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
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Reviewed by
Kim Morgan 91
Finding Forrester achieves a distinct success few Hollywood movies can even dream of: It overwhelms and inspires with understatement. -
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Shawn Levy 91
A purely cinematic experience. You've got to see it, in other words, to understand. -
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Reviewed by
Shawn Levy 91
An empathetic portrait of humanity on a house-by-house, heart-by-heart basis. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It's a movie about having a sibling and all of the pain, joy, love and anxiety that that entails: a movie, in other words, for almost everyone. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Recoing's performance is chillingly low-key -- sometimes you can swear that he believes his own fictions -- and Livrozet, making his film debut, has a perfect long-in-the-tooth charm. -
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Kim Morgan 91
A picture so powerfully harrowing, its slight shortcomings are forgettable compared to the entire film's cumulative effect. It's that searing. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Working toward its refreshingly light but utterly apt ending, the film teems with insights into the human condition revealed by an unusually smart script and a wonderfully committed cast. It's a truly fine work. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Although the plot might sound like the stuff of a soap opera, a smart script, strong performances and an ideologically determined lack of filmmaking niceties result in a shattering, deeply felt work. -
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Shawn Levy 91
You will be heartened by the amazing sensation of watching one of the greatest works in the history of the medium unfold in front of you, piece by piece, year by year. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Leconte's signature on the film alone makes it worth seeing. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It's no wonder that Polanski, himself an artist who has survived a series of nightmares, should tell it so naturally and powerfully. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It's an entirely conceived work of art, dark and hopeless and maybe even callous, but glittering and wonderful in its determination and in its craft. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Possesses a tone that wobbles masterfully between whimsy, dread, affection and horror, building on rich performances and an understated showiness to cast a queer and tingly spell. -
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Shawn Levy 91
One of the best children's movies in years. Spunky, inventive and filled with life and wonder. -
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Critic Score 91
The director manages to maintain a steady streak of grim humor. Extreme repression can be bleakly funny in its idiocy, when viewed from a distance. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It romps along with infectious good humor but continually imparts a sense that underneath all the surreal frivolity lurks a scathing allegory of modern-day Balkan troubles. -
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Reviewed by
Diana Abu-Jaber 91
This multistoried historical plot is packed with almost three hours of nuances and hidden meanings, and the slippery smiles and sly innuendoes often seem lost in translation. -
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Shawn Levy 91
For long stretches, the film is just as funny as the first -- which is saying something, since the first is one of the funniest comedies of the decade, the only film in years to truly infiltrate our communal language and sense of humor. -
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Reviewed by
Kim Morgan 91
A slow burn. A portrait of the mundane humor and horror of everyday life, it scalds nerves you may have never thought existed. And yet the film is funny, almost hilariously at times. -
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Shawn Levy 91
We laugh, yes, but we're touched, too, a delicate balance that the film manages again and again, right through to its bittersweet conclusion. -
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Reviewed by
Kim Morgan 91
It's creepy, but it's not horrifying. Still, the movie has its distorted, haunting moments that will stick with you, and it's stunning to look at. -
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Critic Score 91
It's all jolly bad fun, but the primo aspect of the exercise is the phenomenally intense performance by Kingsley as a careening sociopath who is every bit as dangerous to his friends as to his foes. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It's the most charming and buoyant film Spielberg's ever made. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It breaks so sharply from the practice of contemporary horror film that it requires us to return to the most basic understanding of what it is to be frightened by a movie. -
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Reviewed by
Kim Morgan 91
It's almost numbingly sad, but you won't regret watching -- and you'll surely never forget it. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Feels as true as a documentary, as painful as a blow to the heart. -
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Reviewed by
Shawn Levy 91
A spry and appealing film that throws off comic sparks with aplomb. -
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Shawn Levy 91
With its sweet soul and sharp mind, it's one of the most heartening films of the year. -
