Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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For 1,207 reviews, this critic has graded:
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21% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 13.9 points higher than other critics.
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Michael Wilmington's Scores
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Positive: 983 out of 1207
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Mixed: 142 out of 1207
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Negative: 82 out of 1207
1,207
movie reviews
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Michael Wilmington 88
The film seems a mad mix of staid PBS bio-drama, flamboyant musical comedy and surreal cartoon nightmare. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Watching this film wakes you up; it is a window on an Iran and an Afghanistan we should have taken account of long ago -- seen though a master's eye, felt through a poet's touch. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
This century's Planet of the Apes is a rouser, a screaming-banshee fun house. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It's a movie imbued with a fierce intimacy -- a tone and style similar to cinema verite documentary -- but it's not a banal realism, even if the characters and settings in contemporary working-class Liege initially seem mundane. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
The movie, done in a classic measured style, finally moves you almost as much as if it had stayed in Kurosawa's hands. Filled with love and melancholy, it's a fitting, fond epilogue to the "sensei" (the master). -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It's the best new battle film since "Black Hawk Down," a movie it surpasses in sheer feeling and bravura style, if not in nightmarish panic and suspense. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Of all the many documentaries that take you along on a movie shoot, one of my all-time favorites is this delightfully scrappy, sometimes poignant, often hilarious show. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It's a movie of uncommon eloquence and elegance, acted by a truly gifted cast. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
You will not forget The Piano Teacher. Nor will you forget Isabelle Huppert, a brave, brilliant actress who here plays her masterpiece. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It's an exciting but brainy, cross-cultural thriller about modern London and life in a contemporary urban pressure cooker, and it depends more on plot, character and atmosphere than it does on chases and gunfire. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It's a twisty, hell-for-leather crime thriller, and director Carl Franklin gives it all the slick, modern trimmings. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Casual moviegoers may enjoy it, too, if they follow a simple rule: Stop looking for the way out and let yourself get lost. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Kidman crafts a characterization of breathtakingly controlled artifice, dead-on timing, dizzyingly precise humor. Her part is a knockout--in every sense of the word. [6 Oct 1995] -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It's fresh, funny, biting, fast-paced and reasonably perceptive about people and their problems. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Sharp, funny, sad and daring as it may be, Happiness is missing something. Its points are often too obvious, its shocks too juvenile. It's impressive but not transcendent. [23 Oct 1998] -
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Michael Wilmington 88
This is not an inspirational drama about finding yourself; it's a Hitchcockian comedy about adultery, murder and losing a corpse. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
An Adam Sandler movie with class, and if that sounds like an oxymoron, so be it. The movie is a happy nightmare of silly-smart movie comedy that defies category - and challenges expectations involving Sandler and his pictures. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A bizarre, thrilling, warmly funny spoof of the WWII Steve McQueen prison camp thriller, "The Great Escape" remade for a near all-chicken cast. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A stark, minimalist near-masterpiece about the creation of a murderer in modern Iran. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
This film--one of the best and most memorable documentaries of the year so far--brings that truth-teller to us once again. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Has the resonance, eloquence and formal rigor of a piece of great literature. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A love-hate poem to L.A., and when Mann takes in the streets, the freeways and LAX, he doesn't give us shiny "Lethal Weapon"-style travelogues. He shows us an L.A. that's grim, bare, a bit smoggy and ruled by street smarts. [15 Dec 1995] -
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