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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Score distribution:
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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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Peter Rainer 90
Most of the time we are with Cruise and Foxx, and their interplay is never less than galvanizing. -
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Peter Rainer 90
While making his new film, he (McElwee) imagines that his boy is looking back at his screen image from some distant point in the future, when McElwee himself is gone. No child of a moviemaker could ask for a more beautiful bequest. -
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Ken Tucker 90
When this long movie is over, all you want to do is clap and weep and watch it all over again immediately. -
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Ken Tucker 90
The result is an admirably bumpy ride of a biopic, a rare one that leaves you feeling not safe but bracingly unsettled. -
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Critic Score 90
Dedee is a great, entertaining caricature, an updated teen version of a forties-noir seductress and murderess -- Lana Turner without corsets... Ricci possesses a devastating way with a nasty line; she could curdle mother's milk from 30 paces. -
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Ken Tucker 90
In the best moments of Howl's Moving Castle and in his extraordinary body of work, Miyazaki teaches his viewers more valuable lessons. -
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Ken Tucker 90
Murray's performance is at once enormously generous and fiercely, concisely witty. -
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Ken Tucker 90
Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year's subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances. -
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Ken Tucker 90
A film that transcends its obvious timeliness to say some elemental things about personal loyalty and institutional betrayal. -
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Ken Tucker 90
The remarkable thing director Ang Lee has done is to have made a film that remains firmly in the Western genre while never retreating from its portrayal of a tragic love story. -
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Critic Score 90
Demme is in such perfect sync with Young's music that even the painted prairie backdrop (and the painted farmhouse interior screen, complete with hearth, that slides in front of it) only makes you roll your eyes in retrospect. -
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Critic Score 90
Sometimes you forget how great an actor is, then he or she is reborn in an Altman movie. -
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David Edelstein 90
The film is phenomenally well directed by Kevin Macdonald and edited by Justine Wright to bring out every bit of scary volatility in the most casual interactions. -
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David Edelstein 90
Ulrich Mühe gives a marvelously self-contained performance. There isn't an ounce of fat on his body, or in his acting: He has pared himself down to a pair of eyes that prowl the faces of his character's countrymen for signs of arrogance--i.e., of independent thinking. -
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David Edelstein 90
Indigènes is a stupendous work--and why that new title stinks to heaven. -
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David Edelstein 90
Anyone who loves live-wire acting will gasp in awe at Blanchett, more emotionally exposed than ever, and, most of all, at Dame Judi, who’s so electric she makes you quiver. -
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Critic Score 90
Live Flesh, the best movie from Almodóvar since that Iberian screwball classic "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." -
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David Edelstein 90
It's a Parisian romantic roundelay with sundry couples connecting and disconnecting, but it looks and sounds like no sex comedy ever made: It's transcendentally yummy. -
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David Edelstein 90
I’ve sat through so many claustrophobic examples of the genre I forgot how exhilarating, how pure a great one could be. Interview is a great one--electric as theater and cinema. -
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David Edelstein 90
Very entertaining (and doesn’t overstay its welcome) but it’s a little depressing to contemplate. -
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David Edelstein 90
I came out giddy, feeling lighter--by about five-sixths--than I did when I went in. -
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David Edelstein 90
Lake of Fire centers on abortion, but Kaye understands that while dead fetuses are the hook, the agenda covers the whole life cycle. -
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David Edelstein 90
His (Sidney Lumet) touch in Before the Devil is so sure, so perfectly weighted, that it’s hard to imagine him capable of making a bad movie. The thing is just enthralling. -
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David Edelstein 90
A brilliant study in the link between moral corruption and narcissism. -
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David Edelstein 90
The Savages is a delightful movie--the perfect companion piece (and antidote) to the year’s other superb convalescent-dementia picture, "Away From Her." -
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David Edelstein 90
Satrapi’s parents ship her off to a French school in Vienna, but she’s rudderless, ungrounded. She’s drawn back to a devastated Tehran, where she can’t design a life, either. This great film, by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, is that life, designed. It freed her mind; it frees ours. -
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David Edelstein 90
Burton, bless him, constricts the space and concentrates the melodrama; he finds the perfect balance between the funereal and the ferocious. Above all, he treasures these ghouls: He digs both their bloodlust and their melancholy. -
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David Edelstein 90
We’ve never sat through anything with Cloverfield’s subjective sting. You’d have to be tougher than I was not to be blown sideways by it. -
