Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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For 1,090 reviews, this critic has graded:
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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: 609 out of 1090
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Mixed: 339 out of 1090
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Negative: 142 out of 1090
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Liam Lacey 75
Rather than another oppressive film about poverty, it's a revealing experiment in perspective. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Arguably, Lost in Translation is the American answer to Wong Kar-wai's masterpiece, "In the Mood for Love," though less about history, more about infatuation. -
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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
The acting throughout is exceptional, rooted in observed realism, but suggestive of more mythical agents at work through the lives of human beings. -
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Liam Lacey 75
It feels like one long non-sequitur -- like closing a Charles Bronson film with a disco medley -- but there's an emotional consistency to Kitano's boisterous celebration of movement. -
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Liam Lacey 75
More entertaining than Mission: Impossible or the last Bond film, Goldeneye, it brings back the humour and sang-froid that makes the genre work. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Unclassifiable and wildly original, it is almost wordless but teeming with sound. -
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Liam Lacey 75
In the end, the spectacular martial-arts epic seems to signify nothing much more than its own beauty, as brilliant and ephemeral as a fireworks display. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Here is a psychological twister with an implausible and hard-to-follow plot. All of this is more than compensated for by terrific performances, a seductive colour palette that is greenish and glassy, and a minimalist style reminiscent of Michael Mann. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Both an homage to his dad and a backstage story rich in Hollywood lore. -
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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
A movie that is often as awkward and as filled with mixed impulses as the age it documents. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The first half is exhilarating, and the rest is a tolerably honourable surrender to Hollywood conventions. -
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Liam Lacey 75
The lanky action star of the cult television series "Alias" is assigned a tired playbook in this film, but she finds room to manoeuvre in a performance that exceeds expectations. -
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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
Both a triumph of design and cinematic engineering and, at the same time, long, repetitious and naive. -
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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
Running at about three hours, The Aviator is long, and the momentum occasionally flags. The depiction of Hughes's first mental breakdown feels a little obsessive-compulsive itself. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Throughout the film, Cheadle's eyes are constantly scanning his environment for opportunities or anything that may be amiss. -
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Liam Lacey 75
At the end of Courage Under Fire, you feel torn between admiration and annoyance with the filmmakers. -
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Liam Lacey 75
But it is bright, smart, sometimes wickedly funny, and crisply performed to the point where the acting seems richer than the script. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Apart from its star, though, Emma may be the least convincing Austen adaptation so far. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Yet, about as often as Marvin's Room strikes a chord of emotional authenticity, it hits a fistful of false notes as well. -
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Liam Lacey 75
Freed from the tiresome constraints of plot and character, Rumble in the Bronx is the distilled essence of action entertainment. [27 Feb 1996, p.D1] -
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Liam Lacey 75
Wong returns once more to what he seems to know best - the visual poetry of the urban Asian night, a world of characters on the move, coming and going, never really getting anywhere. [5 Dec 1997] -
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Liam Lacey 75
Hal Hartley's latest film, an odd and mentally stimulating black comedy that may or may not have a point. In any case, the ride is delectably weird and entertaining. [17 Jul 1998] -
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Liam Lacey 75
With the bigger story and more fully developed relationships than the previous films, this is the first Twilight film that feels like a real movie in its own right. -
