Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle
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For 1,599 reviews, this critic has graded:
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59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.4 points lower than other critics.
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Marc Savlov's Scores
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Positive: 729 out of 1599
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Mixed: 462 out of 1599
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Negative: 408 out of 1599
1,599
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Marc Savlov 78
Bridges makes this sozzled and desperate ex-desperado – a cliché by any other name – as fresh and vital as one final shot at cowboy-poet redemption. It may sound crazy, but it's true. -
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Marc Savlov 89
It's thrilling and lovely and sad and explosive in all the right ways, and it needs to be seen – on the big screen, in 3-D – to be believed. -
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Marc Savlov 78
Deliciously bleak, black political satire from British director Armando Iannucci. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Far from being atypical, the events of June 12 and the litany of tiny nightmares that led up to that day are brutally obvious. -
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Marc Savlov 89
For those willing to submit to its terrible charms, it may be the single most important debut to come out of the Americas in years. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Osama begins in fear and ends in terror. In between there's all manner of hopelessness, deprivation, and death, which is to say that as the first film to come out of a post-Taliban Afghanistan, it's practically a documentary. -
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Marc Savlov 89
It's not necessary to be a longtime fan of the Star Trek universe to appreciate the sheer emotional punch and swagger of this rough and randy Enterprise crew. -
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Marc Savlov 78
The dead have more fun than the living, again, in Tim Burton’s new stop-motion animated feature, a gift to gothlings everywhere and as exquisitely crafted as one of Federico’s post-mortem still lifes on "Six Feet Under," and just as melodramatically melancholic. -
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Marc Savlov 50
A bore... The film leaves you with the feeling, once again, of having enjoyed a lovely meal fit for royalty only to discover, too late, that the fruit was made of wax and the roast was little more than a Styrofoam mock-up. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Love, death, hope, and hatred: Spider-Man 2 has ’em all, in spades. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Paranoid Park shows the Portland-based director to be working at the pinnacle of his art in every frame, in every composition. It's breathtaking, heartbreaking, tragic, gorgeous, and true all at the same time. -
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Marc Savlov 78
Cronenberg’s nonlinear narrative is trying at times – it keeps you nearly as off-kilter as the characters, and surely that’s intentional – but as a character piece about madness and stymied dreams, it’s remarkably realistic. -
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Marc Savlov 89
While it’s perhaps not the best date film of the year, it is a grim and unmistakable masterpiece of bleak, black sorrow. -
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Marc Savlov 78
It's brutal to watch the bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fall tragedy of this once-great heavyweight. In fact, it's enough to make you cry. -
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Marc Savlov 78
A fine, near-seamless film that finally suffers slightly from an inability to wrap up its tale. -
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Marc Savlov 89
The quiet respect Venus displays toward lions in winter, defanged though they may be, is rare enough; the film's respect for unfinessed lionesses-to-be is rarer still. Wherever they're going, no one here is going quietly. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Danny Boyle's 127 Hours is the calm, cool, and tear-your-hair-out exciting mirror image of Tony Scott's bland and formulaic "Unstoppable."- Posted Nov 18, 2010
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Marc Savlov 89
Absolutely mandatory viewing for aspiring animators and filmmakers. (In terms of pacing, scoring, editing, and narrative, it's a film school unto itself.) For the rest of us, however, it's simply magic.- Posted Feb 10, 2011
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Marc Savlov 67
Becomes something of a rainswept Korean koan on both the nobility and futility of persistence in the face of obviously insurmountable odds. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Face/Off works like a charm right on down the line thanks to brilliant, exhilarating performances from Cage and Travolta, and the many tremendously enjoyable action set-pieces that are Woo's hallmark. -
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Marc Savlov 89
As far from "Slacker" as you could possibly get and still be using a motion-picture camera, The School of Rock is nonetheless pure Linklater, pure rock & roll, and pure fun. Gabba, gabba, hey! -
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Marc Savlov 89
Much has been made about the film's "humanizing" of Hitler, but he's only human here in the most prosaic of terms. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Could be summarized as a vampire tween romance, but that cheap and tawdry sum-up does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gemlike bloodstone of a film. -
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Marc Savlov 50
The only thing here that feels truly, utterly alive is Ledger's maniacal, muttery Joker. The last laugh is his and his alone. It's enough to make you cry. -
