Salon.com's Scores
- Movies
- Music
For 2,740 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
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Positive: 1,455 out of 2740
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Mixed: 925 out of 2740
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Negative: 360 out of 2740
2,740
movie reviews
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Andrew O'Hehir 100
One of the year's best films precisely because it can't be boiled down to a message or synopsis. It's an exercise in style that risks trashiness in search of transcendence, and it's a sizzling celebration of the power of music, the power of images, and the electric, destructive power of the human body.- Posted Nov 23, 2012
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Andrew O'Hehir 100
A sweeping and magnificent work of cinematic craft, by far the best film of Bigelow's career.- Posted Dec 14, 2012
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Andrew O'Hehir 100
This is an unforgettable love story set at the close of day, as tragic and beautiful in its way as "Tristan und Isolde," and a portrait of the impossible beauty and fragility of life that will yield new experiences to every viewer and every viewing.- Posted Dec 20, 2012
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Andrew O'Hehir 100
If you have the patience to watch this film develop and unfold, like some bizarre night-blooming orchid, what you'll see is not just the last movie released in 2012, but possibly the most original of them all.- Posted Dec 31, 2012
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Critic Score 100
The pictures — migrants leaping off a westbound train, a quick close-up of a face riven with conflicting emotions, locusts on a stalk of wheat — truly tell the story. [21 March 1997]- Posted Mar 12, 2013
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Andrew O'Hehir 100
I also understood that while this movie is deliberately constructed so that almost nobody will “get it” or like it – and I’m not sure how I feel about that perversity – it’s a masterpiece despite that, or because of that or just anyway.- Posted May 1, 2013
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Stephanie Zacharek 90
Ramis has made a fleet, unself-conscious, eminently enjoyable picture, where one-liners carom merrily like stray bullets, and where there's casual ease, like the drape of a sharpster's trousers, in the rapport between its two stars. -
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Critic Score 90
This dizzying saga of the '80s Manchester music scene is garish, reckless, endlessly self-indulgent and totally untrustworthy. What a blast! -
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Charles Taylor 90
Surely one of the canniest and most accurate films about American working-class life ever. -
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Charles Taylor 90
A delight from top to bottom, packed with romance, adventure, beautifully executed swordplay and a sumptuous period look. -
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Charles Taylor 90
One of those rare literary adaptations that finds its fidelity in freedom, that stands as both a fitting version of its source material and as its own creation. -
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Charles Taylor 90
A giddy madcap classic, one of the wildest and funniest American comedies in years. -
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Stephanie Zacharek 90
Smolders with more reserved passion than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." -
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Charles Taylor 90
It's a deluxe vacation for adults with all frills included: glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex. -
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Stephanie Zacharek 90
It's an unapologetic dazzler, which is why it's never overwhelmed by its themes. -
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Charles Taylor 90
Walking out of the theater, I felt so bereft that I couldn't speak. And it doesn't hurt any less thinking about the movie now, as I write this. -
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Charles Taylor 90
Shot in sumptuous black-and-white by Dreujou, Girl on the Bridge might just be the most beautiful-looking movie of the year. -
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Stephanie Zacharek 90
It's a lean, mean movie, and not a pretty one, but it leaves no question as to Breillat's angular originality as a filmmaker. -
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Stephanie Zacharek 90
Wonderful...It's funny and offbeat, sometimes raucous, but it still manages to come at you in gentle layers. -
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Stephanie Zacharek 90
Anderson's Lily is the kind of heroine who earns our protectiveness by never begging for it; it's an astonishing performance. -
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Andrew O'Hehir 90
A masterful accomplishment...teems with its own sense of life, crackles with daring, walks the tightrope between satire and pathos with a rare assuredness. -
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Charles Taylor 90
From moment to moment, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a pleasure. But when the Coens are really cooking, when the acting and the conception and the music all come together, it's something more -- Dogpatch rapture. -
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Charles Taylor 90
Affliction is a harsh experience, but the harshness isn't a matter of punishing the audience or of the director, Schrader, showing off his toughness: That unvarnished harshness is the very essence of the material. -
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Critic Score 90
So seamlessly buoyant and enjoyable that it's easy to miss how carefully and sensitively it's made. -
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Andrew O'Hehir 90
Turns a hysterical night of African-American humor into the hottest little picture of the summer. -
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Stephanie Zacharek 90
Hits every color note just right. It's a visual antidepressant. -
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Andrew O'Hehir 90
It's a difficult film to follow and at 172 minutes is maybe a half-hour too long. But simply as a sensory experience The Fast Runner is amazing. -
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Stephanie Zacharek 90
The movie has a crispness about it, an unwillingness to succumb to sentimentality. -
