For 4,198 reviews, this publication has graded:
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34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points higher than other critics.
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Positive: 2,814 out of 4198
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Michael Wilmington 100
A brilliant entertainment, full of bemused skepticism and reckless, prodigal love -- for these people and their vanishing era and lives. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Like all great fantasies and epics, this one leaves you with the sense that its wonders are real, its dreams are palpable. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Probing... haunting. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
The sheer stark speed and measured violence of On the Run catch us up quickly--and the film becomes a searing portrait of a killer-idealist lost out of time. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
The third film, After the Life, much like "On the Run," mixes a hard-edged, relentless and stripped-down crime tale with a compassionate overview. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
The Russian film The Return is a stunning contemporary fable about a divided family in the wilderness - a simple, riveting film that almost achieves greatness. -
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Gene Siskel 100
Filmed in black-and-white and shockingly well acted by De Niro, Raging Bull suggests that if you are looking for the source of evil in the world, you don't have to look any further than yourself. It's inside you or it isn't. And it comes out or it doesn't. [19 Dec 1980] -
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Gene Siskel 100
What distinguishes The Deer Hunter most is its many rich characters and the size of its vision. This is a big film, dealing with big issues, made on a grand scale. Much of it, including some casting decisions, suggest inspiration by "The Godfather." [9 Mar 1979] -
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Gene Siskel 100
An adventure film that plays like an old-time 12-part serial that you see all at once, instead of Saturday-to-Saturday. It's a modern "Thief of Baghdad." It's the kind of movie that first got you excited about movies when you were a kid. (Translation for today's children: It's better than anything on TV.) [12 June 1981] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
The story is engrossing, full of thrills and humor, the period re-creation wondrous and the pace intoxicatingly brisk. And the actors are all so good and their parts so well-written that we're engaged emotionally as well. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
In a league with Hollywood's top historical epics, ancient or otherwise. It's stunningly handsome film, with an equally stunning cast and engrossing story. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
If the uncut Fanny and Alexander is Bergman's greatest work, as I think, it's because it's his most inclusive. He shows almost everything: all his moods, conflicts, styles and many of his favorite actors. -
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Gene Siskel 100
It balances bloodshed with charm, spectacle with childlike glee. It's a near flawless movie of its kind. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A masterpiece of wry violence and stylized mayhem, The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi turns loose one of Japan's most brilliant film auteurs, Takeshi Kitano, on one of its most enduring pop legends. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
This movie, the subject of controversy, is a defiantly personal statement on what the war really is--laced with that now-familiar "Roger and Me" mix of homespun wit, pop culture playfulness, populist heart twisting and "gotcha" guerilla film-making tactics. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
This is a romance with minimal physical contact and sex--and that's part of what makes it work so well as a love story. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Sumptuous and beautiful, suffused with a serene melancholy and deeply ambivalent love for a long-vanished past, Luchino Visconti's 1963 The Leopard is one of the greatest of all historical costume epics. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Swooningly beautiful, furious and thrilling, Zhang Yimou's Hero is an action movie for the ages. -
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Allison Benedikt 100
There isn't a bad performance here, but besides Thornton, Luke stands out. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Among its many excellences, Vera Drake functions superbly as a pure thriller; the last half is reminiscent in structure and detail of Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man." -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A beautiful picture with a great heart, a classic-to-be with a common touch. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A boisterous, brilliant, heart-warming comedy--strikes me as just about perfect. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A fit tribute to an entertainer who, no matter what hate or hardship threw in his way or how many mistakes he made, we can't stop loving. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
It's a magical film which manages to transport and rivet us in the same highly-imaginitive, breezily playful way "Amelie" did. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Sometimes cinema's highest achievements become clear only in retrospect. Days of Being Wild--now clearly revealed as one of the peaks of Hong Kong filmmaking and a masterwork of contemporary cinema giant Wong. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Though it's a sad, somber, deeply questioning work, it's done with a light, loving spirit. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
It's as thrilling and lushly beautiful a movie as has been released all year, matched only by Zhang's epic "Hero." And I think this film is the more powerful. -
