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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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
It's a lovely, original, Australian take on a climactic moment usually thought of as all American. -
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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
While never slow, the film feels quiet and spacious, like a prayer. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
With the pitiless, devastating Fat Girl, Catherine Breillat puts men and women, boys and girls on notice: When fantasy, hypocrisy, and manipulation mix in a wet, sandy place, you dive into sex at your own risk. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
This stunning movie -- one of the very best of the year -- makes a much read American classic feel new and freshly devastating. -
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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
The lightness with which Buñuel was able to insert the little jokes and knife stabs of surrealism he loved so much is, in fact, divine. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, Shower sparkles with joy. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Rohmer treasures the undervalued glories of discourse and the intimacy of conversation over the obviousness of action or sexual display. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Circles the heart of noisy, modern Tehran with an informal, documentary-like freedom that is thrilling in its naturalism. -
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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
Affliction -- a beautiful bummer, a magnificent feel-bad movie -- is American filmmaking of a most rewarding order. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The real feast is in the mix of characters, each so finely and unschmaltzily delineated in a script so confident and controlled that even the most passing of participants comes alive. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Fierce, loving, and electric, this movie's got bite as well as bark. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
There's piercing sadness, and fury, too, in this Everyman's isolation, and Cantet is singularly skilled at evoking the universal condition of such tragic ordinariness. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Don't let unpleasant personal dental associations stand in the way of seeing a luminous specimen of independent filmmaking. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
American Splendor presents Pekar as drawn on the page, Pekar as brilliantly interpreted by Paul Giamatti, and the actual Pekar, in the double role of narrator and interview subject -- sometimes all at once. The magic act is thrilling, and truly surprising. -
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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
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
Gets weirder and meaner and darker and sadder as it progresses, which is amazing since it simultaneously remains funny and horrifying right up to the end. -
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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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