Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian
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For 1,301 reviews, this critic has graded:
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31% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.6 points higher than other critics.
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Shawn Levy's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 968 out of 1301
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Mixed: 267 out of 1301
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Negative: 66 out of 1301
1,301
movie reviews
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Shawn Levy 100
One of the most joyous, diverting and original mainstream American movies in years. -
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Shawn Levy 100
The film, built around McKellen's magnificent performance, is a sleek and deceptively artful work, a bio-pic that manages to encompass the whole of a man's rich life by concentrating solely on the final months of it. -
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Shawn Levy 100
A gorgeous, engrossing, utterly alien and fresh movie that has the human truth and impact of classic Greek myth and the overwhelming beauty and mastery of the greatest epic films. -
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Shawn Levy 100
It's a triumph of the film that it manages to make Jeffrey Dahmer a human being -- at least a member of the species -- without ever bending toward empathy with or excuses for him. -
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Shawn Levy 100
Almost more valuable as a piece of foreign policy than as the highly accomplished work of cinema it is. -
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Shawn Levy 100
The adaptation of "King Lear" to feudal Japan is an extraordinary spectacle. -
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Shawn Levy 100
Not only does this film make you think, it makes you want to think. Few films -- few works of art of any stripe -- can claim that. -
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Shawn Levy 100
The animation is even more mind-blowing, if that's possible. The characters and objects seem even more palpable and real than last time. There's a thickness to bodies of the human characters and an amazing attention to detail throughout. -
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Shawn Levy 100
But the human elements -- jealousy, anger, weakness, fortitude, loyalty, vengeance and honor, all acted out by a resolutely realistic cast -- make the movie extraordinary. -
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Shawn Levy 100
Teems with pot smoke, body parts and profane outbursts -- you ride a giggly wave throughout, jokes and turn-ons and shocking sights alternating in buoyant fashion. -
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Shawn Levy 100
Demanding, harrowing and very, very real. You won't shake its impact easily. -
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Shawn Levy 100
Brimming with bittersweet wit and emotion and built with deceptively fluent craft. -
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Shawn Levy 100
It's quite possible that Titanic is one of the greatest romantic epics ever filmed. -
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Shawn Levy 100
The timing and cutting of the film are terrific, the build-up to an absurdly hilarious climax is just right, and the performances are near perfect. -
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Shawn Levy 100
One of the greatest films about the civilian experience of war ever made anywhere. -
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Shawn Levy 100
The film reveals itself to be not so much a historical allegory as an Iliad of the heart. It's sad and smart and beautiful and true. -
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Shawn Levy 100
An exhilarating slap in the face, bracing and sexy, smart and visceral, stylish and raw -- the advent of a fabulously exciting new moviemaking talent. -
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Shawn Levy 100
About as good a movie as you could have hoped for. Really good. Hole-in-one good. -
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Shawn Levy 100
One of the best films ever made in this country, filled with our proudest national virtues, cognizant of our deeply rooted human weaknesses and frighteningly able to evoke emotions. -
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Shawn Levy 100
It's hard to recall the last time a big-ticket summer movie delivered so fully on its promise. -
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Shawn Levy 100
A spell-binding, engaging and often breathtaking work in which exquisite sets, costumes, photography and music combine with top-notch acting and out-of-this-world fighting scenes. -
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