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
Just about as great as a movie's ever gonna be... As for the storytellng, The Godfather is an intricately constructed gem that simultaneously kicks ass. -
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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
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
More lethal than a nuclear waste dump, Kubrick's komedy at least kills us with laughter... It's one of the greatest - and undoubtably the most hilarious - antiwar statements ever put to film. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
The story winds its way over the material, forcing the characters and the viewers to constantly reassess everything they have seen and heard.- Posted Feb 9, 2012
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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
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 78
A smart and delightful romantic comedy, yet in the course of creating his new charmer Alexander Payne has sheared off some of the rambunctious edges that made his previous films, About Schmidt, Election, and Citizen Ruth, such marvelous studies in social parody. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
Love means being helpmates throughout all of life's stages. Death is part of love's bargain, and Haneke lays this fact bare.- Posted Jan 24, 2013
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
A masterful synthesis of generic conventions and creative imagination, a sublime amalgam of some of the best tendencies and talent our times have to offer. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
The movie's ending at the train station and the modern-day epilogue feel protracted and indulgent...Apart from the ending though, this is Spielberg's most articulate movie ever. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 78
Capturing the nuances of quotidian life may not be everyone's cup of tea. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
The keen observations of The Class ultimately become a remedial education in themselves. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
There Will Be Blood is not a movie that disappears quietly. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
The perfect antidote to the summer heat in Austin, more refreshing even than a dip in our chilly holy waters of Barton Springs. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 78
The story is bizarre, unique, and thoroughly unpredictable, while its images resemble some kind of bastard offspring of the linear realism of George Grosz and the fantastic foreboding of Edward Gorey. -
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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 89
A stunning work of beauty, mystery, contemplation, and grit -- and like sands through the desert hourglass, these are the days of our lives. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 67
Secrets & Lies, despite my dwelling on its problems, is a really solid and enjoyable movie. It's just not what I would call "best of the fest." -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
The adaptation by Joel and Ethan Coen (both co-credited as writer and director) of McCarthy's as-if-written-for-the-screen No Country for Old Men becomes a marvelous meld of narrative faithfulness and pre-established sensibilities. -
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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 89
One of the best movies I've seen this year and, consequently, the less said about it here the better. The beauty of this movie is in the way it twists and turns, thwarting expectations, confounding stereotypes and venturing into places you least anticipate. -
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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
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
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 89
Although the characters and their backstories are carefully thought out, Delpy and Hawke deliver their dialogue as if spontaneous and unmeditated. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
Crowe has created a genuine love song for all those who've ever felt their lives to have been saved by rock & roll. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
Instead of using actors, Greengrass employed many of the actual air traffic controllers and military commanders who were on the ground that day. Also aiding his film's universality is Greengrass' use of little known actors in the central roles, preventing stardom from affecting our ideas about heroism and patriotism. -
