Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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For 2,243 reviews, this critic has graded:
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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: 1,400 out of 2243
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Mixed: 598 out of 2243
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Negative: 245 out of 2243
2,243
movie reviews
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Offers terrific interviews with the surviving Funk Brothers, who provide a tasty insider history of 4 a.m. recording sessions inside ''the snake pit'' (as the fabled Studio A was known) as well as a chilling description of their final kiss-off from Berry Gordy, the Motown mogul who treated them like indentured servants. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A no-frills docu-Dogma plainness, yet Miller lingers on invisible, nearly psychic nuances, leaping into digressions of memory and desire. She boxes these women's souls right open for us. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
As tricky and satisfying as any of David Mamet's airless cinematic shell games. Mamet's films are all plot and no atmosphere; this one has a squalid, urban-greed-meets-the-gutter mood that lends its filigreed cleverness an unusually resonant kick. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The most exhilarating movie so far this year. It's made up of many familiar elements -- think ''Monsoon Wedding'' meets ''My Beautiful Laundrette'' meets ''Personal Best'' -- yet before long, you catch on to how buoyant and funny and original it is. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
This documentary about the triumph of the New Hollywood employs a treasure trove of interviews and clips to create a rich understanding of the many forces -- cultural undertows, really -- that flowed together to fill the void left by the dying studio system. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Memento, which may be the ultimate existential thriller, has a spooky repetitive urgency that takes on the clarity of a dream. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A movie that re-creates its object of satire with such pitch-perfect flair that it all but erases the line between derision and love. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The School of Rock was made by gifted veterans of the American indie scene, but it's still the most unlikely great movie of the year. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Presents Glass as a masterfully corrupt fabulist who convinced himself of the ultimate seductive lie, which is that there can't be anything wrong with telling people what they want to hear. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Harrison Ford as the President of the United States is such a perfect piece of casting that it's at once a fantasy and a joke: The joke is how perfect the fantasy is. [25 Jul 1997, p. 48] -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The beauty of Two Girls and a Guy is that it presents us with a hero so craven, so indefensible in his duplicity, that his twin victims leapfrog past vengeance into an almost physical state of curiosity. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The movie version, directed with unobtrusive precision by James Foley, stays amazingly true to the play's feisty spirit. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
As he rises to each challenge, you realize that von Trier, the most exalted of prankish sadists, has orchestrated the filmmaking equivalent of the story of Job. The Five Obstructions glories in art, life, and the faith that binds them. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
It reveals Bukowski to be a far grander artist than his bum's armor would suggest. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The new film, which unfolds in real time over the course of 80 minutes, is a deeper, darker, altogether more memorable experience. It doesn't extend the characters so much as fulfill them. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A conventionally heightened series of escapes and clashes and hide-and-seek gambits, yet the way the film has been made, nothing that happens seems inevitable -- which is to say, anything seems possible. There's a word for that sensation. It's called excitement. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
In spirit, Open Water reduces us to children peering through our fingers, waiting for the horrid deliverance we're not quite sure we want to see. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The film is at times harrowing to watch, yet it's also wry and delicate and absorbing. It's infused with the messy excitement of imperfect passion. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A gripping documentary that uses voluminous period evidence — unedited news footage, tape recordings of SLA leader Cinque's rants — to brilliantly reconstruct the entire freak event. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Beautifully edited, Go Tigers! is an enthralling look at the drama that can transpire in the autumn of one small town on any given Friday. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Nimble, engrossing, and journalistically eye-opening, a movie that pulls into focus 30 years of porn in America. It also pulls no punches. -
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