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 3.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
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
movie reviews
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
First-time feature director Harald Zwart has a real flair for farce, and he keeps the outrageous high jinks of the script lively yet grounded in reality. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
It also has heart and soul, two commodities all too often in short supply in the field of garden-variety cinema verite. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Wonderfully empowering to watch Petula and Dorothy turn the tables on their testosterone-crazed tormentors. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Where it succeeds best is not in describing how Luzhin got broken but how love fixed him, albeit temporarily. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
It's daring, deliberately offensive and, for a comedy, it has far more ideas in it than actual laughs. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Eminently watchable thanks to strong performances from its three leads (McKellen, Redgrave, Fraser). -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Manages to take the cerebral act of literary creation and make it exciting, sexy even. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Little Voice may be more of a confection than a square meal, but it's proof of how good a dish can be when the ingredients are of the highest order. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Drew Barrymore has figured out what works, and what works for Drew Barrymore is this: Cinderella stories. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
The movie is not for the squeamish, but for those who are unafraid to look at what is, perhaps, their own metaphorical "backyard," for those willing to stare into the long, dark night of the contemporary American soul, its bone-crunching message is worth hearing. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
After viewing documentarian Stephanie Black's dour exegesis of the wrecked Jamaican economy -- only the most insensitive vacationer will want to set foot anywhere near the resorts and beaches of Montego Bay. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
A poke in the adrenal gland -- obeys the first law of action movie-making by quickening the heart and dazzling the eye. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
With its cast of back-stabbing functionaries and desk jockeys, Spy Game makes the sport and hard work of espionage seem chillingly real. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Zigging and zagging serenely between the extremes of deadpan, postmodern comedy and the antic, Max Sennett-style japery of yore. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
An enormously entertaining visit to planet paranoia, but its escapist pleasures titillate only in direct proportion to the degree of persecution complex that you bring into the theater with you. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Moodysson's cornball sentimentality about the many shapes of the human family is tempered by his honesty about personal frailty and the silliness of utopian living experiments. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Hilary and Jackie plumbs the cistern of family dysfunction and musical genius to profound and haunting effect. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 80
Simple without being slight, and profoundly moving without dipping into mawkishness. -
