Philadelphia Inquirer's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 3,133 reviews, this publication has graded:
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70% higher than the average critic
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27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,359 out of 3133
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Mixed: 514 out of 3133
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Negative: 260 out of 3133
3,133
movie reviews
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Steven Rea 88
A small, beautiful film exploding with big ideas. -
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Desmond Ryan 88
Underlines the nightmare of entrapment so vividly captured in The Day I Became a Woman. -
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Desmond Ryan 88
The pleasure of The Limey lies in watching what actors who have aged like fine wine can do in that world. -
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Desmond Ryan 88
If you've had enough of the loony tunes coming from Florida, this piece of absurdist serio-comedy is the perfect picture. -
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Desmond Ryan 88
It works beautifully and illuminates aspects of Freud that you might think beyond the reach of the the camera. -
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Steven Rea 88
With the filmmaking techniques pared to the bone, it is left to the actors to bring the scenes alive - and they do, often brilliantly. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
Boasts rich texture, sly vision and rueful humor. -
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Desmond Ryan 88
The film treats the ensuing issues of conscience and compromise with subtlety and warmth. -
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Steven Rea 88
With deft and subtle performances and an uncomplicated but savvy script, Autumn Tale gets to the inner lives of its characters. -
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Steven Rea 88
An amiable mix of "Grumpy Old Men" comedy and "Apollo 13" can-we-fix-this-jalopy-before-we-die? Drama. -
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Steven Rea 88
In the end, The Last Kiss holds less a cynical view of the matrimonial state than one of considered irony. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
A superb film that begins with death, ends in renewal, and finds almost as much to laugh about as to cry for. -
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Steven Rea 88
This long (nearly three hours), revelatory movie is both a thrilling adventure about endurance and survival, and an elegiac examination of centuries-old tribal culture, fast-fading in the new millennium. -
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Steven Rea 88
A small but moving film that gets the details right (life in a sleepy burg, sidewalk chats between old high school pals) and gets at the heart of human longing for family, for love. -
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Steven Rea 88
A compelling existential tableau: sweating bodies, creaking mills turned by numbed oxen, people facing the daily and seasonal cycles of life with little hope of breaking free. Behind the Sun is forceful stuff. -
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Steven Rea 88
A fine, inventive '70s period piece about friendship, first love, and growing up to face the hard lessons of life. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
Featuring seasoned warriors reflecting on whether we can best fight violence with violence is enormously compelling. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
The film has the dog-eared look of a homemade valentine and the improvised sound of '60s jazz, courtesy of a score by Mark Suozzo and a spirited soundtrack including Marvin Gaye's "Ain't That Peculiar," which might be the film's anthem. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
"Shrek" is a scintilla funnier, "Toy Story 2" a hair's breadth more poignant, but "MI" is every bit as imaginative and lovable as these other contemporary animation classics. -
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Steven Rea 88
A devastatingly funny portrait of a wildly dysfunctional clan, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums is a movie about how people never really mature in ways that matter. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
Throw bouquets at Marshall, who instead of dissecting it to death, neatly resurrects the Hollywood musical. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
Director Manoel de Oliveira's minimalist, incomparably moving I'm Going Home ranks with John Huston's "The Dead" as one of the great works by a director at his twilight. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
Unlike most other teen cautionary tales, Thirteen does not accuse merely one villain for the corruption of a minor. -
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Steven Rea 88
A story of obsession and honor, deception and self-deception set against a sharply etched landscape of political upheaval and intrigue. Malkovich orchestrates all this with assuredness, and Bardem, looking weary and worn, inhabits his character with a realness, a truth, that's downright spooky. And beautiful. -
