Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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For 866 reviews, this critic has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.2 points lower than other critics.
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Michael O'Sullivan's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 405 out of 866
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Mixed: 216 out of 866
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Negative: 245 out of 866
866
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Michael O'Sullivan 90
Neither wholly cynical nor wholly romantic, Kaufman's story is a balance of smarts and sentiment. It's the most fully realized working out of his two favorite obsessions: the subjective nature of experience and the psychological mysteries of pair bonding. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 90
With unsurprising irony, the "Sixteen" of the title foreshadows Liam's birthday and even worse calamity, which makes a grim and gripping story all the more heartbreaking. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 90
By land or by sea, there aren't many movies that can move you like that. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 90
The events of the movie are filament-thin and insubstantial but, like fine silk threads, they weave together a fabric of surpassing warmth and texture. [25 Sep 1998, Pg.N.63] -
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
The romantic comedy about a divorced couple having an affair manages to be both light on its feet and heavy enough to deliver something of a message. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
Megamind has presentation in spades. But it also has something even rarer than that. It's got heart.- Posted Dec 15, 2010
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's scathing, moving critique of American public education, makes you actually want to do something after you dry your eyes. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
The Muppets is both a delightful family film about the Muppets and a winking, self-referential satire about how lame the Muppets are.- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
Chandor's film goes a long way toward making understandable - in vivid, cinematic terms - what exactly happened to make that first big domino fall over.- Posted Oct 21, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
Known for comedy, Rogen and Silverman are the film's most delightful surprises, and their performances shine.- Posted Jul 5, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
It's a kid's Cirque de Soleil, for a lot less money.- Posted Jun 7, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
McKinney, a woman whose spellbinding and baffling presence - nay, performance - in Tabloid more than lives up to her recent off-screen antics.- Posted Jul 14, 2011
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- Posted Jul 28, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
Movie 43 is a near masterpiece of tastelessness. The anthology of 12 short, interconnected skits elevates the art form of gross-out comedy to a new height.- Posted Jan 26, 2013
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
It's powerful, gut-wrenching stuff, and it doesn't need tarting up.- Posted Oct 27, 2011
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- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
By turns sweet, sad, funny and poignant, We Have a Pope is the story of a man who doesn't want to be God's representative on Earth.- Posted May 3, 2012
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- Posted May 31, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
Simon and the Oaks is not merely the story of two boys from opposite sides of the tracks. It's also a larger meditation on life's hardships and what endures: love, art and civilization.- Posted Oct 26, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
A quietly brilliant study in cognitive dissonance, The Flat is a documentary look at Holocaust denial, but not the kind you might think.- Posted Nov 2, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
The problem, as “Table” shows, isn’t that the next meal never comes. It’s that when it arrives, too often it is filled with empty calories.- Posted Feb 28, 2013
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Michael O'Sullivan 88
The Reluctant Fundamentalist will likely make some people mad because of the way it holds the United States responsible for the repercussions of its actions in the world. Like Changez himself, the film has a complicated relationship with the superpower.- Posted May 9, 2013
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
The line between madness and genius is thin. Not to mention more than amply explored in any number of films about tortured artists. But to look at the almost religious ecstasy on Moreau's face is to feel the artist's passion and be inspired by it. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
The sprawling cast, the naturalistic, overlapping dialogue (here by screenwriter Jenny Lumet, daughter of director Sidney) and the swirling action: it seemed pure Robert Altman. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
In one bold stride, Benigni has set himself apart from the rank and file of funnymen, joining the elite class of clowns who know that humor and heartbreak are only a howl of pain apart. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Haunting little film, whose chaotic universe is churned up by the conflict between the haves and the have-nots. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Sternfeld has created a garden on film that opens up its blooms for us, not in the dark of the movie house, but long after we've left the theater. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
It's a story of jaw-dropping chutzpah, grim, mostly hindsight-based humor and more stomach-churning drama than you could find in 10 screenplays. -
