Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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For 1,559 reviews, this critic has graded:
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72% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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26% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.8 points higher than other critics.
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Steven Rea's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,219 out of 1559
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Mixed: 216 out of 1559
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Negative: 124 out of 1559
1,559
movie reviews
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Steven Rea 88
It is the more satisfying of the two installments - less over-the-top, arterial-gushing violence and more investigation into character, motives, back-story. -
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Steven Rea 88
The great thing about Venus - apart from its sharp eye for the daily routines and drab details of senior citizenry in a buzzing metropolis - is that it isn't soppy, or sentimental. -
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Steven Rea 75
Ajami brings its audience into a world where the cultural conflict is fierce, emotions run high, yet the hopeful vision of peaceful coexistence shines through the cracks. -
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- Posted Jan 20, 2011
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- Posted May 19, 2011
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Steven Rea 88
The beautiful misery of The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Davies' crushing adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play - is almost too much.- Posted Apr 12, 2012
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Steven Rea 100
With no-nonsense narration by Peter Coyote and a soundtrack that's at once apt, ironic and really, really good, The Smartest Guys in the Room is anything but a dry dissection of a major Wall Street debacle. -
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Steven Rea 100
Simply the best adaptation of any John le Carré thriller to make it to the screen. -
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Steven Rea 100
A baseball movie, a stranger-in-a-strange-land movie, a movie about real people facing real challenges in the real world, Sugar is all that and more. -
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Steven Rea 75
It's one of the great have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too performances of the year. -
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Steven Rea 88
It's a tearjerker, sometimes, and sweetly funny at other moments. It's near perfect. -
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Steven Rea 100
It's a relentless and relentlessly funny game of one-upmanship as the two men, playing somewhat exaggerated versions of themselves, roam the hills and dales, posh inns and poetic ruins of England's Lake District.- Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Steven Rea 75
In the end, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban offers what neither of its predecessors, for all their wand-waving and witch-brooms, had: real magic. -
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Steven Rea 63
Has the arc of a Shakespearean tragedy, and all the essential components therein: loyalty and betrayal, conspiracy and delusion, self-destruction. -
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Steven Rea 88
Funny, fear-inducing, with periods of voyeuristic gore and an undercurrent of anxiety and dread, Let the Right One In is up there with the bloodsucking classics. -
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Steven Rea 88
That this purposefully twisting exercise takes place amid the sun-burnished cypresses and towns of Tuscany - where ancient statuary is as commonplace as pasta and wine - only makes this playfully enigmatic meditation the more pleasing.- Posted Mar 31, 2011
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Steven Rea 75
Marley celebrates the fact that its subject is still among us in the way that perhaps matters most: His music not only survives, it thrives.- Posted Apr 20, 2012
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Steven Rea 63
Unlike "Caché" and "Code: Unknown," where Haneke's investigations into societal and spiritual despair resonated with poetic force, The White Ribbon doesn't resonate at all. -
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Steven Rea 88
An exquisite exploration into the realms of seduction, obsession, deception and disillusionment. -
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Steven Rea 88
This is the kind of unusual but involving picture that's ripe for a Hollywood remake - but while you're waiting for the Sandra Bullock-Ethan Hawke edition (it's a good post-movie game: coming up with your own casting ideas), Read My Lips is well worth checking out. -
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Steven Rea 75
Terrific filmmaking, but it's hard to leave Moodysson's picture without feeling much of anything except hopelessness. Utterly. -
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Steven Rea 88
A smart, sensuous and sensory mind trip that caroms around a universe of thought. -
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Steven Rea 100
A tale of horror, heroism, unimaginable physical challenges, and, yes, cannibalism, Stranded offers the kind of real-life drama that can't help but bring up notions of God, fate, and nature's imposing will. -
