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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David Edelstein 90
The coup de grâce is especially graceless because everything we know is already visible in Marinca’s eyes. The actress is extraordinary. -
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David Edelstein 90
Paranoid Park is a supernaturally perfect fusion of Van Sant’s current conceptual-art-project head-trip aesthetic and Blake Nelson’s finely tuned first-person “young adult” novel. -
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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 90
Loyal assistant, Pepper Potts, isn't much of a part, but Gwyneth Paltrow is a presence. She stands around looking amused and flabbergastingly pretty, slinging wisecracks with serene aplomb. -
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David Edelstein 90
The Edge of Heaven is powerfully unsettled--it comes together by not coming together. -
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David Edelstein 90
It takes about an hour after it's over for the heart to slow, the brain to recalibrate, and the nonsensicalness of the thing to sink in. -
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David Edelstein 90
Chris & Don is the rarest of documentaries: a realistic portrait of the human spirit. -
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David Edelstein 90
It was splendid! No, it’s not a larky kid-pic. We're firmly in the realm of English horror. -
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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 90
Is A Christmas Tale a masterpiece? Maybe. I have to play with it longer. It's certainly Desplechin's most accessible film, in part because its dysfunctional-family-holiday-reunion genre is so comfy and its palette so warm. -
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David Edelstein 90
The film is lyrical, expansive, unbearably beautiful. -
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David Edelstein 90
The ensemble is stupendous--howlingly great--and the music goes deep. -
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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
Doubt is still overpowering; it took me a while when it was over to stop shaking. It's the dramatist’s business to sow doubt, to set down points of view that can't be reconciled, and Shanley makes visceral the notion that one can be right but never absolutely right, that doubt might be our last, best hope. -
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David Edelstein 90
There isn't a banal moment in Winslet's performance--not a gesture, not a word. Is Winslet now the best English-speaking film actress of her generation? I think so. -
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David Edelstein 90
By all means, see Up in its 3-D incarnation: The cliff drops are vertiginous, and the scores of balloons--bunched into the shape of one giant balloon--are as pluckable as grapes. -
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David Edelstein 90
Troell’s entrancingly beautiful Everlasting Moments uses surfaces--light, texture, faces--to hint at another world, a shadow realm. -
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David Edelstein 90
Like his protagonist, Bahrani never gives up on William; his camera never stops probing. He loves West's face, and he honors its mystery. -
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David Edelstein 90
Observe and Report is the rare "action-comedy" (almost always a muddled hybrid) that earns its cathartic climax. The blood is real because the psychosis is real. But somehow--the magic of comedy--it's also uproarious. -
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David Edelstein 90
No filmmaker I know has gotten as close to a professional athlete as James Toback gets to Mike Tyson in his new documentary. -
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David Edelstein 90
The Hurt Locker might be the first Iraq-set film to break through to a mass audience because it doesn't lead with the paralysis of the guilt-ridden Yank. The horror is there, but under the rush. -
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David Edelstein 90
Séraphine is one of the most evocative films about an artist I've ever seen--and in its treatment of madness one of the least condescending. -
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David Edelstein 90
Sheridan’s actors work with their intellects fully engaged--and they engage us on levels we barely knew we had. -
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David Edelstein 90
A Serious Man is not only hauntingly original, it’s the final piece of the puzzle that is the Coens. Combine suburban alienation, philosophical inquiry, moral seriousness, a mixture of respect for and utter indifference to Torah, and, finally, a ton of dope, and you get one of the most remarkable oeuvres in modern film. -
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Up in the Air is poised to be a smash, and Clooney--slim, dark, perfectly tailored--glamorizes insincerity in a way that makes you want to go out and lie. -
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