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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David Ansen 90
The payoff comes at the end, when the myriad threads pull together with a shock like a noose tightening around your neck. Built with old-fashioned craftsmanship, Lone Star is not a movie you'll quickly forget. [8 July 1996, p.64] -
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Critic Score 70
At the heart of all Morris's films -- from "The Thin Blue Line" to "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" -- is a fundamental belief in the unreliability of truth. -
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David Ansen 80
In this gorgeously melancholic fresco of love affairs, Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a womanizing pulp-fiction writer in '60s Hong Kong. -
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David Ansen 80
Defies all laws of gravity in its pursuit of thrills and laughs—and it's so disarmingly eager to please that only a stone-faced kung fu purist could object. -
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David Ansen 60
The film seems to want us to pin a medal to its own chest. -
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David Ansen 80
As taut and exciting as many edge-of-your-seat Hollywood escape movies. -
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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
By sticking resolutely to the facts of the most amazing rescue mission of all time, the movie builds tremendous suspense, even though most people will know how it came out. -
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David Ansen 80
Ulee's Gold possesses an attribute that's increasingly rare in American filmmaking, independent or Hollywood: call it soul. -
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Critic Score 70
Pollock can be clunky and TV-movie-ish. Still, Harris gives a fiery, convincing performance. -
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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 80
It’s too early to place Eminem alongside those Hollywood giants (Jimmy Cagney/John Garfield), but the promise is there. He understands the power of being still in front of a camera. Compact, volatile and burningly intense, he’s got charisma to spare. -
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David Ansen 80
The filmmakers are clearly in awe of the Chicks' fighting spirit. If you think Maines's original Bush remark was disrespectful, wait till you hear what she calls him here. Maines is not ready to make nice, and neither is this riveting documentary. -
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Critic Score 90
This one's done right. Here's an intelligent movie with no special effects. You have to pay close attention, to listen hard to its cross-fires of dialogue. -
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Critic Score 100
All-embracing--funny and silly and tender, full of fun scares and endless sight gags. -
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David Ansen 90
Marvin's taciturn performance--a moving demonstration of masculine grace under pressure--may be his finest. -
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David Ansen 80
A Single Man's sleek surface may go against Isherwood's crisp, understated prose, yet the story's beating, wounded heart and its spiky intelligence still come through, personified in Firth's moving, eloquently internalized performance. -
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David Ansen 90
This is a one-of-a-kind action flick: a tale of triumph tinged at every moment with tragedy. -
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David Ansen 90
At its best, Magnolia towers over most Hollywood films this year. -
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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 80
Nair’s stereotype-shattering movie -- like the polymorphous culture it illuminates -- borrows from Bollywood, Hollywood and cinema verite, and comes up with something exuberantly its own. -
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David Ansen 80
A premise this preposterous must be carried off with unflappable comic conviction, and Cusack is just the right man for the job. -
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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 80
The movie crackles with the serio-comic tension of thin-skinned New Yorkers thrown together in a crisis. -
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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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David Ansen 80
The beauty and scale of Miyazaki's vision shines through. -
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David Ansen 90
The movie's slight, anecdotal structure is deceptive; you wouldn't guess how big an emotional wallop it packs. -
