For 4,815 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 2.6 points lower than other critics.
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Negative: 691 out of 4815
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Keith Phipps 100
It's a heartbreaking, bullet-strewn valentine to what keeps us human. -
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Scott Tobias 100
Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's most completely satisfying film since the one-two of "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums," in part because it's the perfect distillation of both.- Posted May 23, 2012
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Noel Murray 83
While all the "Up" films hold a fascination akin to a Christmas letter from an almost-forgotten friend, 42 Up didn't show much progress from "35 Up." Even fans of the series had to wonder whether the faces of England were going to remain permanently frozen. -
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Keith Phipps 90
Haynes makes it possible to forget all the layers at work and simply be swept up in the story's emotions. As in Sirk's films, these characters live and breathe within the film's exaggerated reality, thanks to rich performances by Haysbert, Quaid, and especially Moore. -
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Tasha Robinson 91
War Witch is a remarkably mature portrait that trusts its audience to have their own reactions to its material; it doesn’t yank at the heartstrings so much as expertly strum them.- Posted Feb 27, 2013
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Keith Phipps 90
In his best film since "Unforgiven," Eastwood ultimately lets observations on character, community, and the tidal patterns of tragedy shoulder a burden an ordinary murder mystery never could. -
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Noel Murray 83
Its final scene is almost overpoweringly tender and beautiful, offering a hopeful rejoinder to all the prior scenes of family members shedding their shared legacy. -
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Scott Tobias 83
Trier doesn't allow the bleakness of the material to swamp the film in a miserablist tone, but he doesn't hold back, either, in revealing every hairline crack in Lie's fragile psyche.- Posted May 23, 2012
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Noel Murray 91
Looper is a remarkable feat of imagination and execution, entertaining from start to finish, even as it asks the audience to contemplate how and why humanity keeps making the same rotten mistakes.- Posted Sep 26, 2012
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Noel Murray 91
An intoxicating performance piece in which skilled actors pinball off each other with such energy and nuance that the audience almost forgets about the dying man on the edge of the frame. The style alone makes the movie's point. -
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Scott Tobias 91
Old Joy doesn't try for too much, but its subtle victories leave plenty to savor. -
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Noel Murray 83
A comedy of sorts, though to Jacobs' credit, he doesn't aim for cheap laughs. -
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Keith Phipps 91
Almodóvar is still one of the few directors worth watching just for how he uses color on the screen. But the pleasures have always run much deeper, and now they run deeper still. -
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Noel Murray 83
Ultimately, the film is just a smart caper picture with some good performances, but at times it's VERY smart, and Hoffman's performance in particular is one of the most natural and unexpectedly affecting that he's given in years. -
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Noel Murray 83
Typically, Leigh withholds his own judgment as to whether Hawkins is a delight or a terror. But he does create a noticeable tension between the audience's expectations and the way the story plays out. -
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Nathan Rabin 83
Block Party is largely a giant love-fest, which is fitting given the staggering amount of simpatico musical and comic talent on display, though some conflict surfaces nevertheless. -
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Noel Murray 91
The first third of Iraq In Fragments is so intense--a masterpiece in miniature, really--that audiences may not have much emotion left for the rest. -
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Scott Tobias 91
Bujalski's brand of stylized dialogue sounds genuinely fly-on-the-wall. -
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Scott Tobias 90
An inspired, original, and gracefully integrated collaboration of theater and cinema that complements not only both forms, but also the seductive, dreamlike qualities of the source material. -
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Noel Murray 83
Viewers' interest in Boxing Gym will likely wax and wane, depending on their interest in martial arts.- Posted Oct 21, 2010
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Nathan Rabin 83
Crazy Heart could use more rough edges, but while it’s a little too sentimental and tidy, Bridges’ humane, deeply empathetic lead performance makes it easy to root for one man’s redemption. -
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Scott Tobias 90
Far from the solemn earnestness of most Holocaust documentaries, Fighter addresses the war and its oft-toxic reverberations with refreshing impudence and candor. -
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Scott Tobias 100
Kaufman strikes just the right balance between playfulness and sincerity, leaping freely from one absurd situation to another before pulling back on the reins. -
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Scott Tobias 83
The Secret Of The Grain stretches out at the relaxed pace of a seven-course meal, but at the end of it, Kechiche has squeezed the most he can out of percolating dramas within the family and he lets the audience get to know its members without needing to throw them all a subplot. -
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Noel Murray 91
Anyone who enjoys overpowering cinematic sensation and watching people do a job will be predisposed to like Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s avant-garde documentary about life aboard a commercial fishing vessel. Leviathan is an immersive experience, plunging viewers into darkness and chaos, amid a rush of vivid color and rapid movement.- Posted Feb 27, 2013
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Scott Tobias 90
Edited with an impeccable sense of timing and rhythm, with each new revelation and insight planted at just the right moment, Bus 174 examines an already gripping story from a moving and untold perspective. -
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Keith Phipps 91
In The Loop floats above its chaotic world on wave after wave of beautifully profane dialogue. -
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Keith Phipps 83
Gripping action and vulnerable heroes writ large. It boldly goes somewhere different and makes it hard to leave the film not hoping for a return voyage soon. -
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Scott Tobias 83
Though Chop Shop is an American film, it feels more like an Iranian movie or the Dardenne Brothers’ "Rosetta"; Bahrani introduces something like a plot point in the late-going, but he mostly focuses, to riveting effect, on how his young hero hustles and claws through everyday life. -
