Ed Park, Village Voice
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For 148 reviews, this critic has graded:
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27% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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69% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Ed Park's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 47 |
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| Highest review score: |
Critic Score
90
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10
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 148
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Mixed: 79 out of 148
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Negative: 40 out of 148
148
movie reviews
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Ed Park 90
A horror story, told with Dickensian compassion, permeating outrage, and little hope. -
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Ed Park 80
This latest and biggest installment is a whimsical success of a very high order: The pace never lags, the invention is incessant, and it makes you want to have a bite of cheese afterward. -
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Ed Park 80
That the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that Chin's film serves up with style and empathy. -
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Ed Park 80
Both a heartwarming tribute to the late Beatle and a study of hair patterns in the aging British male, Concert for George, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall a year to the day after Harrison's death, manages both reverence and joy. -
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Ed Park 80
Brims with storytelling flourishes and gently deployed life lessons that even accompanying adults may dig -
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Ed Park 80
E J-Yong's transposition illuminates, with satisfying crispness, the hyper-Confucian high society of the time, as well as the underground Catholic movement. -
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Ed Park 80
Dodgeball is the most satisfying comedy of the past year--at least among the ones starring Stiller. -
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Ed Park 70
Several sharp jolts give the doc its dramatic shape, and one episode in particular, caught with a neighbor's lens, will make you gasp with grief. -
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Ed Park 70
Taut even when ridiculous, with flashes of comedy, 3-Iron has less to offer than its predecessors, but at minimum it's the playful exhaustion of a formal constraint. -
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Ed Park 70
The multiple story lines can feel choppy, but the dialogue has snap, and the pants' powers never distract from the teenagers' emotions. -
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Ed Park 70
Fun and nourishing, Charlie's the topsy-turvy equivalent of a three-course dinner in a single stick of gum. -
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Ed Park 70
Though the film lacks some of the paper incarnation's subtlety, Dai's infidelity to his own text keeps things interesting. He busts the book's brief time frame, tweaks countless plot points, and tops it all off with a titanic metaphor not found in his own pages. -
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Ed Park 70
A sign of The Baxter's charm is that it's essentially spoiler-proof: We know from the get-go which couples will pair off, and the pleasures lie in the spring-stepped vibe, the natty throwback wardrobe, and the intricate goofball patter. -
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Ed Park 70
Nathalie is intricate, provocative, cleanly acted, but it's never entirely convincing--and never more so than in the table-turning climax. -
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Ed Park 70
Kurt Russell is terrific as coach Herb Brooks, psychological tactician out to redeem his being cut from the 1960 U.S. squad, the last one to beat the CCCP. -
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Ed Park 70
In their randomness, the bee words take on an oracular quality--shades of kabbalistic gematria, or the "Sortes Vergilanae," the supernatural attributed to symbols on paper. -
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Ed Park 70
Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman. -
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Ed Park 70
Eliminates much of its source's plot, focusing on the book's first third. The result is a crisply shot chamber piece for husband, wife, and boy. -
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Ed Park 70
Chamber's charm lies in the sheer visualization of Rowling's weirder inventions: pots of shrivel-phizzed screaming treelets, Harry's arm gone boneless from a bungled spell, a scolding letter from home that leaps to life as a yapping paper mouth. -
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Ed Park 70
Jessica Yu's elegant new doc In the Realms of the Unreal is a spry, creative response to his (Darger's) oceanic talent and claustrophobic life. -
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Ed Park 70
Braff's naive romanticism is also lovely proof of the film's innocent heart. -
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Ed Park 70
An unstoppable good-mood generator, the resolutely 2-D SpongeBob SquarePants Movie has more yuks than "Shark Tale" and enough soul to swallow "The Polar Express" whole. -
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Ed Park 70
Though the characters are in fact sustained improvisations, the roles feel inhabited rather than acted -- a quality acutely present in scenes of excruciating awkwardness. -
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Ed Park 60
One leaves the film with the Twilight Zone sense that the place isn't quite the hellhole prior reports have suggested. -
