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 0.5 points higher than other critics.
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Jack Mathews' Scores
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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 75
A personal eulogy, from one artist to another, and an indictment of all systems of government that deny people the right to free expression and the full realization of their talent. -
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Jack Mathews 75
The story is fascinating for its simplicity and its inherent truths about the downside of progress. -
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Jack Mathews 75
The performances are first-rate, with the always inventive Macy a standout as the hopeful, tormented Chappy, and Zahn a scream as the lovably imbecilic Wayne. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Hand-held cameras give their surface showbiz relationship a sense of immediacy that, like love itself, has more than a hint of danger. -
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Jack Mathews 75
No actress of her generation inhabits characters as thoroughly and convincingly as she (Streep) does, and this performance carries the movie -
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Jack Mathews 75
It provides the first genuine laughs I've had at the movies in this young year. -
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Jack Mathews 75
This is melodrama with broad theatrical flourishes, but Dietrich's sensuality is still a natural wonder, and with a new print, the Film Forum run offers a rare opportunity to see it big-screen-size. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Looks a lot like 1950s American gangster films -- particularly, John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" -- but it's decidedly French in its sexual candor and moral laissez-faire. -
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Jack Mathews 75
A slog to get through, but Jeanie Drynan's nuanced performance as the enduring matriarch makes it all worthwhile. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Seth, who played Nehru in the Oscar-winning "Gandhi," gives a subtly layered performance as a complex, tormented and very decent man in crisis. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Despite the movie's dramatic weaknesses, I was spellbound by the images. -
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Jack Mathews 75
A relatively straightforward portrait of Holmes, using interviews with family members, friends, wives, X-film producers and his former co-stars. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Joy Ride is plenty spooky but there's also plenty of comic relief -- mostly from the perennially goofy Zahn. -
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Jack Mathews 75
It is remarkably, unsentimentally dramatized by Fred Schepisi, courtesy of the pitch-perfect performances of its ensemble British cast. -
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Jack Mathews 75
The question is not whether the movie exactly duplicates the experience of the book, but whether the movie stands on its own. Angela's Ashes clearly does. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Gaudi Afternoon, adapted from Barbara Wilson's novel, is a setup for a smart ensemble comedy, and the cast delivers in hilarious deadpan style. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Thornton, directing his first film since the minimalist "Sling Blade" (1996), has a much better grip on the material when he's focused on the scruffy desert landscape and the adventures of the two Texans. -
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Jack Mathews 75
I love this series; it's possibly the most exciting use of the documentary medium ever. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Cage is a wonderful light comedian; were someone to remake "It's a Wonderful Life," he'd be on the short list for the role of George Bailey. And Leoni is Donna Reed, reborn. -
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Jack Mathews 75
The documentary plays it down the middle, neither condemning nor romanticizing the political outlaws, but making sense of who they were and what they did. -
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Jack Mathews 75
Rarely does an animated character merge as perfectly with the persona of the actor providing his voice as the star of Monsters, Inc. does with John Goodman. -
