Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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For 982 reviews, this critic has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.1 points higher than other critics.
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Ann Hornaday's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 581 out of 982
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Mixed: 220 out of 982
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Negative: 181 out of 982
982
movie reviews
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Ann Hornaday 80
Dworkin, having led viewers so deeply into her subjects' lives, resists coercing them into any pat conclusions. We're left to wonder about Love and Diane -– and root for them -– on our own. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Engaging, witty and touching film, one that defies categories to become a romantic comedy, historical biopic and philosophical rumination, all in one. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
For filmgoers whose idea of a good time is getting the stuffing scared out of them (who are you guys, anyway?), Signs should prove to be time well spent. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
It testifies to art's vitality and endurance, despite its marketers' -- and sometimes even its makers' -- efforts to the contrary. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
May well wind up being the smartest bonehead comedy of the summer. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Blessedly free of the self-righteous histrionics and sentimentality that so often cheapen powerful personal stories. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
The Cortez family flies into action with the same testy family dynamics, silly humor and cool gadgetry that animated the first Spy Kids. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Kwietniowski has managed to create a surprisingly engrossing and suspenseful narrative without resorting to cosmetics, melodrama or hype. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Spielberg's dark side may not be where everyone wants to live, but it's somehow encouraging to know that he has one. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
A true original, thanks to some memorable characters, an engaging story and a thrilling classical soundtrack. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
A bummer, but one that manages to stick to its depraved convictions until the strange and bitter end. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
It's a gentle, surprising little movie whose rewards lie in what its characters don't say as much as in what they do. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Riveting, gracefully constructed film. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Pirates of the Caribbean moves easily from sunny 18th-century seafaring adventure to creepy zombie flick and back again. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
An absorbing and inspiring portrait of two musicians whose unerring sense of what's right -- both artistically and ethically -- has not just held them in good stead but driven their particular brand of success. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Isn't everyone's cup of tea -- as the Polishes admit in a clever bit of critical preemption -- but it possesses an undeniable, haunting grandeur. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put a viewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Efficient, precise, carefully calibrated and terrifically entertaining. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Belongs, wholly and completely, to Clarkson, who delivers Joy's mordant asides and withering observations with a flawless balance of tartness and vulnerability. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
The film leaves viewers with the sad, even tragic sense that his legacy would have been more profound had he gotten out of his own way. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
A movie that, in the story of one man dying, shows us all how to live. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
Still, it's difficult to hold his whoppers against him. In creating characters of such spirit and life, and in imagining such a vibrant, imaginative homage to the transformative powers of love, Kramer, more than most, has earned the right to push his luck. -
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Ann Hornaday 80
A movie suffused with a warm glow of nostalgia for times and music and movies gone by. -
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