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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3% same as the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.7 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
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movie reviews
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Jay Carr 63
What makes it worth sitting through is the chance it offers to catch up on the technical advances since the last installment. -
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Jay Carr 63
Recedes to a string of mere action exploits. These are proficiently executed but, for all their visual authority, not much more than routine. -
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Jay Carr 63
A strong ending might have obscured the mediocrity in the writing, or at least diverted us, but the ending is sentimental where it needed to be hard-edged and comically merciless. For a film about people hurtling forward, Rat Race is pretty pedestrian. -
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Jay Carr 63
It's a small film, and a far from perfect one, but it allows her (Theron) to extend her range as no previous role has done. -
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Jay Carr 63
While the appeal of Guinevere is decidedly intermittent, it's there, and the acting is right on the money. -
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Jay Carr 63
It's the cinematic equivalent of one of those prop guns where you pull the trigger and a little flag comes out of the barrel, waving gaily. -
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Jay Carr 63
As cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable. -
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Jay Carr 63
Character is almost wholly subordinated to a blast-furnace rendering of the hell into which they're dumped. Seldom will you see so many US military body parts strewn around a movie screen. -
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Jay Carr 63
In the end, it's the snatches of music, mangled as it is, and the mechanics of staging it, in the absence of Leigh's usual raw, urgent psychic collisions, that keep Topsy-Turvy from seeming merely a gorgeous wax museum. -
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Jay Carr 63
Good enough, but only just. It's got the hardware, but neither the characters, the imagination, nor the resonance one had hoped for. -
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Jay Carr 63
Provoke us into examining whether the onus is on the man for turning it into a commercial proposition or the woman for agreeing to his offer. -
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Jay Carr 63
At least Dragonfly isn't contemptible or altogether dismissible. But it doesn't use Costner well, and it even more unforgivably wastes Kathy Bates. -
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Jay Carr 63
2000 isn't about nobility and humility; saving the planet from evil collectors is what sells video games. -
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Jay Carr 63
By any other standard, the creatures in Monsters, Inc. would be impressive. But by the high standard Pixar not only set itself, but invented, they're only ordinary. -
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Jay Carr 63
I'm not sure that I really want to see "Scream 3,'" but Craven, Williamson, and the screamers certainly bring this one off by not only slapping all their cards on the table, but insisting we admire the way they play them. -
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Jay Carr 63
The film keeps being yanked back from nothingness by this or that clever sendup, delivered by a small army of invigorated performers who seem to push off from one another's energy levels. -
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Jay Carr 63
Too bad The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations. It has more going for it than you might suppose. -
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Jay Carr 63
The most traditional of Hollywood romances, in that it's resolutely about nice people with nice problems. -
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Jay Carr 63
Far too long, but its rambunctiousness is engaging, propelled by Stone's virtuosic quick-cutting. -
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Jay Carr 63
You keep waiting for it to go into orbit, to be really fizzy and outrageous, like the screwball farce it wants to be. Instead, the film settles for the merely serviceable. -
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Jay Carr 63
It's too circumscribed and polite for the story it's telling, curiously deficient in the unexpected. -
