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
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Liam Lacey 75
The result is a beautifully designed, lyrical fable of a movie, full of God's-eye shots from on high, placing the characters against the Italian scenery and medieval architecture. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Actually a pretty entertaining movie, in a kick-you-in-the-pants kind of way. A relative rarity -- a solid no-brow comedy. -
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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 75
Ten may strain your patience but that's the high-stakes gamble of this provocative project. -
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Liam Lacey 75
It is, in short, a compendium of clichés, yet with a presentation that makes the familiar seem remarkably warm and fresh. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The film is like an Ingmar Bergman movie as realized by Monty Python: It's seriously gloomy about the loss of spirituality in the world, but at the same time rudely, sometimes hilariously, absurd. -
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Liam Lacey 75
An impressive film accomplishment, a combination of technique and extremely specific detail that reminds viewers how potent a rhetorical force the medium can be. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The value of Amandla! is that the film helps the rest of the world understand, both with our ears and minds, where South Africans have come from. -
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Liam Lacey 75
You probably have a better chance of stuffing an octopus into a tea cup than capturing one of Dickens's fat novels in a two-hour movie. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Audacious and bursting with ideas, the paranoid little sci-fi independent film Pi marks an auspicious debut for New York writer Darren Aronofsky. -
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Liam Lacey 75
More about Ali as media star and social figure, less about the quicksilver athlete. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Utterly preposterous but so full of enthusiasm and flashy style that it's entertaining anyway, The Brotherhood of the Wolf is like the platypus of genre films. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Part of the charm of Satin Rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness. -
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Liam Lacey 75
A horror movie based on history, offering some of the most spectacularly brutal, viscerally intense battle scenes ever brought to a Hollywood movie. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Undoubtedly the rudest and possibly the most inspired comedy of the summer. -
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Liam Lacey 75
There's a particular upside-down, half-masked kiss that instantly becomes one of movie history's more memorable smooches. It's the kiss to send any teenaged boy on a spinning high, as well as launching the new age of arachnophilia. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The Motown musicians today are in their 60s and 70s but they remain inspiringly colourful, funny in their stories and assured in their musicianship. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Mamet's stylized dialogue, elaborate plot puzzles and the angry cleverness of his characterization makes for an invigorating, if not exactly likeable, mix. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Myers's sheer fertility of invention is of a different order, and even if he misses as often as he hits, he's definitely a swinger. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Not just a 3-D novelty to amuse school groups, but also a memorial. -
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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
Tuned in to the anarchic wisecracks and slapstick humour of traditional Warner Bros. cartoons. In contrast to the computer-generated characters and slick script of a movie like "Shrek," Lilo and Stitch still feels like a cartoon aimed at kids, not their parents. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The results are not monumental, but they are a variety of sober responses to the tragedy that help place the event in a global context. Some of the films may be, as has been suggested, anti-American in tone, but none come anywhere near defending the attacks. -
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Liam Lacey 75
For all its accomplishments, Far from Heaven remains hermetic, an elegant exercise in deadpan irony. What does the movie ultimately mean? Art, we're told, should not mean, but be -- but Haynes's cinematic essays are designed to provoke commentary. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Seabiscuit is a good enough movie, in the sense that it's a well-crafted assemblage of pathos and rousing moments, solidly acted and handsomely shot -- but it's far from champion material. -
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