent and admirably thoughtful, but more action-packed than its predecessors, thanks to escaped convicts, a local murder and a truly suspenseful finale, with lives at stake. -
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Anita Gates 70
Cube, the story in question, proves surprisingly gripping, in the best ''Twilight Zone'' tradition. -
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Anita Gates 70
Rick King's stirring documentary Voices in Wartime is not, as you might guess from the title, a compilation of soldiers' battlefield letters to their families back home. This intense little film is about poetry, and not just Homer's "Iliad." -
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Anita Gates 70
It isn't often that you see a film about Israelis and Palestinians that can be called hopeful, but Ronit Avni's assured, thoughtful and clear-eyed documentary certainly qualifies. -
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Anita Gates 70
This is a sweet adventure story for children. (Surely, American parents can deal with the bare breasts of one talking painting.) For adults it is short on narrative sophistication but visually a true objet d’art.- Posted May 9, 2013
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Anita Gates 60
There is occasionally some gorgeous scenery, and the challenge of driving through silt is mildly interesting. -
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Anita Gates 60
Mr. Coyote, who appears to be playing Steven Spielberg and steals every scene he is in. -
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Anita Gates 60
The film is an unabashed promotion for space exploration. -
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Anita Gates 60
Sheriff may have a point to make about the impact of family, roots and religion on the changing face of rural America, but the film, while admirably restrained and competently made, is too polite to clarify that. -
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Anita Gates 60
Dan Harnden's screenplay keeps things relatively interesting, despite the very thin plot. -
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Anita Gates 60
Mr. Wranovics sometimes goes too far in setting up cute situations for filming witnesses' comments. -
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Anita Gates 60
This is certainly competent filmmaking, sort of like a long “60 Minutes” segment without the confrontational interview style.- Posted May 16, 2013
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Anita Gates 50
Wants to be both heartwarming and quirky but is sometimes just cutesy instead. -
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Anita Gates 50
It does have the feel of farce at times, but much of the time it just seems determined to shock. -
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Anita Gates 50
A one-dimensional romantic comedy that feels like an old-fashioned vehicle picture, the kind the big movie studios used to make in the 1930's and 40's just to bring in the fans of a particular actor or actress. -
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Anita Gates 50
Jake Wade Wall's screenplay does deserve a word of praise. It has managed to incorporate the advent of cellphones, the *69 command and caller ID, which could have easily made the entire story impossible. -
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Anita Gates 50
Both Ms. Angelou and Ms. Tyson deliver powerful, touching messages. Just as they're sinking in, the film turns into an unabashed chick flick with a painfully gaudy wedding that includes live angels hanging on wires from the ceiling. -
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Anita Gates 50
This is a one-dimensional, sometimes illogical film, but it's certainly good-looking. -
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Anita Gates 50
There is something good-natured about Jaan-E-Mann that makes it possible to forgive its many faults -- even the film's opening, a "2001: A Space Odyssey" ripoff with a space station gliding through the cosmos to the tune of the "Blue Danube" Waltz. -
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Anita Gates 40
Watching the rest of Damon Dash's playful movie is like entering a room where a large, too noisy party is going on and never fully adjusting to the dark or the din. -
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Anita Gates 40
Venom certainly can't be called a good movie, but within its genre it's perfectly palatable. -
