Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
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For 907 reviews, this critic has graded:
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47% higher than the average critic
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2 points lower than other critics.
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Stephen Hunter's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 444 out of 907
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Mixed: 233 out of 907
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Negative: 230 out of 907
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Stephen Hunter 90
Water, set in 1930s India, is something pretty rare in the world of movies: an artistic muckraker. It is superb and strange at once, a discreet and self-disciplined attack dog of a movie. -
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Stephen Hunter 90
About as good a picture of a writer's real life as we are likely to get. It is wide-ranging, it is fair, it is thorough, and although it admires, it is also tough enough to condemn. -
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Stephen Hunter 90
And that's the surprise of the movie, beyond even the humor and humanity of its inside look at contemporary American Indian culture. It's really the oldest and most primal story forms, the one about the old man and the boy. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
A deft, tense, pure thriller, the movie has great star turns and is brilliantly directed, but it began as an extremely well-crated screenplay by Russell Gewirtz. It's professionally entertaining. -
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Stephen Hunter 50
As spectacular as it is dense and as dense as it is colorful and as colorful as it is meaningless and as meaningless as it is long. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
It is kept watchable and empathetic by the energy of the superb performances and the sense of complete freshness. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
Certainly no feel-good flick of the summer. But it's always tough and honest. -
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Stephen Hunter 90
In its insistence on the centrality of the war to the collective consciousness of mankind, it's of a piece with "The English Patient," rather than "Saving Private Ryan." -
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Stephen Hunter 80
The movie is one of those brilliant and rare blends of paradoxical elements -- both the tragedy and the folly of history, the weight of inheritance, the pressure of the ideal, lots of fairly steamy sex, even a secret agent or two. -
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Stephen Hunter 70
The film is nowhere near the level of Pontecorvo's masterpiece, or even his subsequent flawed allegory on Vietnam, "Burn!," but is clearly the work of a natural coming into the full range of his powers. -
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Stephen Hunter 90
The director isn't much on orgies; he's all talk. But that's good, not bad, because his talk is so brilliant. Stillman is the Balzac of the ironic class, the Dickens of people with too much inner life. -
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Stephen Hunter 90
It has the aspirations of an epic of crime and punishment, a superb feel for time and milieu, and an almost subliminal feel for myth. -
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Stephen Hunter 70
Andre Hennicke is particularly chilling as the yappy mad dog judge who sends them to death. -
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Stephen Hunter 100
It's brilliantly acted. But best of all, it's brilliantly made. -
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Stephen Hunter 50
It all adds up to something less powerful and interesting than the original. -
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Stephen Hunter 90
Well told, handsome, stirring and loads of fun. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
It's a document that suggests that the road to hell is paved with bad communication skills. -
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Stephen Hunter 70
Here are old people in all the magnificence of their elderliness. The movie doesn't pretend like getting old is any fun. But it's about the transcendental power of -- well, yes, music; and each of these folks has a talent whose expression is a fuel to survive. -
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Stephen Hunter 70
This is a great liberal movie, which is to say, it will be loved most passionately by great liberals, and despised by the conservatives it contemptuously fails to notice. -
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Stephen Hunter 90
What a good movie. Sometimes you get tired of 'splaining and you just want to say: Hey, this one's really very good. That's all, folks. It's a damn good movie. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
In noir, everybody's guilty, and that's one of the pleasures of Joy Ride. The three youngsters aren't exactly innocent. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
If you view it passively, as a well-crafted melodrama set in danger among passionate antagonists, The Boxer is rewarding enough. If you attack it intellectually, you see the degree to which it is informed by ideas and realize the power of its argument. -
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Stephen Hunter 70
The result is a panorama of European radicalism. Depending on your politics, you may think "long live the revolution" or "curse the day the CIA ended its assassination program." -
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Stephen Hunter 90
A stunner -- as big and messy as a war, as small and perfect as a diamond. -
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Stephen Hunter 70
The movie is pure pro-choice agitprop, as it tracks Homer's conversion to the cause of choice and posits the heroism of the abortionist. Pro-lifers will hate it on that point alone. -
