Paula Nechak, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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For 291 reviews, this critic has graded:
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.7 points higher than other critics.
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Paula Nechak's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 186 out of 291
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Mixed: 86 out of 291
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Negative: 19 out of 291
291
movie reviews
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Paula Nechak 100
Even knowing the happy outcome, Butler masterfully keeps us on the edge of our seats, and communicates the full horror and seeming hopelessness of the crew's situation every step of the way. -
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Paula Nechak 91
Pawlikowski has made a gorgeously ambiguous film -- based upon a novel by Helen Cross -- that is blessedly hard to tag; in fact, it's a compilation of genres and moods -- comedy, romance and diabolical thriller -- and that is its core strength and freshness. -
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Paula Nechak 91
A film that takes you by surprise, refusing to relinquish its grim, fascinating hold. Better yet, it has crept up on us without much advance promotional fanfare. The less known about its twists, the better. -
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Paula Nechak 91
In the end, this is a film about retribution and justice within unjust circumstances. Each character has a personal code of honor -- Arthur, Charlie and Capt. Stanley are all given their dignity -- and it's that code that sets the film apart. -
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Paula Nechak 91
The two women -- as well as the always marvelous Bill Nighy as Blanchett's "older" husband -- run roughshod over its third act flaws and, with their exquisitely detailed performances, make it better than it is. It's an actor's triumph. -
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Paula Nechak 91
The actors are all well-cast, thoughtful and sometimes funny. Tabu was apparently not Nair's first choice, but after watching her in the role it's hard to imagine anyone else -- she's heartbreakingly good. -
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Paula Nechak 91
For all its moodiness, despair and disconnect, I've Loved You So Long is all about acknowledging human error and embracing ties -- to family and life -- that can't be undone. -
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Paula Nechak 91
Fascinating, visually gorgeous cinematic study that will frustrate some viewers by its ambiguity. -
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Paula Nechak 91
Gorgeous in its gore and, for all its destruction, despair and death, concludes on an optimistic and vibrantly alive note. -
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Paula Nechak 91
A radically disturbing and memorable movie whose images don't easily fade or diminish in power. -
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Paula Nechak 91
Istanbul-born director Ferzan Ozpetek has outdone himself with this wise and ruminative mystery about memory, unfulfillment and yearning. -
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Paula Nechak 91
It assaults us with violence, brutality, sexual confusion and anarchy and has enough bruising, punishing humor to keep us laughing with relief. -
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Paula Nechak 91
John Cameron Mitchell credits Plato as the inspiration for his rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Now Mitchell has turned his play into a raucous, touching celebration of a film. -
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Paula Nechak 91
Terrifically fun entertainment; wonderfully shot and acted, instilled with spirit and life and able to woo us with its exhuberant freshness. -
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Paula Nechak 83
In remarkably compact and quietly concise vignettes, we're introduced to each member, and immediately understand what they're all about. -
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Paula Nechak 83
A darkly funny journey about life ticking by and the change to make wrongs right. -
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Paula Nechak 83
The film is thriller, comedy and rite-of-passage story, but Boyle never loses sight of what's at its core. -
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Paula Nechak 83
It's a quiet anti-war film full of lovely, heartbreakingly assured performances and real situations and responses. -
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Paula Nechak 83
The performances by Davidtz, Weston, Wilson and especially Adams stand out as Morrison paints his character study with raw, true bits continually tested by the absurdities of pain life dishes up. -
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Paula Nechak 83
Cruz is tough and sexy as the no-nonsense Raimunda and she's being deservedly talked up for an Oscar nomination in a tight best actress year. -
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Paula Nechak 83
An odd charmer with a whisper of autobiography (Blitz makes his film's protagonist a stutterer, just as the director was in school) and it's made even better by young lead actor Reece Thompson. -
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Paula Nechak 83
Ullmann has honed a too-long and sometimes relentless film that delves into the selfishness of passion but also captures the elusiveness and unpredictability of love. -
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Paula Nechak 83
It's compelling, poetic, rebellious, funny and one of the few movies that feels like it's been culled from another time and place yet broodingly bends modern societal taboos. -
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Paula Nechak 83
First-time feature film director Max Farberbock has given a terrific visual style, resonance, sense of hope and power to the material. -
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Paula Nechak 83
If you can forgive some plot artifice and gloss, there's a seductively intuitive and resonant theme resting at the core of Jeremy Podeswa's haunting new film. -
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Paula Nechak 83
This devastating film is buoyed by Dequenne's bravura willingness to go all out; she's a baby-faced kid when the camera focuses full on and an exceptionally beautiful young woman in profile. -
