Portland Oregonian's Scores
- Movies
For 2,791 reviews, this publication has graded:
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64% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 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: 1,813 out of 2791
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Mixed: 777 out of 2791
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Negative: 201 out of 2791
2,791
movie reviews
- By critic score
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Diana Abu-Jaber 100
All the up-from-under satisfaction of an underdog getting over, with the added oomph of the truth. -
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Kim Morgan 100
Filled with wonderful performances, especially by Hedaya and Walsh, Blood Simple remains a tight, beautifully ugly, neo-noir classic. -
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Barry Johnson 100
A snappy little heist movie with acting performances both deft and brilliant -
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Kim Morgan 100
Simultaneously modern and yet gorgeously primitive with its budget sets and simple but influential score, this is not just a film re-release but a film event. -
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Kim Morgan 100
A witty, frightening, well-acted picture with near-perfect cinematic timing. -
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Diana Abu-Jaber 100
The moments of accidental sweetness that emerge from these odd, ultra-lives are meltingly funny and touching. -
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Kim Morgan 100
Can a film so expertly capture the odious and bitter that it becomes deliciously, disgustingly beautiful? Yes, if that film is 1957's Sweet Smell of Success. -
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Kim Morgan 100
Though Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland appears as gritty as they come, it uncommonly has a romantic heart. -
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Kim Morgan 100
She (Cho) can tell a joke, mimic, offer commentary, play cute, play ugly and be so hilariously absurd that tears will run down your cheeks. -
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Kim Morgan 100
It's a heap of contradictions that will leave your head spinning. -
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Shawn Levy 100
One of the most joyous, diverting and original mainstream American movies in years. -
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Kim Morgan 100
Unafraid of walking the fine line between the repellent and the human, Shallow Hal is wickedly funny but heartfelt. -
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Shawn Levy 100
The film, built around McKellen's magnificent performance, is a sleek and deceptively artful work, a bio-pic that manages to encompass the whole of a man's rich life by concentrating solely on the final months of it. -
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Diana Abu-Jaber 100
Searing, intense and unrelenting, Affliction moves to the deepest centers of experience and desire and brings its characters to unflinching life. -
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Shawn Levy 100
A gorgeous, engrossing, utterly alien and fresh movie that has the human truth and impact of classic Greek myth and the overwhelming beauty and mastery of the greatest epic films. -
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Kim Morgan 100
Utterly thrilling and enthralling, a commercial film that paces itself wonderfully, never allowing the action or romance to outweigh its story and characters. For mainstream adventure fare, that's quite an accomplishment. -
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Critic Score 100
Scott superbly re-creates the sense of individuals facing astounding odds, with barely a few minutes' respite over a 12-hour battle. -
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Shawn Levy 100
It's a triumph of the film that it manages to make Jeffrey Dahmer a human being -- at least a member of the species -- without ever bending toward empathy with or excuses for him. -
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Kim Morgan 100
With its eye-popping color, bold personality and snazzy tunes, Chicago is a breathtaking experience. -
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Kim Morgan 100
One of the purest instances of indie cinema this year. "Pure" meaning that in every aspect of filmmaking and intent this picture is peerless, so truly real, funny, poignant and sexy that it almost feels like a watershed cinematic moment. -
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Kim Morgan 100
Isn't just a horror film, but an American classic. Watch again and reflect for days after -- at your own risk. -
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Shawn Levy 100
Almost more valuable as a piece of foreign policy than as the highly accomplished work of cinema it is. -
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Kim Morgan 100
It's a remarkable, thoughtful achievement that will make you want to watch it twice. You should. -
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Shawn Levy 100
The adaptation of "King Lear" to feudal Japan is an extraordinary spectacle. -
