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.
(0-100 point scale)
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 75
Somewhat sanitized but gorgeous Americana, with another impressive turn by McTeer. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's the kind of movie you can settle into, secure in the expectation that you can steal from it more than a little vintage Allen fun. -
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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
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
Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is. -
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Jay Carr 75
Made of a serene dynamite that's all but unknown to American film audiences. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's a snazzy, smartly made, and even hip little scarefest. As a jump-start to Halloween, it's all you could hope for. -
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Jay Carr 75
There's almost too much there, but the three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms. -
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Jay Carr 75
Risks seeming too earnestly therapeutic for its own good. But what makes My First Mister a successful feature directing debut for Lahti is the emotional veracity it summons. -
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Jay Carr 75
Shadow Magic isn't interested in psychology or character study. It's a series of tableaux and on that level succeeds admirably. -
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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
You can't help cheering on Shallow Hal. That and the fact that it's not at all politically correct. It's something better. It's big-hearted, and it's funny. -
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Jay Carr 75
There's nothing major here, certainly nothing on the order of my favorite among Allen's retro workouts of the past decade, ''Bullets Over Broadway.'' But it's entertaining all the same. -
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Jay Carr 75
Wrestling gets in America's face and Blaustein gets in wrestling's face. It's a fascinating tango. -
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Jay Carr 75
Light on its feet and reveling in its deviousness, it stays one step ahead of us . -
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Jay Carr 75
Despite its conceptual shortfall, is worth seeing, if only to update yourself on what can emerge from a keyboard these days. -
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Jay Carr 75
Turbo-charged wallbanger with the IQ of a tire iron. But it jumps off the screen with the mindless panache of a good bad movie. -
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Jay Carr 75
A seductively corrosive horror story that also potently suggests the ways war can shatter childhood. -
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Jay Carr 75
Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us. -
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Jay Carr 75
Boldly goes where Hollywood rarely treads: into the passionate, intense, and complex world of girls at the point in their lives when self-discovery is combined with enormous vulnerability. -
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Jay Carr 75
From beginning to end, it bristles with ironies in classic Eastern European absurdist style. -
