Jay Carr, Boston Globe
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For 727 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 6.6 points higher than other critics.
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Jay Carr's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 519 out of 727
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Mixed: 114 out of 727
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Negative: 94 out of 727
727
movie reviews
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Jay Carr 100
Stillman has become a master at escalating the laughter by waiting an extra beat and then understating something devastatingly funny, as when someone looks Chris Eigeman's club manager, Des, in the eye and says, "I consider you a person of integrity - except, you know, in the matter of women." -
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Jay Carr 100
Films that achieve the dimension of seraphic embrace achieved by 'Innocence, as it explores a return to first love, are the rarest of the rare. -
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Jay Carr 100
The sly and subtle Minus Man is a wicked little sidewinder of a black comedy. -
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Jay Carr 100
Roberts and Erin Brockovich have Oscar contender written all over them. -
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Jay Carr 100
With Carrey hitting a career peak, this Grinch doesn't steal Christmas; it restores the season by helping energize us enough to make it through the whole thing. -
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Jay Carr 100
One of the year's most winning performances, Logue's Dex will grow on you as he stumbles toward emotional fullness. -
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Jay Carr 100
Slly, sublime, buoyant mischief that is virtually without parallel in 20th-century art, much less 20th-century film. -
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Jay Carr 100
A gorgeous autumnal period piece that catches a vanishing proprietary class on the eve of its extinction in Ireland in 1920. -
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Jay Carr 100
The story is spun forth ravishingly, tenderly, and urgently, with a captivating mix of beauty, spare sophistication, and profound humanity. -
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Jay Carr 100
You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of works in any given year to which one is moved to apply the word ''masterpiece.'' Raul Ruiz's Time Regained is one of them. -
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Jay Carr 100
Deeper and richer in humanity than all but a handful of the American films released this year. -
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Jay Carr 100
Simple, but loaded. It celebrates the humanity and humanism at the heart of Iran's remarkable flow of films, but it's also more of a rebuke to materialistic values than any ideologue could ever hope to be. -
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Jay Carr 100
We're in a golden age of comedy, and one of the reasons is Margaret Cho. -
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Jay Carr 100
Few, if any, films this year will approach, let alone equal, Autumn Tale in its subtle sparkle. -
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Jay Carr 100
Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored. -
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Jay Carr 100
Satisfying in every respect, it's a piece of blue-collar chamber music, never treating the characters cheaply, allowing them a complex entwinement of emotions. -
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Jay Carr 100
Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness. -
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Jay Carr 100
An invigoratingly mordant comedy that proves that Alexander Payne's rambunctious debut, "Citizen Ruth," was no fluke. -
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Jay Carr 100
In a crisply restored print, it's as joyous as ever. We loved them - yeah, yeah, yeah. Now we can love them all over again. -
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Jay Carr 100
"In Cold Blood," "Badlands," "The Executioner's Song," and now, joining those grisly milestones on the heartland hit list, and every bit their equal, is Boys Don't Cry. -
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Jay Carr 100
Music for the eyes. That's why it has become a treasured classic. That's why we'll see it again and again. -
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Jay Carr 100
It's terse, atmospheric, fatalistic, with vertiginous camera angles and edits offsetting its gray documentary flatness. -
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Jay Carr 100
Farnsworth's embodiment of old American values, with their combination of delicacy, reserve, and stand-alone independence, is a one-of-a-kind treasure. -
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Jay Carr 100
The surehandedly wrought, beautifully acted, almost unbearably tense In the Bedroom is a rare film, not to be missed. -
