Philadelphia Inquirer's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 3,131 reviews, this publication has graded:
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70% higher than the average critic
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3% same as 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: 2,358 out of 3131
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Mixed: 513 out of 3131
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Negative: 260 out of 3131
3,131
movie reviews
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Carrie Rickey 100
Piercingly funny and unexpectedly moving account of that odd couple, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) and HRH Elizabeth II (majestic Helen Mirren) and their back-channels affair. -
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Carrie Rickey 100
This psycho-thriller, a Golden Globe winner and presumptive favorite for the foreign-film Oscar, itself is revelatory. -
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Steven Rea 88
An eerily quiet, bracingly bloody, and expertly laid-out adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel. -
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Steven Rea 100
If vigilance and preemption, recompense and retaliation is not enough, the film asks, then what is?- Posted Feb 28, 2013
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Desmond Ryan 100
The triumphant masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa's fertile twilight. -
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Steven Rea 100
If Malik doesn't remind you of Al Pacino's Michael Corleone on his journey from innocence to corruption in "The Godfather" saga, well . . . he should. A Prophet is similarly, startlingly momentous. -
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Steven Rea 88
It's been a long time since a film has conveyed a culture, and a sense of place, with such telling precision. At the same time, Winter's Bone thrums with suspense. -
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Desmond Ryan 100
It's an occasion for welcoming a restoration that transforms a flawed movie, one that was touched by greatness, into a masterpiece. -
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Steven Rea 100
A bracing, unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale. -
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Steven Rea 75
Still stands as a gloriously silly and twisted send-up. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Though not as great as "Toy Story 2" and "Monsters, Inc.," Pixar movies that are the gold standard for family movies, Finding Nemo is visually entrancing. -
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Steven Rea 88
So jaw-droppingly out there, so bracingly bizarre, and, much of the time, so fall-over-funny that even its flaws don't matter. Easily the oddest movie of the year, it is also one of the best. -
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Steven Rea 100
It's great to see an American filmmaker - and a successful one at that - willing to simply train his cameras on the actors and let them, and their characters, come to life. -
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Carrie Rickey 100
A movie with the sweet soul of "Toy Story" and the boisterous spirit of "Spy Kids." -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Crowe is so good on mood and milieu that when Elton John's bubblegum ballad "Tiny Dancer" swells on the soundtrack, in this context it sounds like a hymn. -
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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 75
At its best it is one of the most dynamic movies from a most dynamic filmmaker, now 76. -
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Steven Rea 100
It's Greengrass' way of asking a question that looms large in these post-9/11 days: Are we all praying to the same God, or is one man's God better than another, and one man's God vastly more terrifying? -
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Carrie Rickey 88
Isn't like the classic Japanese drama "Rashomon," which suggested that one person's perspective of an event gave him a different truth from the person standing elsewhere. -
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Carrie Rickey 100
Persepolis, the superb film based on Satrapi's graphic memoirs of the same name, is a riveting odyssey in pictures and words. It's unlike any journal you've read or any animated movie you've seen. -
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Carrie Rickey 100
Lives is a best-foreign-film nominee competing in a year that at least three movies in this category are stronger than Oscar's best-picture contenders. -
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Steven Rea 100
It's action opera, sword-and-sorcery song-and-dance, and it's a heart-pumping, jaw-dropping thrill. OK, so I kind of like the thing. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
He had the fearlessness of a 104-story man and something more than a daredevil's brass. -
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Steven Rea 88
Baron Cohen brings scary conviction to the performance. -
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Carrie Rickey 88
Lucid, concise and devastating account of what went wrong in Iraq, patiently counts those 500 ways. -
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