Ann Hornaday, Baltimore Sun
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For 156 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 2.7 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: 96 out of 156
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Mixed: 22 out of 156
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Negative: 38 out of 156
156
movie reviews
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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
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
A thoroughly absorbing, even transfixing, journey to a future that may already be upon us. -
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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
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
Prove(s) once again how ingenious, artful and flat-out entertaining animation can be. -
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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Taymor conjures images that are as indelible as they are wordlessly articulate. -
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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
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 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 75
There's good trash: throwaway, intellectually undemanding action movies that, despite their heavy body counts and hard edges, are executed with a touch of class and a sunny disposition. -
