Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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For 1,558 reviews, this critic has graded:
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72% higher than the average critic
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26% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10 points higher than other critics.
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Steven Rea's Scores
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Positive: 1,219 out of 1558
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Mixed: 215 out of 1558
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Negative: 124 out of 1558
1,558
movie reviews
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Steven Rea 100
It doesn't happen often, but when it does, look out: a movie that rocks and rolls, that transports, startles, delights, shocks, seduces. A movie that is, quite simply, great. -
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Steven Rea 100
Wendy and Lucy is modest, minimalist. But it nonetheless reverberates like a sonic boom. -
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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 100
Witty and wonderful, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the perfect Thanksgiving entertainment. -
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Steven Rea 100
35 Shots of Rum is visual poetry, but poetry that examines the human condition with insight and illumination. -
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Steven Rea 100
A pitch-perfect portrait of a man full of inspiration and ambition - and full of himself. -
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Steven Rea 100
If Malik doesn't remind you of Al Pacino's Michael Corleone on his journey from innocence to corruption in "The Godfather" saga, well . . . he should. A Prophet is similarly, startlingly momentous. -
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Steven Rea 100
Offers a view of war that is anything but epic. Instead of sweeping battles and swooping fighter planes, in Lebanon we are brought into the impossibly claustrophobic world of a lone tank crew. -
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Steven Rea 100
Wild and woolly, the movie is a breathtaking head trip that hails from a long tradition of backstage melodramas: "42nd Street," "A Star Is Born," "All About Eve," and, yes, that kitschy '90s relic, "Showgirls."- Posted Dec 6, 2010
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Steven Rea 100
While White Material is very much the story of this one woman, it is also a story of postcolonial Africa, a place where Europeans staked their claim, and where disorder and destruction upended everything. A mournful, frightening, powerful film.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Steven Rea 100
Yun's performance is remarkable. The journey Mija takes is painful and hard and - for us, watching - sublime.- Posted Mar 3, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
A beautiful, head-spinning mystery that requires keen attention - and rewards it with a tricky and poetic payoff - The Double Hour is a topflight Euro thriller right up there with "Tell No One."- Posted Apr 28, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
13 Assassins is, at turns, thrilling and funny, visually exquisite and emotionally charged.- Posted May 12, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
Still, somehow, The Tree of Life - impressionistic, revelatory, elliptical - works.- Posted Jun 9, 2011
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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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- Posted Sep 22, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
This taut cautionary tale explores the dark side of American politics. And leaves the viewer to wonder - if anyone's still wondering - is there a bright side?- Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
Take Shelter, which, it should be said, boasts haunting but seamless visual effects, is a movie for this moment in time, this moment in our lives.- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
Moves from its protagonist's dream state to her memories to her waking present in imperceptible shifts - the effect is disorienting, at first, but ingenious.- Posted Oct 27, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
Clooney has never been better, subtler, more deeply rooted in a performance than he is in The Descendants. And he's funny, too.- Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
Strangely, wonderfully, The Artist feels as bold and innovative a moviegoing experience as James Cameron's bells-and-whistles Avatar did a couple of years ago. Retro becomes nuevo. Quaint becomes cool.- Posted Dec 22, 2011
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Steven Rea 100
The real 3-D experience of the season is Pina, Wim Wenders' shockingly beautiful and moving tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch.- Posted Jan 26, 2012
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Steven Rea 100
The usual complaints and caveats about Anderson - he's precious, his characters have no grounding in the real world - can be made about Moonrise Kingdom, but so what? This is his seventh feature, he has been working with a gang of collaborators in front of the camera and behind, and his worldview gets richer, and more revealing, even as the view from his lens gets smaller, closer, almost two-dimensional in its oddball tableaux.- Posted Jun 7, 2012
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