For 8,141 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics.
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Stephen Holden 100
Brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie. -
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Stephen Holden 100
Belongs to a school of Central European surrealism that marries nightmarish horror with formal beauty. -
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A.O. Scott 100
In its modest scope and mellow tone, 35 Shots of Rum resembles Olivier Assayas’s "Summer Hours," another recent film by a French director who has sometimes trafficked in provocation and extremity. Both movies embed extraordinary thematic richness within a simple, almost anecdotal narrative framework, and both achieve a rare eloquence about the state of the world by means of tact and reticence. -
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A.O. Scott 100
As sweet, as touching, as humane a movie as you are likely to see this summer. -
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A.O. Scott 100
The rare sports movie that deals with -- indeed positively relishes -- humiliation and disappointment. -
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A.O. Scott 100
It’s an exciting sports movie, an inspiring tale of prejudice overcome and, above all, a fascinating study of political leadership. -
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A.O. Scott 100
A small movie perfectly scaled to the big performance at its center. -
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A.O. Scott 100
And the ingenuity of “Sita” — is dazzling. Not busy, or overwhelming, or eye-popping. Just affecting, surprising and a lot of fun. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
One of those rare films in which the moral stakes are as insistent and thought through as the aesthetic choices. -
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A.O. Scott 100
The movie itself is a nonstop barrage -- somewhere between a riot and an orgy -- of crude, obnoxious gags and riffs. If you are a connoisseur of sexual, scatological or just plain stupid humor, you will find your appetite satisfied, even glutted. -
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A.O. Scott 100
That it is more -- a small masterpiece, perfect in design and execution -- almost goes without saying, but the film’s profundity and its charm go hand in hand. -
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A.O. Scott 100
It is outrageously funny without ever exaggerating for comic effect, and heartbreaking with only minimal melodramatic embellishment. -
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A.O. Scott 100
Lebanon is meticulous, nearly clinical in its attention to what happens in war -- specifically what happened in the first days of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 -- but it is also a palpably and intensely personal film. -
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A.O. Scott 100
Its speedy, funny, happy-sad spirit is so infectious that the movie makes you feel at home in its world even if the landscape is, at first glance, unfamiliar. -
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Stephen Holden 100
Was it all for naught? Only weeks after the 23 partisans were arrested (and all but two promptly executed), Paris was liberated. Army of Crime is a passionate act of remembrance. -
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A.O. Scott 100
Mr. Fan's documentary is informed by a melancholy humanism, and finds unexpected beauty in almost unbearably harsh circumstances. It tells the story of a family caught, and possibly crushed, between the past and the future - a story that, on its own, is moving, even heartbreaking. Multiplied by 130 million, it becomes a terrifying and sobering panorama of the present. -
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A.O. Scott 100
Inside Job, a sleek, briskly paced film whose title suggests a heist movie, is the story of a crime without punishment, of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
Black Swan is visceral and real even while it's one delirious, phantasmagoric freakout.- Posted Dec 6, 2010
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A.O. Scott 100
Mr. Boyle has a knack for tackling painful, violent or unpleasant subjects with unremitting verve and unstoppable joie de vivre.- Posted Nov 4, 2010
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Manohla Dargis 100
Ms. Denis has an extraordinary gift for finding the perfect image that expresses her ideas, the cinematic equivalent of what Flaubert called le mot juste.Posted Dec 14, 2010 -
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A.O. Scott 100
The opening shot of Somewhere, Sofia Coppola's exquisite, melancholy and formally audacious fourth feature, prepares you for what is to follow in a characteristically oblique and subtle manner.- Posted Dec 21, 2010
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Manohla Dargis 100
In some ways, much like Charles Laughton's "Night of the Hunter," which the Coens quote both musically and visually, True Grit is a parable about good and evil. Only here, the lines between the two are so blurred as to be indistinguishable, making this a true picture of how the West was won, or - depending on your view - lost.- Posted Dec 21, 2010
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Manohla Dargis 100
The importance of seeing, seeing the world deeply, is at the heart of this quietly devastating, humanistic work from the South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong.- Posted Feb 10, 2011
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A.O. Scott 100
Of Gods and Men is supple and suspenseful, appropriately austere without being overly harsh, and without forgoing the customary pleasures of cinema. The performances are strong, the narrative gathers momentum as it progresses, and the camera is alive to the beauty of the Algerian countryside.- Posted Feb 24, 2011
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A.O. Scott 100
Rango, which may take place entirely within its hero's head - that kind of ambiguity worked in "Inception" and "Black Swan," so why not here? - is about the appetite for myths and stories, whether or not they make sense. It is about the worlds we dream inside our fishbowls, helped by the weird reflections on the walls.- Posted Mar 3, 2011
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A.O. Scott 100
A splendid example of how to tackle the daunting duty of turning a beloved work of classic literature into a movie. Neither a radical updating nor a stiff exercise in middlebrow cultural respectability, Mr. Fukunaga's film tells its venerable tale with lively vigor and an astute sense of emotional detail.- Posted Mar 10, 2011
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Stephen Holden 100
My Perestroika gives you a privileged sense of learning the history of a place not from a book but from the people who lived it. Watching it is a little like attending a party in an unfamiliar city and discovering the place's secrets from the guests.- Posted Mar 22, 2011
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A.O. Scott 100
Meek's Cutoff is as unsentimental and determined as Ms. Williams's character, its absolutely believable heroine. It is also a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled.- Posted Apr 7, 2011
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