Jessica Winter, Village Voice
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For 266 reviews, this critic has graded:
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25% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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75% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Jessica Winter's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 48 |
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Critic Score
90
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0
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 65 out of 266
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Mixed: 129 out of 266
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Negative: 72 out of 266
266
movie reviews
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Jessica Winter 90
Unstintingly funny -- far more so than the wince-worthy trailer -- owing to Chan's pairing with droll indie eccentric Owen Wilson, as his would-be gunslinger sidekick. -
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Jessica Winter 90
Karine Vanasse, as the protagonist Hanna, is perfectly cast because she has the body of a woman and the sweet, sexless face of a child. -
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Jessica Winter 90
Redoubtably hilarious as always, Zahn also lends his character unpredictable flashes of anger, pathos, and faint psychosis, even when the movie jumps the median from ticklishly discomfiting black comedy into by-the-numbers horror jolts. -
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Jessica Winter 90
A scrupulous and impeccably acted account of the fallout from a family secret. -
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Jessica Winter 90
In a remarkably subtle, assured debut performance, Compston evokes Billy in Loach's "Kes" and, in the heartbreaking final seaside shot, Antoine in Truffaut's "400 Blows." -
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Jessica Winter 90
With elegant restraint the film subtly intimates the wintry dead end-twilight years bereft of love, partner, or vocation-that may be in store for its aged lover man. (Payne's "About Schmidt" did too, when not gorging snidely on idiot Americana.) -
