Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
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For 1,280 reviews, this critic has graded:
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48% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
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Scott Tobias' Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 647 out of 1280
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Mixed: 470 out of 1280
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Negative: 163 out of 1280
1,280
movie reviews
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Scott Tobias 100
Conceptually bold and rapturously beautiful Gerry, a minimalist landscape film that's unlike anything on the American independent scene. -
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Scott Tobias 100
Kaufman strikes just the right balance between playfulness and sincerity, leaping freely from one absurd situation to another before pulling back on the reins. -
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Scott Tobias 100
Virtually every Super Technirama frame of Luchino Visconti's 1963 masterpiece The Leopard could be described as "painterly" in its ornate details and exquisitely balanced color compositions. (Review of DVD Release) -
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Scott Tobias 100
When a director of Scorsese's caliber is working at the top of his game, it's a reminder of why we go to the movies in the first place. -
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Scott Tobias 100
Zodiac is the rare serial-killer movie in which the psychosis stems as much from the pursuers (and the filmmaker) as the pursued. -
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Scott Tobias 100
No one writes for ensembles better than Apatow, and his players are all skilled at giving his work a loose, improvisational feel. -
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Scott Tobias 100
A peculiar and destabilizing tone that's far from the standard Hollywood oater, but entirely fitting for two larger-than-life characters fulfilling their roles in history. -
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Scott Tobias 100
If nothing else, the film puts the lie to the notion that an abortion could ever be frivolous or lightly considered. On that point, everyone in Lake Of Fire agrees, whether they acknowledge the other side or not. -
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Scott Tobias 100
4 Months unfolds like one of those street-level Dardenne brothers movies (Rosetta, L'Enfant). -
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Scott Tobias 100
With Standard Operating Procedure, the Iraq War finally has its Hearts And Minds. -
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Scott Tobias 100
It may be painful at times, but Rachel Getting Married sure is one heck of a party. -
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Scott Tobias 100
At bottom, Silent Light is less about faith than matters of the heart, and in Reygadas' hands, the ache is bone-deep. -
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Scott Tobias 100
The film evolves into a simple, intimate, acutely emotional portrait of a family reaching a painful crossroads. -
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Scott Tobias 100
There are many layers to the man and the movie, and it’s hard not to leave the theater shaken. -
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Scott Tobias 100
It's an exhilaratingly unpredictable experience, and not an easy one to shake. -
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Scott Tobias 100
A moving, gently reassuring tale that softens the boundaries between humanity and nature, life and the afterlife.- Posted Mar 3, 2011
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Scott Tobias 100
Meticulous and immersive, Meek's Cutoff feels like history in three dimensions.- Posted Apr 7, 2011
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Scott Tobias 100
In terms of scale, The Tree Of Life recalls the mammoth ambition of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," but it's also more intimate and personal than Malick's previous films, rooted in vivid memories of growing up in '50s Texas.- Posted May 26, 2011
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Scott Tobias 100
The film is little more than an exercise in style, but it's dazzling and mythic, a testament to the fundamental appeal of fast cars, dangerous men, and tension that squeezes like a hand to the throat.- Posted Sep 14, 2011
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Scott Tobias 100
Beyond the impeccable performances and direction, it's foremost an exceptional piece of screenwriting, so finely wrought that the drama seems guided by an invisible hand.- Posted Dec 29, 2011
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Scott Tobias 100
The Turin Horse has a burnished beauty that's awe-inspiring, like a clear window into a faraway world as it dangles, and then falls, off the precipice.- Posted Feb 8, 2012
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Scott Tobias 100
There's a suffocating air to The Deep Blue Sea that makes it harder to access than other period romances of its kind, but Davies aligns himself wholly with Hester.- Posted Mar 21, 2012
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Scott Tobias 100
Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's most completely satisfying film since the one-two of "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums," in part because it's the perfect distillation of both.- Posted May 23, 2012
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Scott Tobias 100
It's a feisty, contentious, deliberately misshapen film, designed to challenge and frustrate audiences looking for a clean resolution. Just because it's over doesn't mean it's settled.- Posted Sep 12, 2012
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Scott Tobias 100
The film feels as beautifully calibrated as a great piece of short fiction, only with visual accents and emphases filling in for the prose. It's a relationship movie where the most important exchanges remain unspoken.- Posted Oct 24, 2012
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Scott Tobias 100
Zero Dark Thirty stands to become the dominant narrative about this important historical event, no matter its distortions, composites, or other slippery feints of storytelling. In that, it wields a dangerous power.- Posted Dec 18, 2012
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Scott Tobias 100
A director known for the icy classicism and genre subversion of films like "Funny Games" and "Caché," Haneke has a pitilessness that could not be more perfect for Amour, which would collapse at any whiff of sentimentality.- Posted Dec 18, 2012
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Scott Tobias 100
A chilly and extraordinarily controlled treatise on film violence, Funny Games punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire. Neat trick, that.- Posted Mar 19, 2013
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Scott Tobias 100
The audience is indicted for its bloodlust. There's perversity in paying admission to get harshly scolded, and Funny Games is not for the squeamish, but this may be one time to step up and take the licking you deserve.- Posted Mar 20, 2013
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