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 6.7 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
727
movie reviews
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Jay Carr 88
There's plenty of invention and exuberant vigor in the chopsocky, and Wilson's cool, ironic drollery provides the perfect foil for Chan's heroics. -
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Jay Carr 88
Haunting, powerfully acted, penetratingly written, it's about people coming home -- and not coming home -- to their marriages. -
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Jay Carr 88
A perfect example of a small, well-made, and (in its central role) rivetingly acted film. -
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Jay Carr 88
If there is any message in Tarkovsky's work, although as a poet he would never stoop to anything as banal as a message, it is that life is an internal affair, played out in one's soul, not in public. -
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Jay Carr 88
You'll care what happens in this film with more than enough freshness and originality to avoid succumbing to girls-on-the-run cliches. -
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Jay Carr 88
Nobody's going to think of The Score as trail-blazing, but there's nothing small-time about its dramatic and acting payoff. -
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Jay Carr 88
In all respects, from choice of material to fullness of execution on every level, The War Zone is an extraordinary piece of work. -
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Jay Carr 88
It's filled with vivid characters and action. Beneath its modesty of gesture, it's one of the year's richest, most humane films. -
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Jay Carr 88
A witty yet fiery and, in the best sense, provocative play of ideas about freedom of expression. -
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Jay Carr 88
Bell is utterly persuasive as the boy literally yearning to leap beyond the oppressively apparent confines of his world. -
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Jay Carr 88
Miraculously, the opera comes off, simultaneously ridiculous and thrilling, in a blaze of pageantry. -
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Jay Carr 88
The bleakness of Rosetta will not be for all, but it's one of the best films of the year. -
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Jay Carr 88
Most of all it's the emotional and spiritual arc of an exile, in all its terrible isolation, that gives ''Before Night Falls'' its power. -
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Jay Carr 88
Ullmann's film is an achievement of heart and consequence, as full of integrity as Bergman, yet demonstrating more mercy. -
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Jay Carr 88
A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace. -
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Jay Carr 88
It's sweeping yet intimate, stately yet impassioned, stylized yet immediate. -
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Jay Carr 88
After revitalizing baseball movies with "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham," he's now three for three with the funny, quirky, rueful, and richly textured For Love of the Game. -
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Jay Carr 88
While it preserves his baseball feats, it looks beyond them to clarify Greenberg's place in American culture. -
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Jay Carr 88
It's much closer to a European film in sensibility than to one of Hollywood's factory products. -
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Jay Carr 88
There was little mirth or innocence in the world that Wharton was able to write her way out of (she was much happier living in Paris), and Davies and his leading lady lift the silks to reveal it as the minefield it was. -
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Jay Carr 88
'Titanic'' was a case of a cheeseball story riding terrific effects. The Perfect Storm is in every important way deeper. -
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Jay Carr 88
What you're not prepared for in Marziyeh Meshkini's astonishing debut film is the way its central image instantly leaps into the pantheon of world cinema with a rightness and an urgency that glue your eyes to the screen. -
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Jay Carr 88
He's (Dafoe) the stuff bad dreams are made of. He's also the best movie vampire since Schreck's original. He deserves a bloody Oscar. -
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Jay Carr 88
Plays like a dislocated version of ''Death in Venice,'' but in a dryer, higher climate that features exponentially more firepower. -
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Jay Carr 88
It's a meditation on life and death, but it's less somber and more light-handed, subtle, and mischievously funny. -
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Jay Carr 88
The film's triumph - and it is a triumph - in the end rests on the ability of Hrebejk and his actors to convince us that they never stop being normal people. -
