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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Positive: 789 out of 1456
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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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David Edelstein 80
That title would suit a melodrama with an emphasis on doomed love, which is not what Loach has crafted. There is a (chaste) love story and plenty of bloodletting. But what engages him and his screenwriter, Paul Laverty, is the growing tension between brother Irish rebels. -
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Ken Tucker 70
If only Knightley had a co-star equal to her here: The 1995 edition of Colin Firth, come to think of it, would have been perfect. -
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Peter Rainer 70
Parts of this film are as blandly lulling as a mood tape, but at best it’s a literally soaring experience. -
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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 60
I realize that Fosse's dark sizzle might seem a bit dated today, but surely something halfway snazzy could have been devised for this movie. It's toothless. -
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David Edelstein 90
The movie is a political remake of "The Passion of the Christ," only more aestheticized: It's rigorous, evocative, and, in spite of its grisly imagery, elegant. It's a triumph--of masochistic literal-mindedness. -
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David Edelstein 90
Among the most enraging (documentaries) I've ever seen, and while it's fine and heartfelt and I commend it to those of you with strong constitutions, it is the film that has finally broken me. -
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David Edelstein 70
The documentary is solid as … as … an anvil. And if you can forget Spinal Tap (hard), it's also rather touching the way these 50-year-olds still have the forged-in-fire fortitude. -
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Peter Rainer 100
The most powerfully entrancing children's film in years. Of course, a true kid's classic is just as magical for adults. -
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David Edelstein 80
It's a genuine genre vampire picture; and it's Swedish, winter-lit, Bergmanesque. -
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David Edelstein 80
It’s the equal of "No End in Sight" in its tight focus on the nuts and bolts of incompetence, and it surpasses any recent melodrama in the empathy it evokes for both its victims and--surprisingly--victimizers. -
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David Edelstein 30
Chill to the core, Haneke presents human cruelty not to make us empathize with the victims or understand the oppressors but to rub our noses in the crimes of our species. He thinks he’s held on to the subversive ideals of punk, but all I smell is skunk. -
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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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Peter Rainer 90
Free speech isn't merely a shibboleth in The Agronomist. As embodied by Dominique, it's a fire-breathing force. -
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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 90
Indigènes is a stupendous work--and why that new title stinks to heaven. -
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Peter Rainer 60
Devos is especially fine as a woman whose inner solitude carries depth charges. -
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Peter Rainer 80
The hurt and rage flying back and forth have primal power, like Russian-flavored Eugene O'Neill. It's rare for a movie to work as effectively as this one does on such parallel tracks. -
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David Edelstein 50
The novelty wears off and the lack of imagination, visual and otherwise, turns into a drag. The Dark Knight is noisy, jumbled, and sadistic. -
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David Edelstein 90
In Mysteries of Lisbon, the prolific Chilean-born director and egghead Raúl Ruiz has achieved something remarkable, at once avant-garde and middlebrow: the apotheosis of the soap opera.- Posted Aug 1, 2011
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David Edelstein 70
All in all, Frozen River is gripping stuff. Except it's also rigged and cheaply manipulative. -
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Peter Rainer 100
So intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics. -
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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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David Edelstein 80
At its midpoint, the film could go either way: toward "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" psychosis or something more hopeful and humanistic. It’s a testament to Saavedra’s tough performance that even with a happy ending, you wouldn’t want to leave her with your kids. -
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David Edelstein 70
It’s engrossing, and Mueller-Stahl’s mix of Old World chivalry and murderousness is scarier than Jason and Freddy combined. -
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Ken Tucker 80
I'd like to hear from some women about the sole scene I didn't buy--Bello getting angry, then super-turned-on when she learns about her calm Tom's tough-guy origins--but otherwise, A History of Violence is a remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy. -
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Peter Rainer 40
Lynch needs to renew himself with an influx of the deep feeling he has for people, for outcasts, and lay off the cretins and hobgoblins and zombies for a while. Mulholland Drive is the product of David Lynch, Inc. -
