For 1,455 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 63
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Positive: 789 out of 1455
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Mixed: 538 out of 1455
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Negative: 128 out of 1455
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David Edelstein 100
I've never seen a movie with this mixture of fullness and desolation. Rachel Getting Married is a masterpiece. -
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David Edelstein 100
Cantet's real-time classroom scenes are revelations: They make you understand that teaching is moment to moment, an endless series of negotiations that hang on intangibles—on imagination and empathy and the struggle to stay centered. This is a remarkable movie. -
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David Edelstein 100
It has taken an animated film to go where live-action dramas and even documentaries haven't--to tickle our synapses and slip into our bloodstream. -
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David Edelstein 100
Hats off to Olivier Assayas's plain yet hauntingly beautiful Summer Hours, a true--albeit nonsecular--meditation on art and eternal life. -
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David Edelstein 100
The end of The Cove is as rousing as anything from Hollywood. Manipulative? Sure--but isn't that fitting? Capitalism has driven an entire village to massacre dolphins and keep its work hidden. -
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David Edelstein 100
Pantheism, Cameronism: In Avatar, what's the diff? Now he's king of a world he made from scratch. -
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David Edelstein 100
For grown-ups, the film will touch something deeper: the heartfelt wish that childhood memories will never fade. -
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David Edelstein 100
For all the horror, it's the drive toward life, not the decay, that lingers in the mind. As a modern heroine, Ree Dolly has no peer, and Winter's Bone is the year's most stirring film. -
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David Edelstein 100
The self-satire of The Kids Are All Right is so knowing, so rich, so hilarious, so damn healthy that it blows all thoughts of degeneracy out of your head. -
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David Edelstein 100
This is, no doubt about it, a tour de force, a work that fully lives up to its director's ambitions.- Posted Dec 6, 2010
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David Edelstein 100
The vision is as hateful as it is hate-filled, but the fusion of form and content is so perfect that it borders on the sublime.- Posted Nov 7, 2011
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David Edelstein 100
Spielberg has been ridiculed for shooting his actors from below against impossibly Spielbergian skies and a denouement that lays the love on copiously. But there's nothing simpleminded about how he uses movie magic, as a spell to dispel nihilism, to save us from the worst of ourselves by summoning up the best.- Posted Dec 26, 2011
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David Edelstein 100
Everything he did in live-action movies with rolling boulders and runaway convoys he does bigger and better - by a factor of ten - in every frame. At the end of two hours, my jaw ached from grinning.- Posted Dec 26, 2011
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The Deep Blue Sea is not a showy or pronounced movie. Open yourself up to it, however, and it might destroy you.- Posted Mar 24, 2012
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Once the action starts - and it starts very quickly - The Raid is relentless, breathtaking in its sheer propulsive majesty. But it's also shot through with moments of bleak poetry amid the carnage.- Posted Mar 24, 2012
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David Edelstein 100
The Avengers is both campy and Âreverential. Comic-Con nerds will have multiple orgasms. I had a blast.- Posted Apr 30, 2012
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David Edelstein 100
Pi has designed his own terrarium to keep from staring directly into the abyss. It's not denial. It's faith in something else: the transformative power of storytelling. The film is transcendent.- Posted Nov 19, 2012
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David Edelstein 100
As a moral statement, Zero Dark Thirty is borderline fascistic. As a piece of cinema, it's phenomenally gripping - an unholy masterwork.- Posted Dec 10, 2012
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David Edelstein 100
Something sacred passes between Trintignant and Riva. The actress's eyes signal deep awareness as the sounds coming out of her mouth become animalistic.- Posted Dec 18, 2012
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Peter Rainer 90
What's remarkable is how often the photographer's subjects allow themselves to be caught on film; it's as if they understood implicitly that Nachtwey was there not only to agitate for reform but to memorialize their agony. He does both. -
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Peter Rainer 90
I've never seen another movie that so clearly expresses the sensual sustenance that great folk culture provides its practitioners. -
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Peter Rainer 90
It's an elliptical tragedy in which the fate of its characters takes on a larger significance while never losing its intimacy. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Michel Bouquet's performance makes Anne Fontaine's How I Killed My Father required viewing. -
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Peter Rainer 90
The lifelong friends in Fred Schepisi's marvelous Last Orders actually seem like lifelong friends. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Wiseman lets the material breathe in a manner unique to the subject. -
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Peter Rainer 90
It's a truly prodigious piece of work, resembling a career summation far more than a maiden voyage. -
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Peter Rainer 90
It would be a mistake to regard American Splendor as an anthem for the common man. It is the UNCOMMON that is being celebrated here. -
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Peter Rainer 90
A comedy in the best sense--it draws its life from the pitch-perfect authenticity of its characters. -
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