Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
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For 389 reviews, this critic has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.4 points higher than other critics.
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Elvis Mitchell's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 248 out of 389
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Mixed: 124 out of 389
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Negative: 17 out of 389
389
movie reviews
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Elvis Mitchell 80
What especially elevates it is the razor-sharp cleverness of McKellen's performance, which brings unusual fullness and feeling to a most unusual man. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Though in essence this is little more than a girls' romance novel brought to life, it has been filled with heart and humor. The place, the people and even the largely predictable situations in which they find themselves are presented in an entirely winning way. [21 Oct 1988] -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Directed by Eastwood with righteous indignation and increasingly strong momentum. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
To their credit, the actors immerse themselves deeply in the film's self-conscious aura. Ms. Sheedy reinvents herself as a tough, fascinating presence, while Ms. Mitchell's earnest bewilderment also serves the story well. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Horrocks's phenomenal mimicry of musical grande dames...makes a splendid centerpiece for the otherwise more ordinary film built around it. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Suspicious and hilariously self-absorbed, Favreau's every bit as comfortable in California as Charles Grodin's "Heartbreak Kid" was in Miami. [18 October 1996, p. C3] -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Smith's knowing humor and unruffled style make a good antidote to gender chaos. Music by David Pirner contributes to the film's loose, inviting mood. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
This film's very lack of surprise and sophistication accounts for a lot of its considerable charm. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
The film is loaded with brotherly affection and with warm, funny and poignant evocations of a gentler time.[20 September 1996, p.C12] -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Combine two stars of this wattage with a lot of techno-talk and elaborate heist plotting and you get plenty of good reasons to pay attention. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
The filmmaker creates schematic, intuitive images that hauntingly crystallize the characters' situations. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
What emerges, in the end, are a clever premise that has been allowed to go awry and several performances that are lively and unpredictable enough to transcend the confusion. Mr. Bridges, always a fine intuitive actor, has never displayed a greater range. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
The film's mix of romance and reading matter is seductive in its own right, providing comfy book-lined settings and people who are what they read and write. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
A romantic comedy that's a hoot in every sense, worth a smidgen of disapproval and a whole lot of helpless laughter...The film works ridiculously well because it never stoops to being mean-spirited or (despite all appearances) authentically inane. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
The don't quite do for "Oklahoma!" what they did for heavy metal, but they come close. [31 Jan 1997, p.C6] -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
It has a hurtling pace, nonstop intensity and a stylish, appealing performance by Will Smith in his first real starring role. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
This is hot-weather escapism so earnestly retrograde that it seems new. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Like a great chef concocting an exquisite peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, Mr. Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Made with such overriding jubilation that its coarseness is mostly liberating...well worth admiring for its sheer glee. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
The movie's special gift happens to be Mark Wahlberg, who gives a terrifically appealing performance in this tricky role. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Watching it amble along is enough of a treat, since the Coens populate this story with oddballs and bowling balls of such comic variety. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
One of this film's greatest accomplishments is its making an audience believe that the Corleones and their various partners in crime have been entirely in character during the intervening decades, but have simply neglected to turn up on screen. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Tykwer deliberately blows away all traces of the mundane and the familiar, so that not even the closing credit crawl moves in the expected way. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Violent as it is on the surface, Akira is tranquil at its core. The story's sanest characters plead for the wise use of mankind's frightening new powers, lending the whole film the feeling of a cautionary tale. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
The stylish irreverence of Trainspotting mimics that drug high and delivers its own potent kick. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Warm, affecting and refreshingly shtickless, he (Carrey) occupies center stage here through sheer, beguiling force of personality. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Fortunately, Hicks's direction has an elegance and dignity that rescue Shine from the exploitative and give the film an acute, genuinely sensitive style. -
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Elvis Mitchell 80
Benigni effectively creates a situation in which comedy is courage. And he draws from this an unpretentious, enormously likable film that plays with history both seriously and mischievously. Piety has no place here, nor do tears until the final reel. Life is Beautiful plays by its own rules -
