Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
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For 1,303 reviews, this critic has graded:
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64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.6 points lower than other critics.
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Marjorie Baumgarten's Scores
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Positive: 655 out of 1303
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Mixed: 436 out of 1303
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Negative: 212 out of 1303
1,303
movie reviews
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
These creatures of the underworld are the fervid fabrications of del Toro's imagination: More than once they will catch you by surprise and make you gasp. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
There Will Be Blood is not a movie that disappears quietly. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Synecdoche is the kind of movie that rewards repeated viewings. But sometimes, as Van Morrison sings, it's just best to "sail into the mystic." -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
An additional treat is seeing Hollywood good guy Henry Fonda playing one of the nastiest curs in the West. Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the great films in cinema history. (8/30/2000 Review) -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Repulsion's depiction of a young woman's dissolution into madness is one of the most harrowing mental descents ever depicted onscreen. (Reviewed 11/24/97) -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Although made in 1969, this French masterpiece is receiving its first stateside release with a new print struck for the occasion. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Raimunda believes that dirty linen should be washed at home: Thank goodness Almodóvar hangs some of it up on the screen to dry. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
A Prophet is the kind of film that makes you remember why going to the movies can be a thrilling experience. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
A concept executed with bravura style, intelligent curiosity, and playful wit. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
As disturbing as it is well-made, this low-budget indie is a thoroughly original piece of work. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
In the end, The Fog of War offers a couple of hours of brilliant clarity amid the noise and chaos. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Harrison Ford gave one of his most memorable performances as Indiana Jones, a dashing Saturday matinee idol for the modern age. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Kidman inhabits the lead character of Suzanne Stone (yes, Suzanne Stone) with such sly and delicious zest that we can only wonder why this aspect of her acting has been buried under blonde dramatic ambitions. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Angela Lansbury's frighteningly in-check performance is alone worth the trip. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd (both of whom co-wrote the script) demonstrate their storytelling virtuosity. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Amy Heckerling’s portrait of high school/shopping mall life in Southern California is still just about as good as it gets...The panoply of teen types and turmoils is dead-on accurate. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
I can think of no other movie that has dared to analyze grief and its aftermath with such naked honesty and precision. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
An amazing work, a film that seems to gurgle up from the American heartland, resonant and fully formed, ripe with possibilities. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
As sad and poignant and potentially hopeful as it is amusing. The movie is our story as much as it is Schmidt's, no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
This is the way this ground-breaking monument was meant to be seen: in mind-boggling 70mm. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
This is a movie to love, that touches you in places you never suspected, that shows you that the road less traveled is the road to your dreams. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
By the end of the movie, it’s no longer possible to know anything with certainty -– so convoluted, contradictory, pathological, and long ago have the events become. It’s a movie that will have you talking and thinking for hours. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Very satisfying. Classic storytelling, modern techniques. And the images: This movie has embedded so many strange and new mental pictures in my head that I'm not able to shake free. Yet, neither would I want to be free. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
This modern cult classic is a triumphantly dark comedy directed by one of the film world's truly original visionaries, Terry Gilliam. "Imagination" is this futuristic film’s middle name. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
One of the most exciting movies of this, or any other, year. It's smart, funny, and wonderfully crafted and performed. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
It's paved with delightfully irregular and unanticipated bits of business that stimulate the viewer to stay fully alert, while renewing our faith in the sheer joy of watching movies. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
A wildly inventive, unrelenting thrill that amazes us with its visual and intellectual treats and dazzles us with its ongoing ingenuity. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
A marvelous achievement that refuses to avert its gaze from the poetry and the insane savagery of the hopeless. -
