Ann Hornaday, Baltimore Sun
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For 154 reviews, this critic has graded:
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48% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Ann Hornaday's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 62 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 95 out of 154
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Mixed: 22 out of 154
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Negative: 37 out of 154
154
movie reviews
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Ann Hornaday 100
Affliction turns the sound on with sudden, crystalline clarity, and echoes with the haunting power of a suppressed truth that has finally been released. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Compulsion, self-deception and the slippery nature of evil are explored with fidelity and supreme control . -
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Ann Hornaday 100
A revealing, intimate, quirky and generous portrait of nothing less than the American Dream. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
A thoroughly absorbing, even transfixing, journey to a future that may already be upon us. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
A big, fat old-fashioned gush of passion as drawn through a post-modernist prism that makes it less easily comprehensible but more beguiling. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
It's a miracle: A tough, honest, bloody film set so far from the bright lights it feels as if it's on a different planet, yet knowable and absolutely compelling from start to finish. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Prove(s) once again how ingenious, artful and flat-out entertaining animation can be. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
The title represents size and power, speed and hubris -- the very things the ship has come to stand for and the things that Cameron has restored to the cinema with grand, generous style. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Smart, funny and often viciously cruel, this is a romantic comedy for people who are too old to believe in fairyales but wise enough to accept a happy ending when that's what life gives them. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Actually moves, whisking the audience on a funny, sad and extraordinary journey through a singularly compelling moment in American pop culture. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
This smart, fanciful and brilliantly staged comedy takes a truly one-of-a-kind premise and makes it, of all things, a weirdly profound meditation on consciousness, identity, fame, gender and reality. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
The Cider House Rules is about many things -- chance, passivity, free will and self-invention -- but ultimately it comes back to Larch, who emerges as a toweringly noble figure even in his weakest moments. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
The kind of movie that gives mainstream Hollywood star vehicles a good name. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
McTeer delivers a messily cheerful performance as a woman who thinks nothing of brushing her teeth with beer. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
Taymor conjures images that are as indelible as they are wordlessly articulate. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
(Penn)'s is a lovely, soulful performance in a movie that manages to imbue tragedy with just the right grace note of insouciance -- a movie worthy of Woody Allen himself. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
It gets under your skin and into your head, and you don't want it to leave. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
A grand, sweeping nostalgia trip that evokes the sickness of an era even as it tries to find its essential humanity. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
The conventional and the cliche are slam-dunked in favor of a fresh, authentic take on passion, ambition and coming of age. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
Accomplishes a delicate balancing act, that of entertaining the audience with the thrills and adventure of the Andrea Gail's final journey. -
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Ann Hornaday 88
The only thing missing from this rich production is an emotional charge, which Highsmith could create on the page but which Minghella doesn't quite capture on screen. -
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Ann Hornaday 75
If The Eyes of Tammy Faye is skimpy, it's still an important correction to the record about this fascinating and misunderstood woman, who turns out to be much more than just her makeup. -
