Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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For 2,253 reviews, this critic has graded:
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66% higher than the average critic
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.1 points higher than other critics.
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Owen Gleiberman's Scores
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Positive: 1,408 out of 2253
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Mixed: 600 out of 2253
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Negative: 245 out of 2253
2,253
movie reviews
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Like all courtroom dramas, A Few Good Men is gimmicky and synthetic. It's also an irresistible throwback to the sort of sharp-edged entertainment Hollywood once provided with regularity. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
It's not every comedy that can make you laugh with ridicule and cringe in empathetic horror at the same time. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The movie is on some level a stunt, but it has the fervent, sun-dazed pull of an authentic experience unfolding in real time, with glints of drama, comedy, and terror mixed into the almost-but-not-quite tedium. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
A dazzlingly crafted documentary about the teenage surf punks of lower Los Angeles who singlehandedly transformed skateboarding into the extreme sport it has become. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
A deft, funny, shrewdly unsettling tribute to such slasher-exploitation thrillers as "Terror Train," "New Year's Evil," and Craven's own "A Nightmare on Elm Street." -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The writer-director, Peter Sollett, cast the film with kids from his own neighborhood, who give themselves over to the camera with a spirit of improvised play that morphs into vivid, layered acting. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Remains a majestic explosion of pure cinema. It's a hallucinatory poem of fear, projecting, in its scale and spirit, a messianic vision of human warfare stretched to the flashpoint of technological and moral breakdown. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Shrewd, tough, and lively -- a junior-league "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Hoffman plays Dan Mahowny's addiction to instant money as something dirty and private and, at the same time, soul-quickening. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
After a while, a didactic overdeliberateness seeps into Noé's design, but there's no doubt that he's a new kind of dark film wizard: a poet of apocalyptic shock. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
A crowd-pleaser in the deepest sense, mixes heartbreak and happiness together until you don't even want to see them apart. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Does more than capture the excitement of marching bands; it gets their clockwork beauty as well. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Here, in paranoid, bad acid trip form, is the real birth of girl power. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Peter Berg's scandalous sick-joke thriller is packed with rude and clever twists, and it delves, with surprising force, into the hypocritical postures of corporate-era male bonding. The cast is terrific, especially Christian Slater. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Nearly four decades ago, Pontecorvo anatomized the very form of modern terrorist warfare: the hidden cells, the cultish leaders, the brutish cycle of attack and counterattack. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The old-world-meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Has a fractured fairy-tale charm, even if it isn't a nonstop laugh riot. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Deconstructing Harry is Woody Allen's naughty-boy confessional movie, a disquietingly candid and funny portrait of a pathological narcissist. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
It's not every day you get to see a movie that begins in satire and ends in reverence, but then, for Kevin Smith, they may ultimately be the same thing. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
If the result is often as glib as the targets it's satirizing, it's also driven by a cruelly distilled joy. Wag the Dog is an ode to the thrill of deception, a thrill embodied in Hoffman's inspired performance. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
At times, The Iron Giant is more serene than it needs to be, but it's a lovely and touching daydream. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
If Linklater goes to a bit of an extreme here, it's in making both characters so intelligent and sincere, so ardent and giving, that they seem a little too good to believe. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
It's a beautiful contraption of a movie, a gothic backwoods fable that uses its naive yet murderous hero to walk a fine line between sentimentality and dread. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Lynch's first movie since ''Blue Velvet'' that truly envelops you in its spell. It's a piece of celestial Americana -- his journey to the light side of the moon. -
