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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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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. -
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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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David Edelstein 90
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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David Edelstein 90
Arnold's first feature, "Red Road" (2006), centers on another outsider, a woman who monitors security cameras. The film is formally brilliant, but it doesn't have the breathtaking openness of Fish Tank. -
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David Edelstein 90
The movie, a near-masterpiece, is a monument to intoxication: of sexual conquest, of military conquest, and, most of all, of cinema. -
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David Edelstein 90
The film is a nearly unrelenting nightmare. Even interviews shot with the survivors after the fact have a current of dread. -
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David Edelstein 90
It becomes a meditation on the dual nature of film, on a "reality" at once true and false, essential and tainted. -
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David Edelstein 90
This is one of the most galvanizing documentaries I've ever seen. -
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David Edelstein 90
As he proved in his Iraq-centered "No End in Sight," policy wonk turned documentarian Charles Ferguson has no peer when it comes to tracking the course of a preventable catastrophe. -
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David Edelstein 90
Shot by shot, scene by scene, it's a fluid and enthralling piece of work. I wasn't bored for a millisecond. -
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David Edelstein 90
Blessed is the go-for-it movie that can make room for dissonances and weirdness.- Posted Mar 7, 2011
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David Edelstein 90
The movie doesn't quite jell, but you'll feel its sting for hours.- Posted Apr 19, 2011
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David Edelstein 90
This supernatural comedy isn't just Allen's best film in more than a decade; it's the only one that manages to rise above its tidy parable structure and be easy, graceful, and glancingly funny, as if buoyed by its befuddled hero's enchantment.- Posted May 16, 2011
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David Edelstein 90
Mike Mills's marvelously inventive romantic comedy Beginners is pickled in sadness, loss, and the belief that humans (especially when they mate) are stunted by their parents' buried secrets, their own genetic makeup, and our sometimes-sociopathic social norms.- Posted May 30, 2011
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David Edelstein 90
Meehl, in her directing debut, is attuned to the rhythms of Buck, who's attuned to the horses.- Posted Jun 20, 2011
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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 90
Nichols has a genius for making landscapes and everyday objects resonate like crazy, for nailing the texture of dread.- Posted Sep 26, 2011
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David Edelstein 90
Fiennes and Logan haven't made a definitive Coriolanus, but they've made a sensationally gripping one. They have the pulse of the play, its firm martial beats and its messy political clatter. They tell a damn good story.- Posted Nov 28, 2011
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David Edelstein 90
What makes it so good is that no one is bad. These humans, desperate to do right, are caught up in a perfect storm of inhumanity. The evil is in the ecosystem.- Posted Jan 7, 2012
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David Edelstein 90
In totalitarian societies, artists have found all sorts of ways - some brilliantly imaginative - to disguise their political protest, but Panahi has no subterfuges left. This Is Not a Film ends with a whimper that is a bang. He must be freed.- Posted Feb 27, 2012
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David Edelstein 90
You could never call Solondz a humanist, but he achieves something I've never seen elsewhere: compassionate revulsion.- Posted Jun 11, 2012
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Critic Score 90
Jarecki puts the veteran actor to brilliant use in the insanely gripping Arbitrage.- Posted Sep 13, 2012
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David Edelstein 90
No actor is as brilliant, or as cunning, as Denzel Washington at portraying superhuman coolness and the scary prospect of its loss.- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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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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David Edelstein 90
So Polley has gone meta — exuberantly, entertainingly, with all her heart.- Posted May 5, 2013
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