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
This delightful film, with its surprising depth charges of emotion, has the feel of a movie that's going to lodge itself in the public's affections for a long time to come. -
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David Ansen 90
Zaillian's meaty movie, at once bleak and hopeful, speaks volumes about the maddening distance between justice and the justice system. -
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Critic Score 90
A beautifully told story of a child's innocence and faith, filmed with exquisite detail and stunning cinematography -
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David Ansen 90
One of the year's best: a rich, funny, enormously humane portrait of a middle-class Taipei family in the throes of romantic, economic and spiritual upheaval. -
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David Ansen 90
You have to pay close attention to follow the double-crossing intricacies of the plot, but the reward for your work is dark and dirty fun. -
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David Ansen 90
There’s not a whisper of melodrama or sentimentality in the way Moretti tells his tale, guiding us through the stages of grief with calm, devastating lucidity. -
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David Ansen 90
Deep Blue Sea gives good rush -- earning its stripes as one terrific junk movie. -
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David Ansen 90
Full of bravura moments and high-wire performances. -
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Critic Score 90
A Walk on the Moon not only effectively captures the emotional development of all its characters, but it also neatly encapsulates the tumult of the 60s. -
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David Ansen 90
What sets Jerry Maguire above any other romantic comedy this year is Crowe's writing. He captures the venal, high-stakes world of pro sports with deadly wit and an ex-journalist's sense of detail. -
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David Ansen 90
There are few movies around that take such huge risks: this is high-wire filmmaking, without a net of irony. -
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David Ansen 90
Lehmann isn't in perfect control - the movie gets off to a flat-footed start, and the conclusion is chaotic - but when Heathers hits its stride, it reaches wild and original comic heights. [2 April 1989] -
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Critic Score 90
This film has everything for the all-important female audience: feisty heroines, lots of slapstick, great clothes. -
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David Ansen 90
It's a swirling, fluid retelling of the tale that packs an impressive cargo of laughs, thrills and wonders into a watertight 88 minutes. -
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David Ansen 90
It has the stately, well-crafted anxiety of a Hitchcock movie, except that the protagonist and antagonist are one and the same. -
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Critic Score 90
Sarandon and Davis give superb, wonderfully interactive performances: funky, fierce, funny and poignant. [27 May 1991] -
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David Ansen 90
A painfully funny movie. There’s nothing in the history of movie courtship quite like the first meeting between Pekar and his future wife and fellow depressive, Joyce Brabner. -
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David Ansen 90
The best movie of the last 20 years about young people in love is 1989’s. -
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David Ansen 90
A terrific piece of work: smart, inventive and executed with state-of-the-art finesse. -
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David Ansen 90
Vertical Ray slows our rhythms and heightens our senses: it's a shimmering, tactile experience. -
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David Ansen 90
Exuberantly theatrical yet every inch a movie, and some numbers ("The Cell Block Tango") are so entertaining you might want to applaud. -
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David Ansen 90
The movie is, from start to finish, a hoot... Both a savvy satire of smalltown boosterism and an affectionate salute to the performing spirit. [10 Feb 1987, p.66] -
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David Ansen 90
The results are wondrous, wrenching and crazily funny to behold. -
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David Ansen 90
This powerful, precision-made movie offers hope as well -- an act of kindness from a German officer that saves the pianist’s life, the music that sustains his soul. -
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David Ansen 90
Peirce's taut, sure-footed first film sidesteps sensationalism without sacrificing any of the story's wonder and horror -
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David Ansen 90
Has an almost perfect-pitch grasp of those messy, idealistic, vibrant times, when everyone was trying to reinvent himself from the ground up. -
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David Ansen 90
It's as smart, quiveringly alert and fleet of foot as a purebred pointer on the scent of fresh game. -
