Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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For 1,813 reviews, this critic has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.6 points lower than other critics.
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Stephen Holden's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 793 out of 1813
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Mixed: 736 out of 1813
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Negative: 284 out of 1813
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Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn. -
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An astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China’s economic miracle. -
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This consistently gripping, visually intoxicating film stands as a landmark of contemporary Turkish cinema. -
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Belongs to a school of Central European surrealism that marries nightmarish horror with formal beauty. -
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Several times while watching the movie I laughed until the tears were running down my face. -
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One of the most insightful and wrenching portraits of the joys and tribulations of being a classical musician ever filmed. -
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If there's one movie that ought to be studied by military and civilian leaders around the world at this treacherous historical moment, it is The Fog of War, Errol Morris's sober, beautifully edited documentary portrait of the former United States defense secretary Robert S. McNamara. -
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Creates a cinematic mosaic of American lives unprecedented in its range, balance, subtlety and even-handedness. -
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A virtuoso ensemble piece to rival the director's "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" in its masterly interweaving of multiple characters and subplots. -
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What makes this exquisitely observed slice of American screen realism transcend itself is finally its moral sensibility. -
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Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain. -
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When a film as profoundly quiet as In the Bedroom comes along, it feels almost miraculous, as if a shimmering piece of art had slipped below the radar and through the minefield of commerce. -
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In what has been called the Year of the Documentary, "My Flesh and Blood" stands beside "Capturing the Friedmans" and "The Fog of War" as an unforgettable experience. -
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By surrendering any semblance of rationality to create a post-Freudian, pulp-fiction fever dream of a movie, Mr. Lynch ends up shooting the moon with Mulholland Drive. -
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Sustains a documentary authenticity that is as astonishing as it is offhand. Even when you're on the edge of your seat, it never sacrifices a calm, clear-sighted humanity for the sake of melodrama or cheap moralizing. -
- Stephen Holden
Bad Education is a voluptuous experience that invites you to gorge on its beauty and vitality, although it has perhaps the darkest ending of any of the films by the Spanish writer and director. -
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Eloquent, meticulously structured documentary -- Sober political and legal analysis alternates with grim first-hand accounts of torture and murder in a film that has the structure of a choral symphony that swells to a bittersweet finale. -
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A beautifully written, seamlessly directed film with award-worthy performances by Ms. Rampling and Ms. Young. -
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Was it all for naught? Only weeks after the 23 partisans were arrested (and all but two promptly executed), Paris was liberated. Army of Crime is a passionate act of remembrance. -
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The best movie of its kind since the French director Guillaume Canet's hit from 2006, "Tell No One."- Posted Apr 14, 2011
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- Stephen Holden
My Perestroika gives you a privileged sense of learning the history of a place not from a book but from the people who lived it. Watching it is a little like attending a party in an unfamiliar city and discovering the place's secrets from the guests.- Posted Mar 22, 2011
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- Stephen Holden
It is a rich, beautifully organized and illustrated modern history of Eastern European Jewry examined through the life and work of the author, born Sholem Rabinovich in Pereyaslav (near Kiev) in 1859.- Posted Jul 7, 2011
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Throughout We Were Here there is not a hint of mawkishness, self-pity or self-congratulation. The humility, wisdom and cumulative sorrow expressed lend the film a glow of spirituality and infuse it with grace.- Posted Sep 8, 2011
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- Stephen Holden
Post-Soviet Russia in Andrei Zvyagintsev's somber, gripping film Elena is a moral vacuum where money rules, the haves are contemptuous of the have-nots, and class resentment simmers. The movie, which shuttles between the center of Moscow and its outskirts, is grim enough to suggest that even if you were rich, you wouldn't want to live there.- Posted May 17, 2012
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