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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1% same as the average critic
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
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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movie reviews
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Stephen Hunter 80
A considerable kick, though it would have helped if one of the boys had wiped off the lens of the camera once in a while. -
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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 80
Tried hard to honor the spirit of the franchise, not exploit it, and take it to a new level and a surprising destination. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
Although nowhere near the class of its equine hero, is quite a satisfying ride. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
Let it swindle you; it's part of the fun. In fact, it's all of the fun. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
There've been dozens of shotgun movies, most of them directed by Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch," "The Getaway") but Berg is inventive...All this, and Christopher Walken too? What more could a fella ask for? -
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Stephen Hunter 80
The film occasionally drags -- a money transfer scene set in a department store lasts longer than several geologic epochs -- but it's so funny and the plot twists are so sudden and violent it's great fun. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
What a superb job director Marcus Nispel has done re-creating, yet also revising, 1974's grisly, gristly, protein-centric masterpiece. -
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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
Takes its absurd premise and keeps itself narrowly focused, pushing its heroic cast through obstacle after obstacle. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
So drippy and slippery you'll feel that you're hiding in Kevin Costner's nasal passages during the filming of "Waterworld." -
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Stephen Hunter 80
Its images of the destruction of the cities is far more powerful than in American films, where the cities are trashed for the pure pleasure of destruction, without any real sense of human loss. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
Strayed has the strange clarity of a fable. It strips everything away until only instincts and emotions are left. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
Frequently funny, just as frequently repulsive, it's filmed in Waters's trademark deadpan style that some adore and some loathe. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
It's a terrific film because each of the characters is so fiercely felt. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
Will seem a classic if you're stoned, and only slightly less funny if you're straight. -
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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 80
This unpretentious little bit of superior craftsmanship will be utterly mesmerizing to two kinds of people in particular: those who love cell phones and those who hate them. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
It never smirks or condescends as does, say, a Michael Moore; it never seems smug and superior, only committed and compassionate. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
John Waters may not be a great filmmaker, but he's usually onto something, and A Dirty Shame is onto something big. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
Unlike so many pagan entertainments that seem to have no moral center as they blow things up, this one in fact does. It's very small, but it's there. -
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Stephen Hunter 80
The movie builds slowly to its grinding climax, and the suspense -- the standard by which a thriller must primarily be judged -- is first-rate. -
