Charlotte Observer's Scores
- Movies
For 1,354 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 868 out of 1354
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Mixed: 233 out of 1354
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Negative: 253 out of 1354
1,354
movie reviews
- By critic score
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Lawrence Toppman 100
A tribute to anyone who ever picked up a score, a pen, a paintbrush or a grease pencil - or a movie camera. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
The usually quiet Zellweger is the revelation: Like her character, the actress seems happily amazed to find herself crossing a polished dance floor, sheathed in silk and diamonds, having the naughty, self-glorifying time of her life. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
A spruced-up version has been re-released after 22 years, and the addition of 43 minutes means the story really has room to breathe. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
For a movie that ends in the profoundest depths of sadness, Boys Don't Cry contains one of the year's purest moments of joy. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Just as moving, uplifting and funny as ever in its slightly modified form. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
The most atmospheric thing in the movie is Farnsworth's face. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
A dark comedy that's as emotionally honest as any picture of 2002. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Jackson surpasses the expectations anyone might have had for him with The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment of his trilogy devoted to J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
One of the most uncompromisingly bleak films I've ever seen. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Yet its visual surrealism, identity-bending and strong social/ecological message make it as much an allegory as a fable. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Pixar's employees, masters of computer-generated animation, capture the look of the ocean like no artists before. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Pearce, who's in every scene except the Sammy flashbacks, dominates the picture through his feral performance. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Watching it again reminded me how remarkably the sound engineers did their jobs. Listen to the subtly amplified heartbeat - Ripley's? the ship's? - that pulses under the soundtrack through the last 15 minutes. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Its uniqueness lies in its juxtaposition of happy faces and unhappy realities, of fleeting expressions of art and culture undone by daily brutality. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Jackson had the vision, persistence, insight and patience for this mighty job, plus the smarts to shape stage veterans and overlooked film actors into a seamless cast. He's made himself as immortal as a movie director can be. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
The film's proudest boast is that nary a frame comes from documentary footage...Every riot, every explosion, every seemingly spontaneous gundown in the streets of Algiers was staged, then shot in black-and-white stock that intentionally echoes newsreel footage. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
This meditation on spirituality, loneliness and accountability could touch your heart's core. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
U.S. geography doesn't matter to Payne. He always charts the terrain of the human heart, and he's among the wisest of mapmakers. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
He's (Yimou) like a painter combining bloody reds, sunshine yellows and pale blues in the harmony of a masterpiece. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Reveals the drama and degredation so powerfully that it ranks among the all-time heavyweights of sports movies. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
What surprises us most is the picture's topicality, and not just because terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon three years ago. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
One of the most heartbreaking, unforgettable dramas in years. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
For the first time since "X-Men," I was on the edge of my seat anticipating a sequel, wondering who'd play the Joker and how quickly Nolan - it must be Nolan! - can bring the next chapter of this story to the screen. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
A picture from an old man working at the top of his game. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
Squid keeps you on your toes, but payoffs will have you smiling - maybe in rueful recognition of the truth - in scene after scene. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
It'll preach mainly to the choir - lazy thinkers won't attend, despite George Clooney's attachment as director and actor - but maybe it'll wake a few sleepers. -
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Lawrence Toppman 100
The giddiest and funniest animated film of the year. -
