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 6.5 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 75
Filled with affection and verve and will do very nicely until the next shipment of Latin jazz comes along. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's all glossy urban fairy-tale stuff, laid on with style to spare, given added resonance by a mini-pantheon of French movie goddesses. -
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Jay Carr 75
Goes soft in the end, but not ruinously so. Meanwhile, its loose cannons bounce off one another deliciously. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's rare that a crime movie achieves such emotional complexity, but this one is smartly layered. -
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Jay Carr 75
Gallo has delivered a clever suspense comedy that, thanks to a taut script, creative direction, and first-rate performances from its leads, gives Double Take more weight than one would expect from a genre crowd-pleaser. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's one of the few films that persuades you that it went out to meet the war and bring it to us with verisimilitude. -
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Jay Carr 75
I'd take a chance on it anyway, even if it stumbles and loses its way. -
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Jay Carr 75
Branagh and Love's Labour's Lost all but will themselves into liftoff. They achieve it, and in doing so, they somehow make it right to our pleasure centers with their generous embrace of stardust and pizazz. -
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Jay Carr 75
Is a chamber romance, in that there's nothing grand or sweeping about it, but it's got all the style it needs to go with those glorious Tuscan settings. -
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Jay Carr 75
The performances are disarming and Mumford is the kind of comedy that grows on you if you give it a chance. -
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Jay Carr 75
A deft, elegant, melancholy tapestry of flawed outreach, and the big reason it succeeds is Podeswa's courage in dispensing with a lot of exposition and trusting the audience - and the faces of the actors - to fill a lot of what otherwise would be gaps. -
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Jay Carr 75
Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it. -
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Jay Carr 75
Avoids the potentially suffocating pall of uplift hovering over its quite exhilarating story. -
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Jay Carr 75
Movingly recounts a hitherto untold story in the voices of the people who lived it. -
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Jay Carr 75
Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy. -
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Jay Carr 75
What Merchant, Ivory and Co. arrive at is a sort of handsomely illustrated Cliffs Notes version of the novel. -
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Jay Carr 75
Both a lovingly crafted remembrance of things past and a deliberate broadening and darkening of the canvas Levinson previously filled in "Diner," "Tin Men," and "Avalon." -
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Jay Carr 75
The sweetly enticing Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire repays the bit of patience it asks. -
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Jay Carr 75
The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness. -
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Jay Carr 75
Less elliptical and more down-and-dirty than Lang's interesting debut film, ''The Well,'' this one tumbles through Sydney's academic and alternative poetry circles and is built around a lesbian private eye. -
