Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
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For 1,901 reviews, this critic has graded:
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27% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.5 points higher than other critics.
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Lisa Schwarzbaum's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,238 out of 1901
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Mixed: 500 out of 1901
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Negative: 163 out of 1901
1,901
movie reviews
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
A memory of the automobile in which a father drove away from his family provides the title for Blue Car but no hint of the power of writer-director Karen Moncrieff's superb feature debut. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Tsai builds this shimmering story with deft, deadpan wit and a warm, understated love of the absurd, both in life and afterlife. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
A small cubist masterpiece about crime and punishment set in that most split-level of environments, Los Angeles. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Can be interpreted politically or even biblically or not at all, as the elemental struggles between dominance and submission, impulse and action, man and nature, father and son, play out to their stunning conclusion. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
So superb, so graceful, so strong -- another beauty in this year of good documentaries -- that I do believe it will influence career choices, sending inspired viewers to study pedagogy, or cinematography. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The storytelling is the series' best, with a zingy balance of drama, humor, and Deep Thoughts (in a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, directed with confident exuberance by Irvin Kershner). [Special Edition] -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
It's thrillingly original, lyrical, and wise, and the filmmaker conveys the mutable intensity of young love with the authoritative originality of an important filmmaker. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Alexander Payne's scathing, subtle, and complexly funny tragicomedy builds a perfect, off-kilter universe--it's a first cousin to "Rushmore." -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The power of this great movie -- part comedy, part tragedy, part satire, mostly masterpiece -- is in the details. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Ceylan, who also served as cinematographer, frames the affecting, unstudied performances in gorgeously chosen shots and nonevents that sometimes teeter on the edge of comedy before knocking us breathless with their emotional power. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The uncoagulated anguish of parents mourning the death of a child has rarely been more powerfully depicted than in the collected vignettes of grief, rage, and retribution that make up the riveting domestic drama In the Bedroom. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
There's no denying that when it comes to communicating a certain delirious romanticism of character shaped by thousands of hours spent sitting in the dark, the artist who made this showpiece is a master. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
A highly original Death in Venice-scented comedy drama written and directed with flair by British feature novice Richard Kwietniowski. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The result: This great work of art has the potential to change the world. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Achieves its exquisite tension--deepening beautifully from a "Death in Venice" setup to an imaginative meditation, on art and life, of uncommon sensitivity. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Like everything else in this superb work of art, ''Shrinking Lover'' is exquisitely Almodóvarian. It's funny, tender, a little shocking, and it pays homage to what we know about movies: that they can move us beyond words. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Almodóvar's masterwork, is a spectacular synthesis of everything that has always interested him -- proud women, lovely boys, beautiful drag queens, grand movie stars, gorgeous frocks, wild wallpaper . -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
(Denis's) visual style is hypnotic, rapturous, and she makes barren landscapes look gorgeous, hard men look vulnerable. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Murray, meanwhile, turns in a thrillingly knowing, unforced performance--an award-worthy high point in a career that continues, Max Fischer style, to defy the obvious at every turn. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Don't leave before the final frame -- if you're still breathing. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity, and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
An amazing thing -- a work of cinematic art in which form and structure pursues the logic-defying (parallel) subjects of dreaming and moviegoing. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
A triumph of psychological depth and artistic brilliance offered as the magical adventures of one skinny little girl. -
