Michael Atkinson, Mr. Showbiz
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For 200 reviews, this critic has graded:
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39% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.2 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Michael Atkinson's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 55 |
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100
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3
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 81 out of 200
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Mixed: 74 out of 200
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Negative: 45 out of 200
200
movie reviews
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Michael Atkinson 100
One of the year's best films, and certainly its most challenging so far: At more than three hours, watching it is less like consuming entertainment and more like living. -
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Michael Atkinson 100
No other movie released this year is as much of a filmgoing necessity as Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux. -
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Michael Atkinson 100
Ozon -- has finally hit a home run, and Rampling is his most remarkable RBI. -
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Michael Atkinson 100
Amid the chaos of this marvelous, uncategorizable film squirms one of the year's best performances. -
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Michael Atkinson 94
The one movie so far this year that every filmgoer should see, if only to get a big dose of what we've been missing from Hollywood. -
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Michael Atkinson 93
So breathtakingly textural, so empathic in its images, that it transcends its context and achieves timelessness. -
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Michael Atkinson 92
Normal ideas of truth, illusion, and representation are sent into the meat grinder, and the result is consistently disarming and beautiful. -
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Michael Atkinson 91
For the discouraged filmgoer, Erice's tone poem will be a ray of hope itself. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
Her (Cheung) gorgeously sad face and slow, lithe frame are the movie's hammer and chisel. One shot of her walking away from a rented room down a hallway is, all by itself, twice the movie of anything else currently in theaters. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
This is what Woody Allen movies might be like if they were not ruled by narcissism, pretentious point-scoring, cheap observations, and Woody's peculiar speech patterns. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
The Truman Show is one of the films for which the '90s will be remembered, and it is not to be missed. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
Easily the best directorial debut of the year, and possibly the most mature and haunting film to ever come out of Scotland, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher is a throat-catching masterpiece of lyricism, observation, and stone-cold realism. -
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Michael Atkinson 89
Maddin's movie is, frame for frame, the densest and most spectacular (albeit cardboard-cheap) film playing anywhere. -
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Michael Atkinson 89
Suzhou River might be more pulpy than profound, but it still sings its old song better than we've heard in years. -
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Michael Atkinson 89
Easily the year's most trying, tormented, and thrilling movie ordeal. -
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Michael Atkinson 89
An ingenious, incredibly entertaining, Rorschach-blot meta-comedy based on a spec script (by first-timer Charlie Kaufman) that is completely unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. -
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Michael Atkinson 87
Lusts for a feel-good ending the material doesn't comfortably provide. One can't help wondering how dismal Jerry and Dorothy's life together will be after the credits roll. -
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Michael Atkinson 86
A superb, wise, and witty Taiwanese film about being single and what to do about it. -
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Michael Atkinson 84
Dumont's movie has virtually nothing wrong with it -- aside from the fact that it drives people crazy. Take the leap, but expect no answers. Just like life, as they say. -
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Michael Atkinson 84
An explosive experience...and you have to love the movie's rabid energy and lust. -
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Michael Atkinson 81
Topsy-Turvy is flawless, borne along by a savagely witty screenplay that Leigh directs like the gears of a clock. -
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Michael Atkinson 81
Lacks scope and doesn't resonate grandly as a portrait of an American underbelly like Morris' earlier works do. But it still packs a wallop. -
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Michael Atkinson 81
Easily the best millennial movie, Don McKellar's Last Night is also the only one to use the idea of apocalyptic end-time as a vehicle to explore the absurdity of human desire. -
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Michael Atkinson 80
Myers has hit upon a genuinely original schtick, and that fact alone is immeasurably groovy. -
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Michael Atkinson 80
A delicacy for mature filmgoers who are able to derive as much pleasure from a perfectly, sympathetically crafted essay as from a well-spun yarn. -
