Newsweek's Scores
- Movies
For 875 reviews, this publication has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 562 out of 875
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Mixed: 246 out of 875
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Negative: 67 out of 875
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movie reviews
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David Ansen 90
Reveals a chilling reality: how hard it is to tell a simple truth when big business doesn't want it told. -
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David Ansen 90
It starts quietly, introducing its splendid gallery of fowl, rats and humans, then builds and builds until it achieves full comic liftoff. -
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David Ansen 90
Scherfig and her wonderful cast slyly transmute the quotidian into the magical. It’s like watching flowers bloom in a concrete garden. -
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David Ansen 90
Blackly funny, unafraid to shift emotional gears from farce to horror, peppered with spectacular action. -
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David Ansen 90
The beauty of this extremely clever movie, directed with fleet, robust theatricality by John Madden, is how deftly it manages to work on multiple levels. -
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David Ansen 90
The eroticism in Cuaron’s road movie (which broke all box-office records in Mexico) is the real deal: tactile, sexy, psychologically charged. -
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David Ansen 90
This is humanism in drag: Almodovar's passionate redefinition of family values. -
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David Ansen 90
This is Depp's coming-of-age role, and he's terrific. Pacino, who's shown more flash than substance recently, reminds us how great he can be when he loses himself inside a character. The bond between these two makes the film sing. -
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Critic Score 90
With her Doc Martens and her spiky, fire-engine hair, Franka Potente makes a perfect Lola. Like the film itself, her tough, flashy exterior cloaks a warm emotional center. -
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Critic Score 90
For diehard fans, X-Men is full of in jokes and sly references -- For everybody else, there's the thrill of the unknown. -
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David Ansen 90
The true allure of Titanic is its invitation to swoon at a scale of epic moviemaking that is all but obsolete. -
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David Ansen 90
Movie purists will tell you that a heavy reliance on voice-over is a sin (“show, don’t tell”), but when the words are this funny, to hell with purity. -
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David Ansen 90
Never less than engaging; all that’s missing is a proper crescendo. The picture moves along briskly, even at two and a half hours, but it seems to be running on cruise control. -
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Critic Score 90
Proyas floods the screen with cinematic and literary references ranging from Murnau and Lang to Kafka and Orwell, creating a unique yet utterly convincing world. -
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David Ansen 90
A stunning crime drama that shares its protagonists' rabid attention to detail—and love of adrenalin. -
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David Ansen 90
Anyone who cares about ravishing filmmaking, superb acting and movies willing to dive into the mystery of unconditional love will leave this dark romance both shaken and invigorated. -
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David Ansen 90
The result is fascinating -- a rich, strange, problematical movie full of wild tonal shifts and bravura moviemaking. -
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David Ansen 90
Ferociously intense, furiously kinetic, it’s expressionist film noir science fiction that, like all good sci-fi, peers into the future to shed light on the present. -
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David Ansen 90
Traffic doesn’t quite come to a full emotional boil at the end. Soderbergh is too knowing to offer easy solutions. But what a journey it takes us on: disturbing, exciting, completely absorbing. -
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David Ansen 90
At its best, Magnolia towers over most Hollywood films this year. -
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Critic Score 90
A marvelous comedy from deep in left field -- immaculately written, unexpectedly touching and pure of heart. -
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David Ansen 90
A delightful surprise... Jewison does his best work in decades. [21 Dec 1987] -
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David Ansen 90
In every detail - the superb soundtrack, the rich cinematography, the dinstinctively edgy editing - Rain Man reveals itself as a movie made with care, smarts, and a refreshing refusal to settle for the unexpected. [19 Dec 1988] -
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David Ansen 90
Luhrmann has raised the level of his game, deconstructing the Hollywood musical -- a genre all but left for dead -- and reassembling it with a potency that hasn’t been seen since “Cabaret.” -
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David Ansen 90
This shamefully underpromoted, gloriously silly romp made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer. Make that this year. -
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David Ansen 90
I don't know how a movie this original got made today, but thank God for wonderful aberrations. -
