Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
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For 1,351 reviews, this critic has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Jack Mathews' Scores
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| Average review score: | 60 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 795 out of 1351
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Mixed: 281 out of 1351
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Negative: 275 out of 1351
1,351
movie reviews
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Jack Mathews 100
This year’s foreign language Oscar scandal – there is always at least one – is the snub of director Cristian Mungiu’s disturbing, masterful realist drama following two college roommates as they carry out plans for one’s black market abortion in Communist Romania. -
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Jack Mathews 100
A critic trots out the word "masterpiece" at his own peril, but there it is. -
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Jack Mathews 100
"Letters" isn't about numbers or the battle or even the morality of war. It's about the sanctity of life and how we value our own. -
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Jack Mathews 100
The most emotionally satisfying because, in addition to having both more intimate drama and more spectacular battles, it resolves all of the issues raised before. -
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Jack Mathews 100
The biggest little movie of the year - and one of the best ever about the news media. -
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Jack Mathews 100
Whether the movie will make you believe a shocking-orange stock car has a future with a lavender Carrera, it's more fun to follow than a televised freeway chase. -
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Jack Mathews 100
America's favorite superhero reappears in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, and all we can say is, "Man, oh Man of Steel, it's good to have you back." -
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Jack Mathews 100
Though Borat has been likened to "Jackass," there's a huge difference. The "Jackass" movies are about extreme stunts. Borat is about interaction and gullibility, and its success is unique to both Cohen and to this one-time-only movie. -
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Jack Mathews 100
Hudson, taking over the role of Effie played on stage by Jennifer Holliday, is in charge of Dreamgirls from her opening scene, blowing away Grammy-winner Beyoncé Knowles, Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx and anyone else who gets in her way. -
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Jack Mathews 100
The incredibly moving post-9/11 drama Reign Over Me proves that behind the funny guy facades of former standup comedians Mike Binder and Adam Sandler are a pair of very serious talents. -
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Jack Mathews 100
A great big sloppy kiss of entertainment for audiences weary of explosions, CGI effects and sequels, sequels, sequels. -
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Jack Mathews 100
One of the most skillful, mesmerizing, tense and satisfying time-warp thrillers ever made. -
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Jack Mathews 100
Universally appealing story that plays as well now as it did on opening day a half-century ago. Maybe better. -
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Jack Mathews 100
One of the most original and ultimately confounding mind games to reach the screen since "The Usual Suspects." -
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Jack Mathews 100
Don't miss The Fast Runner. If you do, you will deprive yourself of not only one of the most intriguing feature-film projects in decades and enough plain-spoken anthropology for three credits at Harvard, but one of the most flat-out entertaining movies of the year. -
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Jack Mathews 100
It's an antidote to complacency. The question is, whom is it trying to wake up? -
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Jack Mathews 100
"Amadeus is about as close to perfection as movies get," I wrote in 1984. Now, it's 20 minutes closer. -
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Jack Mathews 100
Levinson is so skillful at developing personalities, even among the story's would-be villains, that by the halfway point of the movie, every gesture and expression has unexpected depth and texture. The performances are across-the-board superb. -
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Jack Mathews 100
As darkness falls over the movie landscape comes the year's darkest and best movie of them all - Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams. -
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Jack Mathews 100
For sheer bravura film making, for creating a cartoon world with real air, flesh, blood and the exhilarating cycle of fear and escape, Dinosaur is tops. -
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