Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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For 1,214 reviews, this critic has graded:
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77% higher than the average critic
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21% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 13.8 points higher than other critics.
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Michael Wilmington's Scores
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Positive: 990 out of 1214
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Mixed: 142 out of 1214
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Negative: 82 out of 1214
1,214
movie reviews
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Michael Wilmington 100
A brilliant work of the imagination capable of truly seizing and igniting our fantasies. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A boisterous, brilliant, heart-warming comedy--strikes me as just about perfect. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Nobody Knows, by the often excellent Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, is one of those special movies that can give us a new way of seeing. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A deeply moving blend of cold terror and rapturous hilarity. Lovingly crafted by Italy's top comedian and most popular filmmaker, it's that rare comedy that takes on a daring and ambitious subject and proves worthy of it. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Achieves a mellowness and melancholy that recalls the jazzy dissonance of director (and here, composer) Eastwood's best work: "The Outlaw Josey Wales," "Bird," "Unforgiven" and "Mystic River." -
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Michael Wilmington 100
It's a movie of such jaw-dropping violence, wild improbability and dazzling style it overpowers all resistance. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Like all great fantasies and epics, this one leaves you with the sense that its wonders are real, its dreams are palpable. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
It's as thrilling and lushly beautiful a movie as has been released all year, matched only by Zhang's epic "Hero." And I think this film is the more powerful. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
One of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have recently given us. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
One of the quintessential '60s foreign art films, a bizarre melange of pop music, revolution, sex, movie allusions and poetry. It's a masterpiece of sorts by one of the most important European filmmakers of that era. But it's also a movie that can drive you crazy. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Downfall, whatever its shortcomings, bears strong witness to great evil. That is its triumph as a film. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
All the "Star Wars" movies will continue to entertain us for many years to come. They were grand fun, and this last one's a corker. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Perfect for anyone with a youthful heart and a rich imagination. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Romero's newest is a horror movie for hard-core fans of the gory and the gruesome and a classic genre film for genre aficionados. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
With rich irony, The World juxtaposes the teasing, grand images of the outside world's wonders with the insular community and the mundane lives of the park employees. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
If it's not an actual masterpiece, it's at least the next best thing, a fully characteristic, fully alive work by a master of his art. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A peach of a story delightfully imagined by Dahl and lushly realized by Burton. It's full of witty or awesome scenes, flights of fancy and characters either totally, lovably sweet or outrageously, humorously rotten. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Still packs a wallop. It's also a movie with no easy passage to its dark heart. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
In this movie, Auteuil ("Jean de Florette") and Binoche ("Chocolat") are such marvelous actors, they can shift us in almost any emotional direction with a speech or a glance. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Of all the movies that try to take us into the mind and viewpoint of a child, Carol Reed's 1948 The Fallen Idol, adapted by Graham Greene from his short story, is one of the most ingenious. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Days of Heaven is the grand climax of the whole "Bonnie and Clyde"-"Badlands" tradition of outlaw-lovers-on-the-run movies. Shot by Nestor Almendros and the uncredited Haskell Wexler, it's a cinematographic masterpiece. [20 March 1998] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Three Times is great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A film masterpiece, restored more than three decades after its French release, "Army" remains a superb, coolly accurate portrait of a living hell recalled by two men who knew it well and record it truly, Melville and novelist Joseph Kessel. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
If all this potent drama recalls Bergman, the beautifully articulated staging and setting suggest that master of operatic social-sexual drama, Luchino Visconti ("The Leopard"). -
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Michael Wilmington 100
This is a movie for all cultures and all people, for families and especially for those who have lost them. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
If you haven't gotten hooked already on Michael Apted's series--collectively, one of the great documentaries in the history of the cinema--you should prepare yourself for the latest installment, 49 Up. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
It's a work by cinematic geniuses that reveals beauty and terror in a long-ago time with a virtuoso intensity. You won't soon forget its mad, lovely sights and sounds. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Brims with intelligence, compassion and sensuous delight in the textures, sights and sounds of life--all the way from the Taj Mahal to Pearl Jam. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A beautiful film, harrowing, tough and rife with grief. -
