Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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For 1,097 reviews, this critic has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.5 points lower than other critics.
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Liam Lacey's Scores
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Positive: 614 out of 1097
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Mixed: 341 out of 1097
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Negative: 142 out of 1097
1,097
movie reviews
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Liam Lacey 100
If the word masterpiece has any use these days, it must apply to the film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, a mature, philosophically resonant work from Turkey's leading director, 53-year-old Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Climates, Distance, Three Monkeys).- Posted Mar 1, 2012
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Liam Lacey 75
A rollicking good story set a millennium ago among Australian aborigines, Ten Canoes is one of those cultural-building exercises that genuinely entertains. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The voice that jerks out from Levy's throat suggests Lazarus waking from the dead. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The film's forced quirkiness constantly threatens to derail the entire enterprise, making this another minor American indie exercise in family eccentricity. But it keeps being put back on track by the apparently effortless performance of a great young actress. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Fortunately, there's always the fascination of watching actor Toni Servillo, who does a brilliant job of playing Andreotti (known as Beelzebub) as a kind of devil with a clown's exterior. -
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Liam Lacey 100
Take the backroom political machinations of "Lincoln," add in the showbiz sleight of hand of "Argo," and you’ll get something like No, a cunning and richly enjoyable combination of high-stakes drama and media satire.- Posted Mar 14, 2013
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Liam Lacey 100
A simultaneously realistic and absurdist examination of police work. -
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Liam Lacey 63
Tarantino's approach is so enamoured of the exploitation cinema he emulates, there is a serious risk that noble intentions get smothered in juvenile comedy and cinematic grandstanding.- Posted Dec 20, 2012
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Liam Lacey 75
The excesses are easy to forgive, both for the humour and charisma of Rourke's outsized performance and Aronofsky's canny low-key direction, which make for a combination that is irresistible. -
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Liam Lacey 88
Death, torture, humour and even budding eroticism -- now this is more like it. -
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Liam Lacey 75
An ultra-cheap movie, ingeniously promoted through the Internet -- is notable primarily as a model of guerrilla-style niche-marketing. -
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Liam Lacey 63
The verdict? King Kong may be a great movie event in a "Jaws/Titanic" sense of blockbuster impact and cultural talking point, but it is not a great movie. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The payoff is the revitalization of Bond by making him closer to what Fleming envisaged: a sociopath who, fortunately, is on our side. -
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Liam Lacey 75
While the story, shorn of its supernatural elements, is mired in abuse and tragedy, its effect is sensual and superficial.- Posted May 31, 2013
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Liam Lacey 88
As in "Taxi Driver," the protagonist is a damaged war veteran, an invisible man who travels about the city and internalizes its contradictions until he explodes. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Paprika is a creatively dizzying and visually dazzling allegory about alternative realities. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Even when the plots of sexual confusions, transgression and tragedy became absurdly complicated and arbitrary, there was always the mise-en-scène to die for. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The result is an intriguing hybrid, mixing a Japanese reverence for nature (a raindrop shimmering on a leaf is a visual haiku) with quaint Victorian architecture and a story featuring contemporary, Caucasian-looking Japanese characters speaking in American accents. Somehow, it all works.- Posted Feb 17, 2012
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Liam Lacey 75
In many areas, Food Inc. could be accused of being a fast-food version of a documentary – it's everywhere at once, skipping across the surface of a vast subject, and adding nuggets of sweetness to the scary filler. -
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Liam Lacey 75
A cornball charmer of a film with some beautiful birds and homespun wisdom. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Often more ingenious in appearance than fact. The hunter-gets-captured-by-the-game scenario is predictable and the sequence of shell games does not, when reconsidered, actually add up. -
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Liam Lacey 75
As usual, the Coens' visual elements are pristine. The contrasting colours in the fire-lit interiors are gorgeous, while cinematographer Roger Deakins keeps the camera close, resisting traditional panoramic views.- Posted Dec 23, 2010
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Liam Lacey 63
Not until the final shot does Noyce rise up to the potential of the history: There's a sudden shiver of recognition, that, my God, these people really lived this. -
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Liam Lacey 75
With its bold screen-filling imagery, this is definitely a movie to be relished on the big screen. -
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Liam Lacey 75
On the positive side, it's still four back-to-back Simpsons episodes, which is still better than most of what either television or the movies have to offer. -
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Liam Lacey 63
Too long by about 20 minutes, and arguably too obsessed with the lineage of names only of interest to other surfers, this is a vicarious kick. -
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Liam Lacey 88
Can a little-read 18th-century literary masterpiece be food-spittingly funny? Can it also include contemporary English actors riffing about their bad teeth, getting drunk and kissing their personal assistants? The answer is yes, as long as you agree that the best way to adapt an original book is with a correspondingly original film. -
