For 1,456 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 1456
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Mixed: 538 out of 1456
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Negative: 129 out of 1456
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Peter Rainer 90
Moodysson captures exactly the preening narcissism and gumption of these frazzled would-be revolutionaries trying to wriggle out of their bourgeois straitjackets. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Linklater must have recognized a kindred spirit when he read Belber's play. He's given us a reality-fantasy game, a psychodrama, a harangue, and a detective story all rolled into one. -
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Peter Rainer 90
The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier's "Going Places." -
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Peter Rainer 90
The Pinochet Case is a searing album of remembrance from those who, having survived, suffered most. -
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Peter Rainer 90
A movie that really zips along; it offers some of the same pleasures as the silent slapstick comedies, particularly the Keaton films, with their sense of how sheer velocity carries its own wit. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Sophisticated and nuanced, and every character is bursting with emotional contradictions. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Belzberg doesn't intervene during the moments of violence, believing that the film can force social change only by showing the worst. If she is correct, then this film should move mountains. -
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Peter Rainer 90
At its best, the film compares favorably to its obvious antecedents, "Rififi" (which Melville once hoped to direct) and "The Asphalt Jungle." -
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Peter Rainer 90
What it's really about is the euphoria that talent can bring to those who are possessed by it. That euphoria lights up the screen. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Beautifully directed by Phillip Noyce, the film -- is a full experience, a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence. -
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Peter Rainer 90
The script, instead of being what we tolerate in order to savor the visuals, is a delight all by itself. -
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Peter Rainer 90
A first-rate zombie movie. The best tribute I can offer is that it makes you want to go out directly afterward and down some expensive single-malt scotch. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Spellbindingly original -- Like the wild orchid, Adaptation is a marvel of adaptation, entwined with its hothouse environment and yet stunningly unique. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Achingly funny movie...Guest has cultivated a stock company of players whose work together is so intuitively sharp that it seems to redefine the boundaries of acting. -
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Critic Score 90
Andrew Davis, the director of "The Fugitive," one of the best thrillers of recent years, has added pace and heat and explicit sexuality to the material without whipping up phony excitement. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Coppola both wrote and directed, and there’s a pleasing shapelessness to her scenes. She accomplishes the difficult feat of showing people being bored out of their skulls in such a way that we are never bored watching them. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Linklater, whose previous movies include "Slacker," "Before Sunrise," and "Waking Life," may be the most versatile director of his generation. School of Rock is his most unabashedly mainstream movie by far, and yet it’s commercial in the best way. -
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Peter Rainer 90
The jamboree is beautifully shot and directed, by Chris Menges and David Leland respectively, and there is a haunting touch: the presence of George’s son, Dhani, on guitar, looking near-identical to his dad in his twenties. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Sean Penn is so frighteningly good in this movie that he outdoes even the best of his earlier work. -
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Peter Rainer 90
It’s a magical little movie about a most unmagical subject. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Tsunashima gives a deft performance in a role that starts out as caricature but becomes full-bodied. Collette commands the screen virtually the entire time. -
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Peter Rainer 90
What reveals Pontecorvo as an artist, and not simply a propagandist of genius, is the sorrow he tries to stifle but that comes flooding through anyway--the sense that ALL sides in this conflict have lost their souls, and that all men are carrion. -
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Peter Rainer 90
As a piece of inspirationalism about human stamina, Touching the Void is peerless, but what it doesn't--perhaps can't--explain is why people place themselves in such peril. -
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Critic Score 90
Antz, with its deadpan witticisms, its heart-stopping shifts of perspective, is completely entertaining, a kids' movie that will leave grown-ups quoting the best lines to one another. -
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Critic Score 90
The movie is a volatile combination of ambitious mythmaking and nasty reality, and like most of Spike Lee’s work, it is also an inextricable combination of good and bad. -
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Writer-director Richard Kwietniowski has never made a feature before, but this debut effort is a triumph, a buoyant and elegant achievement -- romantic and ruminative yet always precise, a comedy of longing propelled by a strong current of satirical observation. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Kim exalts nature--life’s passage--without stooping to sentimentality. He sees the tooth and claw, and he sees the transcendence. Whether this is a Buddhist attribute, I cannot say, but the impression this movie leaves is profound: Here is an artist who sees things whole. -
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Peter Rainer 90
Free speech isn't merely a shibboleth in The Agronomist. As embodied by Dominique, it's a fire-breathing force. -
