Philip Kennicott, Washington Post
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For 42 reviews, this critic has graded:
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26% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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67% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Philip Kennicott's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 59 |
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90
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20
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 42
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Mixed: 15 out of 42
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Negative: 6 out of 42
42
movie reviews
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Philip Kennicott 50
Shrink is no worse than the average Hollywood comedy. But it shows, more obviously than most, the bankruptcy of standard-issue American pop narrative, circa 2009. -
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Philip Kennicott 50
Sad to say, the new Matthew Barney opus, Drawing Restraint 9, made in collaboration with his main squeeze, Bjork, doesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the "Cremaster" series. -
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Philip Kennicott 50
What Rulfo needs, unfortunately, is what too many trendy directors forsake: some social context, some succinct voice-overs and some talking heads to put the serious issues (urban poverty, urban stress, environmental degradation, corruption) into perspective. -
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Philip Kennicott 50
You are left with the feeling that either Grossman hasn't done justice to the Germs or the justice they deserved was to spend eternity as a historical footnote. -
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Philip Kennicott 50
Gibney's documentary strains to make sense of the minutiae without losing the audience's attention over its formidable, two-hour length. -
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Philip Kennicott 40
If a few decent actors play their roles and defend their turf, it doesn't matter how preposterous the whole proposition is. -
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Philip Kennicott 30
It isn't so much a movie as a superheated, highly conductive miracle substance for the pure transmission of masculine aggression and misogyny. -
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Philip Kennicott 30
A not-quite-funny comedy that devolves into a tedious discussion of miracles and redemption. -
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Philip Kennicott 30
It's all wildly implausible and occasionally fun, but it could be so much better if director Randall Miller (who co-wrote the screenplay) had thrown in a little more character development and excised a half-dozen crazy plot twists. -
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Philip Kennicott 30
Donkey Punch is almost humorless, and there's no wink and nudge behind the mayhem to absolve us of taking its ugly, class-obsessed subtext seriously. -
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Philip Kennicott 20
Even the basic look of the film -- it was filmed on a stage with every shot set against a bleak, dark backdrop -- underscores the filmmaker's position as master manipulator, in a laboratory, looking down at his mice running through his maze. -
