Jean Oppenheimer, Dallas Observer
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For 104 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points higher than other critics.
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Jean Oppenheimer's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 54 out of 104
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Mixed: 39 out of 104
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Negative: 11 out of 104
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movie reviews
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Jean Oppenheimer 80
This intriguing jigsaw puzzle is visually arresting, narratively inventive, and psychologically enigmatic. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 80
Cheadle, always a fine actor, is outstanding here--an almost willfully naive yet uncommonly decent man who sees civilization crashing and burning around him yet who, almost against his own better judgment, refuses to give in to it. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 80
A character study, the film succeeds in large measure due to the kinetically charged performance of Romain Duris. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 80
Alternately heartrending and buoyant, tragic and sweetly humorous, the film leaves an indelible impression on the heart and mind. It's among the best of the year. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 80
Though we know the story's final outcome, the trial scene and its aftermath are no less shocking and affecting. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 80
Packs an unexpected emotional wallop. Gavin Hood's film tells a story of violence and redemption that's even more remarkable when you consider that neither of the lead performers had ever acted in a movie previously. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
Viewers looking for extremely light, romantic entertainment with a guaranteed happy ending could do worse. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
Nothing, however, can diminish the sense of horror we feel at what happened that day in September, while Macdonald's revelations and the candid comments he elicits more than make up for the film's less successful elements. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
The story itself is absolutely amazing, and the sense of outrage it evokes is universal, but director Noyce faces a difficult task in that once the story is set in motion there is very little action, other than walking shots of the girls, and almost no dialogue. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
When all is said and done, Far from Heaven proves an easier film to appreciate than to emotionally embrace. It fails the test of being, in the descriptive phrase of Pauline Kael, "compulsively watchable." -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
That the film is good rather than great proves a disappointment, but just finding a good film these days is rare, especially a big studio picture. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
Pak's writing has a simplicity that belies the film's emotional impact. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
While too many things about the story don't ring true for the film as a whole to work, there is enough in Next Stop Wonderland to keep the viewer wide awake and entertained. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
Despite the idealized portrait of Kelly and the very predictable plot, the film proves engaging, thanks in large measure to Ledger's sympathetic and believable performance. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
Be forewarned: Scenes of the protagonist learning to swallow the drug pellets will make many viewers queasy. Rarely has the power of suggestion been so unsettling. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
This latest adventure proves to be a suitably sweet addition to Pooh's cinematic canon. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
Sails by on cute dialogue, some funny visual gags, and two enormously likable leads. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 70
Adding to the film's underlying sense of urgency and unease is composer Robert Miller's haunting score, so reminiscent of Philip Glass' music for "The Fog of War." -
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Jean Oppenheimer 60
Devotees of the comedienne presumably will think they have died and gone to heaven, while Cho virgins may laugh aloud a half-dozen times but probably won't become converts. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 60
Don Cheadle is wonderful, as always, as the former drug-addict-turned-psychiatrist who worries it's all hopeless but refuses to stop trying. Sounds clichéd, perhaps, but for the most part it works, thanks to piercingly authentic performances. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 60
The film's intent -- contrasting the relatively benign craziness of a group of mental patients with the far greater insanity of war -- is worthy but obvious, while the execution is overly indulgent and at times precious. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 60
The movie lacks the adult humor of such kid flicks as "Shrek" and "Lilo & Stitch," but the target audience at an advance screening was shrieking with joy throughout. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 60
With Joseph Fiennes as the conflicted, frequently self-hating Luther, this historical drama/biopic offers a fairly thorough overview of the period (although it's weak on the "good deeds" angle) but is somewhat dry and weighted with significance. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 60
Does not measure up to its predecessor, but it's child-friendly and lasts only 45 minutes. -
