Michelle Orange, Movieline
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For 196 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 78% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Michelle Orange's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 65
Highest review score:
A Film Unfinished
Critic Score 90
Lowest review score:
Zookeeper
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 124 out of 196
  2. Mixed: 64 out of 196
  3. Negative: 8 out of 196
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    • Metascore: 88
    • Michelle Orange 90
    A Film Unfinished
    The imperatives of history are manifold, and this film is among the most urgent of them. You cannot look, and you must look: This happened. They were human beings. All of them.
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    • Metascore: 66
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Splice
    Heady, creaturely, and looking for trouble, Splice is also a sovereign creation: Conceived and midwived by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), it suggests the pure-bred Canadian love child of James Cameron and Margaret Atwood (I see David Cronenberg presiding over the baptism).
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    • Metascore: 78
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Racing Dreams
    Slick without feeling over-determined, Racing Dreams evokes -- just as, oddly enough, "Toy Story 3" does -- the more general feeling of childhood on the precipice.
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    • Metascore: 88
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Inside Job
    Even more than it wants to inform Inside Job seeks to enrage.
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    • Metascore: 80
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Another Year
    It's as subversive and penetrating a treatment of the British character as we get on the big screen, and it's why I don't mind that Leigh keeps them coming 'round with the reliability of the cocktail hour.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Tiny Furniture
    The complementary tone of droll but freighted psychodrama she strikes in Tiny Furniture feels like a significant but precarious achievement. I feel a pinch of worry for her - as I did for Aura - looking into a future of Rudins and Apatows.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Winnie the Pooh
    The effect recalls the beguiling lightness of the good old Disney, where clever visual and thematic feats are deftly interwoven and yet tossed off with an insouciance that favors playfulness above all.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Arthur Christmas
    Arthur Christmas is a Grinch-style story of rekindled Christmas spirit told from inside Santa's compound at the North Pole.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Michelle Orange 85
    The Future
    July is more of a presence than an actress, or even a believable persona.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Trust
    One of the most chilling things about Trust is how well it lays out the grooming strategies used by expert predators.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Michelle Orange 85
    The Double Hour
    To say too much about what actually happens would be to rob you of the film's risks and narrative ripostes. What should be noted is that Capotondi makes ambitious use of an unreliable narrator in a way that is rarely seen in modern films.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Project Nim
    "A chimp could not have a better mother," Terrace declares of his decision. The people in this film say stuff like that a lot.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Tectonic pacing builds to a series of imperceptible and yet earth-moving moments in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, a habeas corpus procedural stretched across two and a half discursive hours.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Michelle Orange 85
    Beasts of the Southern Wild
    The success of this exuberant, affecting debut feature from director Benh Zeitlin depends on his ability to universalize the particular, in this case by drawing us into the perspective of a six-year-old girl living in squalor and feeling and uncertainty in the Louisiana bayou, then telling our own story from behind it.

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