For 4,789 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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Critic Score 91
It'd be silly to call Crank: High Voltage over the top: The top is so far below that it isn't even visible. But at this mostly unexplored altitude--only 2007's inferior "Shoot 'Em Up" comes close. -
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Noel Murray 91
In tone and plot, Julia often resembles an extended episode of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"--except that Swinton's character is never NOT bad. -
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Scott Tobias 91
For the first hour or more, The Hurt Locker boldly forsakes any conventional narrative hook beyond the ongoing tensions between these men and the terrifying grind of defusing bombs day after day. -
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Critic Score 91
Spike Jonze has recently said in interviews that his chief goal ...was to try to capture the feeling of being 9. By that measure--by just about any measure, really--he succeeded wildly. -
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Scott Tobias 91
Raimi’s new film feels distinctly unburdened and fun, happily frolicking in its own pulp silliness. -
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Scott Tobias 91
Humpday carefully raises the stakes until it hits a finale loaded with humor, tenderness, and delicious ambiguity. It’s like "Old Joy" by way of Judd Apatow. -
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Tasha Robinson 91
The Informant! chooses to earn its exclamation point with giggles as well as shock, and the results are thoroughly entertaining. -
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Scott Tobias 91
There’s a purpose to all this madness--though to talk about the primary reason the film succeeds would be giving the game away--but it should be appreciated first as a vivid, waking nightmare. -
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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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Scott Tobias 91
A remarkably nuanced, ever-evolving performance (María Onetto). -
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Noel Murray 91
Lee doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel when it comes to filming live theater, but he moves the camera artfully and edits with an energy that matches the music. -
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Noel Murray 91
WQholly a Coen brothers movie, in that it’s full of exaggerated characters and comic cruelty, anchored to a way of looking at the world that seems to posit a fundamental absence of meaning. And yet there’s something sweet and even a little heartening about the movie, too. -
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Noel Murray 91
Again as with Bong's earlier films, Mother is a genre exercise that honors convention, yet weaves around it whenever possible. Bong carefully turns Mother into a classic gumshoe tale, with red herrings, interrogations, and moments of sublime suspense. -
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Nathan Rabin 91
An Education shares with Hornby’s best work trenchant insight into the way smart, hyper-verbal young people let the music, films, books, and art they love define themselves as they figure out who they are and what they want to be. -
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Scott Tobias 91
Afterschool wears its many influences on its sleeve, but it’s very much a movie of the moment. The passing of time and the evolution of technology may give it an expiration date, but more likely, Campos’ film stands to be an essential document of what it was like to be a young person in the late ’00s. -
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Keith Phipps 91
Broken Embraces welds Douglas Sirk melodrama to the most gracefully unsettling elements of Alfred Hitchcock, wrapping both in the stylish, hushed elegance that’s become Almodóvar’s trademark since his mid-’90s reinvention. -
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Nathan Rabin 91
It’s a film of stunning beauty and deep underlying sadness, a self-financed labor of love filled with impossibly gorgeous, oft-unclothed men and dazzling eye candy. -
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Noel Murray 91
If a team of clever screenwriters tried to script a cautionary tale about the politics of fame (and the fame of politics), they likely couldn’t come up with anything odder or more apt than Erik Gandini’s documentary Videocracy. -
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Noel Murray 91
A Prophet has been compared to American TV series like "Oz" for its episodic plot and large cast, but it’s more like a Gallic "Goodfellas": thoroughly absorbing, exciting, even poetic. It’s a full evening’s entertainment. -
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Tasha Robinson 91
Tattoo is as much mood piece as mystery, and the mood is almost always disturbing. -
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Nathan Rabin 91
Bittersweet and beautifully realized, harsh but humane, Greenberg is a self-consciously small film that nevertheless leaves an indelible mark. -
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Tasha Robinson 91
A surprisingly intimate behind-the-scenes documentary. -
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Noel Murray 91
A documentary that doubles as a comic thriller, and it’s as entertaining as it is thought-provoking. -
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Noel Murray 91
Some people might find it distasteful to make a movie about guilty rich folks who give themselves permission to splurge. Others will rightly appreciate the honesty. -
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Nathan Rabin 91
A Piece of Work is the antithesis of Jerry Seinfeld's engaging but superficial 2002 documentary "Comedian": where the innately private Seinfeld holds nearly everything back, Rivers loudly broadcasts the kind of fears, anxieties, and ambitions most people would do anything to hide. -
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Noel Murray 91
Restrepo can be tedious at times and nerve-racking at others, but why shouldn't it be? That's exactly what Junger and Hetherington saw on the front lines, so that's what they show, with very little filter. -
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Scott Tobias 91
The film is an imposing, prismatic achievement, and strongly resistant to an insta-reaction; when it’s over, Nolan still seems a few steps ahead of us. -
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Noel Murray 91
So what happens when people forget about all those people he stalked and snapped? Will his collection still be seen as an invaluable store of late 20th-century art, or the work of a celeb-obsessed hoarder? -
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Tasha Robinson 91
It acknowledges grief, horror, and loss, but never lets it get in the way of a big, bright laugh. -
