For 1,455 reviews, this publication has graded:
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Critic Score 80
The Dardennes' most accessible film. Their handheld camera catches tiny flickers of emotion that few filmmakers come near; you feel as if you're watching the movements of a soul. -
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David Edelstein 50
Gomorrah isn't memorable. The structure feels random, and the characters remain at arm's length. Next to HBO's "The Wire," which depicted an enormous financial ladder and also brought to life the characters on every rung, the movie is small potatoes: excellent journalism, so-so art. -
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Peter Rainer 50
More often McNamara comes across as Exhibit A in Morris's latest metaphysical creepshow. -
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David Edelstein 70
Uncle Boonmee is entrancing-and also, if you're not sufficiently steeped in its rhythms, narcotizing.- Posted Feb 28, 2011
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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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David Edelstein 70
Despite the simplicity of the brothers' technique, The Kid With a Bike has deep religious underpinnings, a relentless drive toward the mythos of death and resurrection. The film is not just in the tradition of Pinocchio and A.I.: It is a worthy successor.- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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David Edelstein 80
HPATDH 2 works like a charm. A funereal charm, to be sure, but then, there's no time left for larks.- Posted Jul 11, 2011
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Peter Rainer 80
By all odds, Tarnation should have been an unwatchable, masochistic morass, but Caouette's love for the broken Renee--which is the true subject of the film--is awe-inspiring. -
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David Edelstein 70
The movie doesn't quite come together, but it's full of smart, cynical talk, and it's very entertaining.- Posted Sep 19, 2011
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David Edelstein 80
Has a mixture of bloodletting and exultation that would make Sam Peckinpah sit up in his grave and howl with pleasure.- Posted May 2, 2011
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David Edelstein 90
Lincoln is too sharply focused to deserve the pejorative "biopic" label. It's splendid enough to make me wish Spielberg would make a "prequel" to this instead of another Indiana Jones picture.- Posted Nov 5, 2012
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Peter Rainer 80
The emotional honesty of this movie rescues it from sentimentality. To Be and to Have is about more than a dedicated teacher and his pupils; it’s about how difficult and exhilarating it is to grow into an adult. -
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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 80
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is sometimes frozen by Herzog's awe. But it's hard not to love him for always trying to look beyond the surface of things, to find a common chord in the landscape of dreams.- Posted Apr 25, 2011
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Peter Rainer 80
Field made a thriller about what we are capable of in the name of hatred -- and of love. -
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David Edelstein 80
One job of memoir is to show the world through another's eyes and inspire you to live more alertly, and that is the glory of The Beaches of Agnès. -
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Peter Rainer 80
It’s a hyper-aestheticized meditation on the meaning of history, visually astonishing, dramatically stilted. No masterpiece, but quite a feat (and quite effete). -
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David Edelstein 80
A marvel of cunning, an irresistible blend of cool realism and Hollywood hokum.- Posted Oct 8, 2012
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Peter Rainer 70
As with much of Soderbergh's avant-garde work, his garde isn't quite as avant as he would have us believe it is. Still, Soderbergh's jazzed stylistics can be smartly entertaining. Without them, an uneven movie like Traffic might seem more of a mélange than it already is. -
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Peter Rainer 60
Talk to Her affects some people very deeply, while others, like me, find it high-grade kitsch. -
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David Edelstein 80
If I seem cool, it might be because I came in hoping for the same level of blood-and-thunder as in the Evangelical scenes of "There Will Be Blood," whereas The Master is a cerebral experience. But Anderson has gone about exploring fundamental tensions in the American character with more discipline than I once thought him capable.- Posted Sep 8, 2012
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Peter Rainer 70
A prime piece of whirlybird filmmaking, and the technique saps what might have been a powerful experience. -
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David Edelstein 80
The movie works smashingly, especially if you haven't seen its Hong Kong counterpart and haven't a clue what's coming. But for all its snap, crackle, and pop, it's nowhere near as galvanic emotionally. -
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David Edelstein 80
Liam Neeson has gravely splendid pipes as Ponyo’s father, a once-human wizard who lives underwater and despises humankind for polluting the planet. -
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David Edelstein 50
I hope I'm not raining on Beasts of the Southern Wild's deluge to say it doesn't always live up to its pretensions. There's a lot of unshaped babble and draggy landscape shots, and the music, so lovely in small doses, is numbing when it's ladled over everything.- Posted Jul 1, 2012
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David Edelstein 90
In The Flight of the Red Balloon, the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao Hsien uses Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 masterpiece "The Red Balloon" as a springboard for his own masterpiece--a distinctively modern and allusive one, yet so tender and plaintive that you understand what Hou is up to on a preconscious level. -
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David Edelstein 70
It’s not just vérité--it’s battlefield vérité; it triggers your fight-or-flight instincts. -
