Dallas Observer's Scores
- Movies
For 1,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
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3% same as the average critic
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50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 662 out of 1519
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Mixed: 617 out of 1519
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Negative: 240 out of 1519
1,519
movie reviews
- By critic score
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Bill Gallo 90
Karen Moncrieff makes an extraordinary debut as a feature film writer and director with this observant drama about a budding teenage poet who, amid many traumas, finds the courage to become herself and set out as an artist. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 90
A delicious little thriller about an uptight, ill-humored English mystery writer who becomes enmeshed in murder, Swimming Pool is at once comical, contrary, resourceful and ambiguous. -
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Bill Gallo 90
This uncommonly clever, surprisingly poignant fairy tale packs a social wallop that we're not quite prepared for. -
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Bill Gallo 90
It takes an especially fine-tuned director and an inventive actor to cut as close to the bone as Spider does. -
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Melissa Levine 90
Fast-paced, riveting and affecting. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 90
It is that rare find: a film that is as emotionally truthful as it is satisfying. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 90
An animated extravaganza of Gallic wit and soul that delivers more wild humanity than many of the year's live-action features. In a word: go. -
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Robert Wilonsky 90
As surreal as it is obscene, as clever as it is crude. It plays like some raw offspring of underground comix and the comedies of the 1920s. -
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Bill Gallo 90
In the end, what Minghella has wrought is a nearly perfect drama of love and war (still the great subjects, after all), an epic that's fluent, frightening and beautiful all at once, that lifts the heart and dashes our dreams in about equal measure. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 90
This is a powerhouse of a film, but not for the obvious reasons that it's about a female serial killer, scampering lesbians and whatever. The project's strength instead emerges from a sense of nobility and purpose in honoring its characters. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 90
This astonishingly gritty film maintains its strong niche between Roberto Rossellini's "Open City" and Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday" as a pinnacle of war-torn neo-realist drama. -
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Bill Gallo 90
One of Void's great strengths is that it doesn't say much about "voids." It simply shows us, in incredibly vivid detail, heart-stopping danger and the raw will to survive. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 90
This is a brilliant and unpretentious movie to raise the bar for contemporary popular entertainment, designed for the upper-tier thinkers at the multiplex. -
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Critic Score 90
The movie has tremendous scope and charge and a dense period fabric, along with a volcanic performance by Djimon Hounsou, the West African actor who plays Cinque. -
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Peter Rainer 90
The work of an obsessive who has developed a light touch--though some of his more outright themes and pronouncements can be heavy-going. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 90
This may sound an eensy bit hyperbolic, but dig: Mayor of the Sunset Strip is the greatest rock-and-roll movie of all time. -
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Luke Y. Thompson 90
The original retains its dark tone and deadly serious anti-war message. For today's moviegoing audiences, this may not be your daddy's Godzilla movie, but chances are your granddaddy could teach you a thing or two about the context. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 90
This roaring crowd-pleaser also boasts hilarious bits of business, insightful observations into the human condition, and geysers of kitschy computer-generated blood. -
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Melissa Levine 90
It's charming. It's hilarious. It is perhaps the most beautifully crafted, lovingly rendered portrait of extreme geekitude ever to grace the screen. It's Napoleon Dynamite. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 90
Pure joy to watch -- and an invaluable documentary record of a bygone era. -
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Andy Klein 90
Pecker is a satire, but an incredibly good-natured one, which is not quite the contradiction in terms it might seem. -
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Robert Wilonsky 90
That he (Hetfield), and his band, still lives is astonishing enough; that you get to see how and why in a movie so painfully intimate is nothing short of extraordinary. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 90
Fry establishes himself as an inspired, world-class talent behind the camera and delivers my favorite film of the year thus far. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 90
The acting is remarkable across the board, undoubtedly a combination of a strong script, gifted actors and exceptional direction. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 90
Provides a smart, insightful prologue to the career of the man who continues to inspire countless people around the world. -
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Critic Score 90
Even when Conspiracy Theory is jammed or rushed or overly jittery, Gibson's command--of Jerry's fractured psyche, his freak perceptions, and his ardor--gives the picture blue-eyed soul. -
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Melissa Levine 90
Vera Drake is so patient, assiduous and attentive to emotional accuracy that it betrays the utter sloth of most of what we see when we go to the movies. -
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Luke Y. Thompson 90
Bottom line: It's hilarious, vicious, offensive, thoroughly profane and a joy to watch, just like you'd expect. Be sure to sit through the end credits for a bonus song from Kim Jong-il to Alec Baldwin. -
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Melissa Levine 90
For the most part, Sideways is a great movie--impeccably written, directed and acted--that takes its characters on a journey toward something new. -
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Critic Score 90
Director Barry Levinson has given this swift, sure-footed film a matter-of-fact, improvisational look and feel. To appreciate its brisk, confident, wild comedy, all you need is a funny bone and a BS meter. -
