For 4,805 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 3.6 points higher than other critics.
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Mixed: 1,357 out of 4805
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Crowe, staying close to his memories, has gotten it, for perhaps the first time, onto the screen. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
American Splendor presents Pekar as drawn on the page, Pekar as brilliantly interpreted by Paul Giamatti, and the actual Pekar, in the double role of narrator and interview subject -- sometimes all at once. The magic act is thrilling, and truly surprising. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Pulling the bandage of sentiment cleanly away from oozing concepts like ''heroism'' and ''our nation's war on terror'' in the aftermath of recent wounds, here's a drama about the most politically charged crisis of our time that grants the dignity of autonomy to every soul involved. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A beautifully sinister and transfixing entertainment-age daydream. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
An extraordinary film; it may be the most haunting documentary since ''Crumb.'' -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The Passenger isn't finally the masterpiece some have made it out to be, but it retains a singular intrigue: It's the first, and probably the last, thriller ever made about depression. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity, and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema. -
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Critic Score 83
Surprisingly, given Lee's penchant for experimentation, there's nothing remotely innovative about this sober, often intensely moving exploration of a community's lingering grief and outrage -- just the usual talking heads, stock footage, montages of stills, and such. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
An outrageously gorgeous spectacle of balletic aggression. At the same time, it offers something we rarely encounter in a whirling martial-arts extravaganza: a romantic passion that's woven into the very fabric of the action. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The gorgeous music includes Ralph Vaughan Williams' wafting tone poem ''The Lark Ascending'' -- apt in describing an artist who might well be part bird. -
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Owen Gleiberman 67
A film of droll and dry observational precision, its emotional minimalism is almost fetishistic -- and, by the end, a tad frustrating. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
When Baron Cohen works without a net, he flies. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Ferguson spotlights two massive mistakes: the looting that was allowed to continue, destroying Iraqi infrastructure and morale; and--far more revelatory -- the apocalyptically stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army, sending half a million angry soldiers into the streets. -
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Owen Gleiberman 83
The result is a playful, elusive movie that isn't so much heartwarming as soul-cleansing. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Facing a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the older woman enrolls in a poetry class, desperate to find the words to describe beauty before language fails her. She does even better: She herself becomes a kind of poem about what it means to really see the world.- Posted Feb 16, 2011
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Days after I saw The Artist, I was still thinking (and grinning) about it, because the movie's real romance is the one between us, the jaded 21st-century audience, and the mechanical innocence of old movies, which here becomes new again.- Posted Nov 23, 2011
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Owen Gleiberman 100
By the end, Campion views all her characters with a compassion bordering on grace, a humanity-like her heroine's-as dark, quiet, and enveloping as the ocean. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Clint Eastwood's profound, magisterial, and gripping companion piece to his ambitious meditation on wartime image and reality, "Flags of Our Fathers." -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Until Once, I'm not sure that I'd ever seen a small-scale, nonstylized, kitchen-sink drama in which the songs take on the majesty and devotion of a musical dream. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers in revolt. -
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Critic Score 100
One of those rare gems that prove equally stunning on both aesthetic and cerebral levels. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Capote honors its subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
If you see only one comic love story from Kazakhstan this year, choose this prize-winning honey. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Hersonski quietly and insistently unravels reality from "reality"; her commitment to archival authenticity is its own tribute to those no longer able to testify. -
