For 1,453 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 63
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Positive: 787 out of 1453
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Mixed: 538 out of 1453
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Negative: 128 out of 1453
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David Edelstein 80
His palette here is deep-toned, with bottomless blacks and supersaturated oranges and blues--as if the Walt Disney of "Pinocchio" had collaborated with Goya. -
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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 100
Bird clearly knows the great silent clowns: The slapstick he devises is balletic. -
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David Edelstein 60
It's an entertainingly cynical small movie. Aaron Sorkin's dialogue tumbles out so fast it's as if the characters want their brains to keep pace with their processors; they talk like they keyboard, like Fincher directs, with no time for niceties. -
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David Edelstein 100
As a moral statement, Zero Dark Thirty is borderline fascistic. As a piece of cinema, it's phenomenally gripping - an unholy masterwork.- Posted Dec 10, 2012
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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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Peter Rainer 100
The most deeply and mysteriously satisfying animated feature to come along in ages. -
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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 100
The new Pixar picture Wall-E is one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world. -
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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 100
Jackson is rare among the makers of epic movies in that he knows how to do the small stuff, too. The Return of the King has “heart”--how else could it pump out all that blood? -
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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 100
Something sacred passes between Trintignant and Riva. The actress's eyes signal deep awareness as the sounds coming out of her mouth become animalistic.- Posted Dec 18, 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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David Edelstein 100
The film is a masterpiece in which “locked-in” syndrome becomes the human condition. -
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David Edelstein 100
Cantet's real-time classroom scenes are revelations: They make you understand that teaching is moment to moment, an endless series of negotiations that hang on intangibles—on imagination and empathy and the struggle to stay centered. This is a remarkable movie. -
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David Edelstein 100
Anderson’s fearless, bighearted filmmaking is an antidote to the toxic cloud of Manifest Destiny. He has made a mad American classic. -
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Peter Rainer 80
Smashing for much of the way; as a piece of fantasy moviemaking, franchise-style, it beats the bejesus out of "Harry Potter." -
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David Edelstein 100
For grown-ups, the film will touch something deeper: the heartfelt wish that childhood memories will never fade. -
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Peter Rainer 80
At times it's plodding and inchoate, but there's certainly nothing else like it in the movies right now, and it has at least one great sequence. -
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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 100
The most joyously cinematic movie I've seen this year. Chomet's astonishing imagination conjures images you could swear you've seen in your dreams. -
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David Edelstein 100
The Queen is the most reverent irreverent comedy imaginable. Or maybe it's the most irreverent reverent comedy. Either way, it's a small masterpiece. -
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David Edelstein 100
It has taken an animated film to go where live-action dramas and even documentaries haven't--to tickle our synapses and slip into our bloodstream. -
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David Edelstein 80
The Gatekeepers doesn't play like agitprop. The storytelling is strong, the images stark. The camera roams among multiple monitors showing multiple satellite views while an ambient score works on your nerves.- Posted Jan 28, 2013
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David Edelstein 70
Rahim is an exciting, unpredictable presence, and Arestrup’s César has a stature that’s nearly Shakespearean. -
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David Edelstein 100
For all the horror, it's the drive toward life, not the decay, that lingers in the mind. As a modern heroine, Ree Dolly has no peer, and Winter's Bone is the year's most stirring film. -
