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 100
The sheer stark speed and measured violence of On the Run catch us up quickly--and the film becomes a searing portrait of a killer-idealist lost out of time. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
The third film, After the Life, much like "On the Run," mixes a hard-edged, relentless and stripped-down crime tale with a compassionate overview. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
The Russian film The Return is a stunning contemporary fable about a divided family in the wilderness - a simple, riveting film that almost achieves greatness. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
The story is engrossing, full of thrills and humor, the period re-creation wondrous and the pace intoxicatingly brisk. And the actors are all so good and their parts so well-written that we're engaged emotionally as well. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
In a league with Hollywood's top historical epics, ancient or otherwise. It's stunningly handsome film, with an equally stunning cast and engrossing story. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
If the uncut Fanny and Alexander is Bergman's greatest work, as I think, it's because it's his most inclusive. He shows almost everything: all his moods, conflicts, styles and many of his favorite actors. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A masterpiece of wry violence and stylized mayhem, The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi turns loose one of Japan's most brilliant film auteurs, Takeshi Kitano, on one of its most enduring pop legends. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
This movie, the subject of controversy, is a defiantly personal statement on what the war really is--laced with that now-familiar "Roger and Me" mix of homespun wit, pop culture playfulness, populist heart twisting and "gotcha" guerilla film-making tactics. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
This is a romance with minimal physical contact and sex--and that's part of what makes it work so well as a love story. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Sumptuous and beautiful, suffused with a serene melancholy and deeply ambivalent love for a long-vanished past, Luchino Visconti's 1963 The Leopard is one of the greatest of all historical costume epics. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Swooningly beautiful, furious and thrilling, Zhang Yimou's Hero is an action movie for the ages. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Among its many excellences, Vera Drake functions superbly as a pure thriller; the last half is reminiscent in structure and detail of Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man." -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A beautiful picture with a great heart, a classic-to-be with a common touch. -
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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
A fit tribute to an entertainer who, no matter what hate or hardship threw in his way or how many mistakes he made, we can't stop loving. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
It's a magical film which manages to transport and rivet us in the same highly-imaginitive, breezily playful way "Amelie" did. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Sometimes cinema's highest achievements become clear only in retrospect. Days of Being Wild--now clearly revealed as one of the peaks of Hong Kong filmmaking and a masterwork of contemporary cinema giant Wong. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Though it's a sad, somber, deeply questioning work, it's done with a light, loving spirit. -
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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
Sumptuously exciting, glowing with expertise, seething with life, gorgeously designed and thrillingly articulated. -
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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
A masterpiece that can still leave you dizzy with wonder. As much as any movie ever made, this visionary science-fiction tale of space travel and first contact with extraterrestrial life is a spellbinding experience. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Beautifully remastered and containing Cocteau's long-unseen special prologue and credits -- is as much a feat of feverish delight as it was in the dark days of Vichy and WWII. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
It's a nail-biter and knuckle whitener of the first rank: a super real life techno thriller that reduces the fantasies of Tom Clancy and his clones to ground zero. -
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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
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. -
