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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Average Movie review score: 65
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Positive: 2,814 out of 4198
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Mixed: 807 out of 4198
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Negative: 577 out of 4198
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movie reviews
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Michael Wilmington 100
This is the Paris -- and the mad, beautiful young Parisienne -- we look for in dreams. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A great movie on a powerful, essential subject -- the Holocaust years in Poland -- directed with such artistry and skill that, as we watch, the barriers of the screen seem to melt away. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Magnificent to look at, thrilling, ingenious, spellbinding and superbly done on every level, this is not just one of the best films of the year or the decade, but of all time. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
The film is truly special, truly different -- a wondrous talky roundelay about and for people who love life. -
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Gene Siskel 100
There is only one problem with the excitement generated by this film. After it is over, you will walk out of the theater and, as I did, curse the tedium of your own life. I kept looking for someone who I could throw up against a wall. [8 November 1971] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Always a magical film. For its anniversary rerelease, though, it's been extensively restored and even partly reshot by Spielberg. It now looks better than it did back then. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Like all the Coens' movies, "Man" is supremely self-aware and darkly, hellishly funny. It's also brilliantly written and acted to a fare-thee-well by an outrageously good cast. -
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Gene Siskel 100
A brash romantic comedy that has a serious purpose at its core. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
One of the most curious and perversely brilliant films ever made in the American studio system. It's a shining example of qualities we don't normally see in our big theatrical pictures: vast ambition, huge resources and technical genius mated to a unique and compelling vision of life. -
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Critic Score 100
You can't ask for a family film to do more than Toy Story 2. It's smart and playful enough to entertain adults, yet it never aims above the heads of kids. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Blends a love of semi-trashy pop entertainment with a love of poetry, art and high moral seriousness. It's a young person's movie (Godard was 34 and Karina 24 in 1964) that retains its mysterious pull even as the film and we get older. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Few Hollywood action pictures are half as exciting or ravishing. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
No matter how many heists you've seen, how many gangs you've watched fall apart or how many aging crooks you've seen walk up a mean street to a violent destiny, Rififi never loses its ruthless grace and force. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Another masterpiece from one of the world's more neglected great directors, a master artist who here reveals the soul of another. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A hard-core movie with a soft, light-hearted center and an edge like a knife. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A great love story and a deeply moving celebration of simple lives. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Some scholars may scowl, some lowbrows may scoff. But, like wordwise Will, these filmmakers know how to win a crowd -- from the queen down to the groundlings, from the sky above to the stage below. Bravo! [5 December 1998, Friday, p.A] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Loach is a super-realist, and Sweet Sixteen has the disarming feel of a documentary. It's a film that miraculously catches life on the fly, without apparent embellishment, cliche or melodrama. -
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Gene Siskel 100
The fans of their best work -- "Blood Simple, "Raising Arizona," "Barton Fink" -- now can add Fargo to the list, pushing the Coens to the first rank of contemporary American filmmakers. [8 March 1996, Friday, p.B] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
You may not like Beau Travail - which is, after all, a quintessential "critic's film" - but I think you'll have to admit it's been almost perfectly executed. -
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Gene Siskel 100
Sarandon delivers one of her very best performances; her shock at encountering the wrath of the victim's family is registered beautifully. And Sean Penn, who for too long has suffered with the label of being a "bad boy," gives an Oscar-caliber performance.[12 January 1996, Friday, p.B] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A great, haunting film; it affects us in ways we're not used to...it is capable of both lifting our hearts and chilling us to the bone. -
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Mark Caro 100
Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
This is a superb film and one of Nicholson's great performances, tamped down but magnetic. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
It put a smile on my face that never left for 117 minutes. -
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Gene Siskel 100
More than a great love story. It's both a lighthearted and deeply impassioned inspirational lesson about life. [4 April 1986] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Trashy and glorious, the restored Metropolis is a pop epic for the ages. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A film that sweeps us away into a world of spectacle, beauty and excitement, a realm of fantasy unimaginable without the movies. -
