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 13.7 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
Badlands is about a landscape as much as the couple fleeing across it. Watching it, you sense that Malick finds his outlaw lovers beautiful and terrible, pathetic and monstrous, funny and overwhelmingly sad. [27 March 1998]- Posted Mar 4, 2013
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Michael Wilmington 88
A beautiful, almost defiant film on an unusual subject: love among the elderly. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements. -
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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
Visually, even compared to Sayles' own best work, it's somewhat prosaic - and dramatically, it suffers from the fact that its two main characters are kept so far apart. But the screenwriting and the cast redeem this film. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
The kind of movie some audiences are starved for, a comedy with a human face, warmth and spirit. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A picture about America with the blinders off, a film about heroism that makes you chuckle and feel sad - and a film about childhood that lets us reenter that lost world and see the grass, sky and sunlight the way they once looked, in the golden hours. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
There's scarcely a scene in which the actors, action and sound track aren't cranked up to maximum intensity. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
The Zellweger-Firth-Grant triangle works as irresistibly as Hepburn-Grant-Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story." -
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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
These are real characters, fully observed, gutsily written, beautifully acted by the two leads. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It's a summit meeting between three brilliant leading men from three generations with three striking on-screen personas. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A real gem: a deadpan fantasy that turns into one of the best pictures ever about the post-"Star Wars" studio moviemaking era. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A deliberately old-fashioned picture that succeeds in nearly everything it tries to do. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It has a jokey irreverence that keeps it from teetering over the edge to absurdity. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
The simplicity and idealism of The Color of Paradise are part of what makes it so attractive to near-jaded palates here. There are no evil characters in the film. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
An incredibly ambitious film and one of the most highly accomplished of the year. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Showing us a world through a child's eyes, A Time for Drunken Horses speaks so truthfully and well that it breaks the heart and scars the conscience. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
(The film is) one of the most anguished, intense and weirdly brilliant of the year. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A film that uses beautiful tableaux and convincingly raw actors to build to a climax of shatteringly understated poignancy and power. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
It's sensuality with a stinger, and Fat Girl is an adolescent sex drama that takes no prisoners. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Another of those excellent foreign films that sometimes slip though cracks, considered too strange or eccentric for domestic tastes. Strange it is, but delightfully so -
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Michael Wilmington 88
Like a Bach toccata or a frosty drink on a sunlit veranda, a first-class movie spy thriller can offer one of life's cooler, more elegant treats. The Tailor of Panama fits that category. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A mad, resplendent peacock of a film, a cinematographic riot of color and sensuality that evokes its era -- the swinging mid-'60s -- as much as any movie made during those giddy years. -
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Michael Wilmington 88
A noir with a smile, and after all these years, its deft mixture of darkness and light still makes us smile. -
