Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
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For 1,904 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: 1,240 out of 1904
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Mixed: 501 out of 1904
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Negative: 163 out of 1904
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Without doing anything so divisive as taking sides, The Counterfeiters pays sympathetic attention to those who play their cards to win even when the rules are terrible, not least because the remarkable Markovics, an Austrian TV actor with a pugnacious anvil of a head, is so riveting as an unsaintly survivor. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
If I ran the circus, the gang that made the sturdy, witty, inventively animated Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! would get first dibs on any future movie productions of the Theodor Seuss Geisel canon. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
It's a thin line between 20th-century Nazism and 21st-century corporate culture in Heartbeat Detector, Nicolas Klotz's rewardingly chilly psychological thriller. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
The rare footage of '50s and '60s L.A. alone is a treasure; the City of Angels has rarely looked so hip. Bonus: cool music from the likes of Charles Mingus and the Velvet Underground. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Juliette Binoche is outstanding as a wildly untogether single mother who parks her son with a French-speaking Chinese nanny while she whirls and worries. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
They also make joyful music, communicated, both by the singers and their playful, sensitive documentarian, with an authority that quite knocks off socks. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Doug Pray's cool documentary about 85-year-old Dr. Dorian Paskowitz, his wife, and their eight sons and one daughter is about surfing insofar as surfing is the family's shared passion. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Reprise is kissed with the breath of French New Wave sensibility, sweet with verve and a love of forward movement. The mood of joy in the midst of youthful pain is enhanced by the freshness of the first-time lead actors. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Breillat, the flamethrower who made "Romance" and "Fat Girl," artfully twists period-piece drama to suit her provocative modern notions about sex, gender roles, and power. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
The players are timelessly familiar in American Teen, too. But filmmaker Nanette Burstein tells their stories with a distinctly 21st-century pop and audacity. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
But the story is, still and all, only a pause, deferring an intensely anticipated conclusion. And it's in that exquisite place of action and waiting that this elegantly balanced production emerges as a model adaptation. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
So much goes down on Nick and Norah's one enchanted evening that the best advice is to enjoy the ride -- the actual ride -- around this vibrant new New York. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
This is a dark story as well as a frothy one. But the bubble of absurdist self-absorption in which Menzel places this specimen of man-child is exquisite. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Smith transfers an Iowa-based short story by Randy Russell to India's western Goa region -- and works in Hindi, primarily with novice actors. The result is a story both authentically specific and profoundly global. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Surges with an energy and visual verve that improve the play and enhance the themes of dramatist Peter Morgan's script. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
The London universe Leigh creates (employing his trademark improv techniques to unite his ensemble, many of whom make their film debuts) isn't so much a reality as a hope, and an invitation to find joy and grace in everyday moments. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
A reality-twisting cousin to "Being John Malkovich" -- showcases a Van Damme who's sly like a fox about his own image. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
A disturbingly avid re-creation of the last six weeks in the life and slow, self-imposed wasting of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
A movie at once understated and radical, deceptively unremarkable in presentation and ballsy in its earnestness. Don't let the star's overly familiar squint fool you: This is subtle, perceptive stuff. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
A curious case indeed: an extravagantly ambitious movie that's easy to admire but a challenge to love. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda musters the power of classical filmmaking and personal emotional investment to dramatize a stunning atrocity long covered up. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Known for distinctive horror movies like "Cure" and "Pulse," inventive Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds just the right melancholy tone to suit a new and all too familiar kind of horror: economic downsizing. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
The superb character actor Celia Weston (In the Bedroom) is truly breathtaking as Ronnie's boozer mom. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
This super-duper deluxe nature documentary clearly aims to recruit young viewers as conservationists. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
You need know nothing about Italian politics to completely enjoy the fantastical, Fellini-fied, tragi-comic, biographical fun-for-all Il Divo. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Using the droll, wise stories of Etgar Keret as her guide, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal concocts an artful film that expresses deep thoughts, lightly. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Anna's thoughts matter because, as played by the wonderfully nuanced newcomer Alycia Delmore, the no-bull responses of this perceptive woman are a key to Humpday's sly, wised-up feminist outlook. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
The chattering smarty-pants who ran the U.S. government on "The West Wing" are slow talkers compared with the motormouthed and hilariously imperfect power elite in the brainy British comedy In the Loop. -
