For 4,809 reviews, this publication has graded:
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2% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 65
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Positive: 2,903 out of 4809
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Mixed: 1,357 out of 4809
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Negative: 549 out of 4809
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The triumph of ''Spring, Summer'' is that even those of us who don't happen to be Buddhists can catch a glimpse of ourselves in the spinning wheel of hope, destruction, suffering, and bliss. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Afterward, you'll want to listen to the Beatles sing ''She's Leaving Home.'' It might be a girl like Jenny the lads had in mind. -
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Owen Gleiberman 83
A puzzle of a highly rarefied order. At times it's enthrallingly clever and subtle; at others it's borderline incomprehensible.- Posted Dec 7, 2011
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Half Nelson offers an opportunity to marvel, once again, at the dazzling talent of Ryan Gosling for playing young men as believable as they are psychologically trip-wired. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Mezzogiorno (Love in the Time of Cholera) plays Dalser with the kind of fervent intensity once seen in silent films. -
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Owen Gleiberman 83
Wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The power of this great movie -- part comedy, part tragedy, part satire, mostly masterpiece -- is in the details. -
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Owen Gleiberman 83
Young, wizened yet valiant, his voice still braying at the moon, delivers these songs of aging and loss as if caught in a beautiful dream of what lies waiting for him on the other side. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
This story of a 12-year-old boy who drops through the net of middle-class life invites us-in each shimmering frame-to gaze upon the world with a child's freshly awakening vision.- Posted Feb 7, 2013
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Mitchell directs and stars in the riotous, loving, and only occasionally pathos-milking film adaptation of his own acclaimed Off Broadway play, with great up-your-ante music and lyrics by Stephen Trask. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Writer-director Jeff Nichols builds his elegantly shot, weather-sensitive horror story in waves of tension that crest as if pulled by tempests.- Posted Sep 28, 2011
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Owen Gleiberman 67
An insider nostalgia trip for graying art punks. It could have been called ''When We Were Cool,'' and it's finally so cool that it freezes you out. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
At times, The Iron Giant is more serene than it needs to be, but it's a lovely and touching daydream. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 75
In the end -- an ending of such power and narrative originality (in both book and movie) that those who know it ought never breathe a word to those who don't. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Bong Joon-ho's wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 83
Although In the Mood for Love isn't in the mood for action, it dazzles with everything but. -
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Owen Gleiberman 83
Lopez, for all her Latina-siren voluptuousness, has always projected a contained coolness, and this is the first movie in which it fully works for her. -
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Owen Gleiberman 67
It's doubtful you'll ever see a combat documentary that channels the chaos of war as thoroughly as this one. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 83
Malick clings to the promise of grace: His vision of the afterlife is a dreamy beach, enhanced by an excellent playlist of fine classical music, and promising the peace that surpasses all understanding. Plus a beautiful sky.- Posted May 25, 2011
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Temperamentally in sync with her "Wendy and Lucy" director, Michelle Williams plays one of the toiling wives. And the actress, with her calm center, compresses the entire history of frontier wifeliness into the concentration with which she gathers firewood and loads a musket.- Posted Apr 13, 2011
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Circles the heart of noisy, modern Tehran with an informal, documentary-like freedom that is thrilling in its naturalism. -
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Bruce Fretts 75
Carpenter's brutally efficient exercise in tension and release. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
An exhilarating puzzle, one of the grand cinematic eruptions of the year.- Posted Oct 24, 2012
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Owen Gleiberman 91
It's a beautiful contraption of a movie, a gothic backwoods fable that uses its naive yet murderous hero to walk a fine line between sentimentality and dread. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
In the Shadow of the Moon finds new resonance in the moment when America redefined progress -- but also when it heeded the siren song of a world so desolate it reminded you what a paradise ours truly is. -
