Portland Oregonian's Scores
- Movies
For 2,809 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: 1,827 out of 2809
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Mixed: 780 out of 2809
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Negative: 202 out of 2809
2,809
movie reviews
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Marc Mohan 100
With a level-gazed approach to its milieu, empathetic but clear-eyed, Winter's Bone practically makes up for 40 years of "Deliverance"-style hillbilly cartoons. -
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Shawn Levy 100
This is a deeply felt work of art in the form of a big, brassy movie-movie. -
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Shawn Levy 100
Shot to shot, scene to scene, The Social Network nearly never puts a foot wrong or, really, does anything to make you feel less than compelled. -
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Shawn Levy 100
It's a fine, absorbing work, built with brilliance and without excessive showiness or flash. It feels, in fact, like a classic virtually upon its arrival.- Posted Dec 24, 2010
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Critic Score 100
For a movie with such a brisk pace -- it clocks in at just 76 minutes -- Caesar Must Die has surprising depth, particularly when it comes to the strong performances by the actors, many of them Mafiosi serving time for drug trafficking and murder.- Posted Feb 7, 2013
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Marc Mohan 100
For a film that consists largely of a series of talking-head interviews, The Gatekeepers is a riveting a documentary.- Posted Feb 16, 2013
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Kim Morgan 91
One of the most aggressively ambiguous pictures of the year. There is a certain power to that. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Between the tart dialogue, the compelling lead performances, the vivid violence and the stunning cinematography, it's complete and satisfying all on its own. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Along the way it provides the grand, intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot. It may not be perfect, but it's decidedly a cut above. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It's a film in which complex issues are boiled down to human essences, not so much simplified as dramatized in the very best way. -
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Shawn Levy 91
A pure, sweet romance that moves along with bouncy comedy and a touch of grown-up realism and rue. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It's as full a movie as you can imagine -- exhausting and exhilarating and continually fascinating. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Among the film's highlights are an interview with Grand Wizard Theodore, who is generally uncontested in his claim to have invented the idea of scratching vinyl. -
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Kim Morgan 91
Rich in detail, gorgeously shot and beautifully acted, Les Destinees is, in its quiet, epic way, daring, inventive and refreshingly unusual. -
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Kim Morgan 91
A hilarious, sad and sometimes-inspiring documentary directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the film is an all-out Tammy valentine -- campy, dramatic and, of course, makeup-smeared. And better than any melodrama you'll see this year. -
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Shawn Levy 91
This is some of the finest acting you will see on-screen, maybe ever. Single-handedly, Washington turns The Hurricane from so-so to must-see. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Wide-eyed, deadpan and, more often than not, note-perfect. -
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Shawn Levy 91
An exquisite, ecstatic film, crude in its characterizations and plotting, yes, but extraordinary in its capacity for elation and its hard-earned sentimentality. -
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Kim Morgan 91
Beautifully acted, the film is touchingly human and, thankfully, devoid of any vapid, ironic kitsch. -
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Kim Morgan 91
Once you lose yourself in Ruiz's stunning achievement -- a wonderfully acted, beautifully realized vision of Proust -- you'll be enchanted. -
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Shawn Levy 91
So filled with riches that it seems a bit unfair to single out Szabo and Fiennes, no matter how outstanding their work. -
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Shawn Levy 91
When it all comes to a head, what seems ordinary blossoms into something deeply complex and emotional. -
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Kim Morgan 91
A profoundly anxious picture that from its first frame holds you, clenched, never able to let go, even after its unresolved coda. -
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Shawn Levy 91
It's a film of sneaky power, peculiar delights and, finally, the ability to dazzle. -
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Shawn Levy 91
A rousing and agreeable movie that resurrects a small but important episode in baseball history that parallels the larger history of the nation. -
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Shawn Levy 91
Anderson, possessed of an eerily Edwardian aspect, is superb, luminous and knowing and convincingly proud and desperate as the situation requires. -
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Shawn Levy 91
A gripping account of grown-up sensuality, obsession, loss and hope. -
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Shawn Levy 91
If it touches up against the syrupy at a very few moments, it's nevertheless consistently clear-eyed and convincing. -
