St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Scores
- Movies
For 592 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 6.6 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Score distribution:
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Positive: 453 out of 592
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Mixed: 100 out of 592
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Negative: 39 out of 592
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movie reviews
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Calvin Wilson 100
At once an unforgettable war film and a brilliant character study. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
Shot mostly in black and white and imbued with a romanticism that's at once nostalgic and exhilarating, Tetro sneaks up on you. What threatens to be a mere exercise in style proves to be as involving as it is inventive. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
A comedy of discomfort -- and one of their (Coen brothers) best, most insightful and most provocative films. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
Involves the gradual revelation of the hopes, fears and insecurities of well-observed characters. -
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Joe Williams 100
Up in the Air may not end up as the best picture -- that will be decided by the Academy -- but it has landed in the middle of the discussion because it's laser-focused and right on time. -
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Joe Williams 100
The combination of a literate script, an adroit cast and an economical style is simple addition that achieves an alchemical feat: the best film of the year. -
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Joe Williams 100
An exciting cloak-and-dagger thriller. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
A stark, contemplative and hauntingly brilliant film. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
Bursting with smart dialogue, surprising situations and humor that springs from richly imagined characters. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
The success of the three, separately screened films -- the first set in 1974, the second in 1980 and the concluding segment in 1983 -- depends not on their specifics, but on their ability to sustain an atmosphere that's appropriate to the dark but haunting story. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
Essential viewing for art-film buffs and crime-flick fans, but also for anyone who's looking for a great story, terrific acting and masterful filmmaking. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
Sophisticated comedies have gone out of fashion, largely because Hollywood finds it easier and more profitable to simply gross out moviegoers. But Please Give has real class -- and for that it deserves our gratitude. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
The Kids Are All Right probably could have used a few more scenes to come to an even more satisfying conclusion. But it's a terrific film anyway. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
Nev and the filmmakers prove to be charismatic, and at times hilarious, investigators of the unfolding mystery. -
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Calvin Wilson 100
An exhilarating balancing act, at once a science-fiction romp, a paranoid thriller and a philosophical treatise.- Posted Mar 4, 2011
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Joe Williams 100
Beauty comes to us unexpectedly. That's the message of Poetry, a Korean movie about an aging housemaid that turns out to be one of the best films of the year.- Posted Apr 8, 2011
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Joe Williams 100
The Tree of Life is a religious experience. Overtly. Audaciously. Unashamedly. No film has ever reached as high toward the face of God and, in our commodified future, few are likely to try.- Posted Jun 10, 2011
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- Posted Jun 24, 2011
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Joe Williams 100
With such supercharged material under the hood, a magnetic man behind the wheel and a nimble director manning the pits, Senna is simply the greatest sports film I have ever seen.- Posted Sep 2, 2011
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Calvin Wilson 100
Into the Abyss makes a strong case for the inhumanity of capital punishment, regardless of the crime or the criminal.- Posted Nov 23, 2011
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- Posted Jan 20, 2012
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Calvin Wilson 100
The result, Pina, is the most spirited and spectacular film about dance since Robert Altman's "The Company."- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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Joe Williams 100
That action is bloody, but Fiennes' choices as director are unassailably apt and artful. Coriolanus is a triumph.- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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Joe Williams 88
Anyone suggesting that an Italian film could rival the style and grandeur of "The Godfather" might end up sleeping with the fishes. But Il Divo delivers. -
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Joe Williams 88
It sustains a palpable fatalism in such recurring details as a whirring buzz saw and the cry of a loon, while the static camera and lack of musical cues enable some unforeseeable plot twists. -
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Joe Williams 88
The reason District 9 reverberates so loudly is because its moral indignation is cranked to 11. -
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Joe Williams 88
A movie that will be discovered, embraced and shared with friends like a favorite record album. -
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Joe Williams 88
With exquisitely simple images and minimal dialogue, Seraphine is both haunting and humane. -
