The Globe and Mail (Toronto)'s Scores
- Movies
For 3,541 reviews, this publication has graded:
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46% higher than the average critic
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51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,978 out of 3541
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Mixed: 1,035 out of 3541
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Negative: 528 out of 3541
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movie reviews
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Rick Groen
Reservoir Dogs sizzles - it's dynamite on a short fuse, and you watch it with mesmerized fascination, simultaneously attracted and repelled by the explosion you know will come. -
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A masterpiece, but of a unique kind... A gorgeously filmed, supremely well-acted, intricately written film noir about now. -
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It's a long time since I've heard a press screening audience applaud a foreign film, but then it's a long time since a French movie has been as funny as The Dinner Game. -
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You don't need to have seen a lot of art films to love The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky. All it takes is compassionate curiosity and perhaps some lingering memory of the world as a child experiences it. -
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Cinema Paradiso converts you to the credo that art can indeed be holy. -
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May be less than the sum of its parts, but its parts are more impressive than most other wholes around. -
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Legs flashing and eyes smouldering and brain scintillating, Fiorentino serves up each facet with venomous glee - it's a performance that mixes a main course of Bette Davis with a side order of La Femme Nikita, and it's mesmerizing. -
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Great art is both immediately accessible and eternally elusive, having at its centre a powerful simplicity that speaks to anyone who cares to listen, that rewards every interpretation while embracing none. The Piano is great art. -
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It comes eerily close to duplicating the experience of reading while, at the same time, remaining very much a motion picture. That's a rare, perhaps even unprecedented, achievement. -
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It's one modern film worthy of being called a contemporary classic. -
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A classic... Edward Scissorhands is a sharp salute to the oddball in all of us. -
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Simultaneously a tough, haunting, lyrical, hopeful film, and the tears it wants us to shed are an alloy of sorrow and joy - cleansing tears, the kind that alter the rules and dignify the game. -
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Eyes Wide Shut still towers above most of the movies out there, immersing the viewer in a web of emotional complexity, at once raw and personal and, at times, theatrically overcooked. -
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In short, Batman is terrific - funny, smart and sensitive too, the perfect cinematic date. -
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No so-called serious gangster film has ever been more fun, or less dangerous, or more intrinsically feminist, than GoodFellas. Even "I Married the Mob" was scarier. -
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At best, Leaving Las Vegas is pure alchemy -- it makes of flawed humanity a hymn, and of forlorn hope a beacon. -
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This is the master at the top of his form, his erratic genius harnessed and everything clicking, everything flowing, a fresh creation from a mature artist. -
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Pulp Fiction is at least three movies rolled into one, and they're all scintillating. -
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May be the best war movie ever made...Different is Kubrick's artistry and control, and his almost perverse, but philosophically progressive, refusal to impart to chaos a coherent narrative contour. -
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A great movie... A pop epiphany, marking that commercially creative point where the power of Hollywood meets the purity of myth. -
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British humour at its eclectic best, a deliciously heady mix of dry wit and ribald farce. -
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There's a giddy, absurd charm to the story, in which the strange setting only enhances the comfortable familiarity of the narrative and characters. -
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Take nothing seriously - not the action, not the gore, not the plot, not the theme. Instead, view Desperado as it's meant to be seen - a comedy - and you're in for an unalloyed treat; heck, you're in for one of the funniest flicks of the year. -
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It is superbly executed and, for all its pitilessness, it's an intelligent dramatization of the impact that consumerist values have had on the psyche of the North American middle class at the end of the 20th century. -
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If nothing else can be said of Dogville, it's a film that is like nothing else. -
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The best Canadian beer movie since "Strange Brew," and the best 1930s musical of the year, The Saddest Music in the World is the kind of exhaustingly delirious film that only Winnipeg director Guy Maddin could make. -
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Before Sunrise is a film that first startles you with its simplicity, then bowls you over with its complexity.
