For 6,904 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 54
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Positive: 2,529 out of 6904
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J. Hoberman 90
The movie is as eloquently uninflected and filled with quirks as its star. -
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Dennis Lim 90
The film's ephemeral, semi-evasive lyricism ultimately works as a modest frame for Bardem's tender, deft portrait, which is in turn suitably expansive and rooted in the most concrete details -- Arenas's pride and anger, his unsentimental wit and defiant vitality. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Although dense with incident and motif, the movie has an effortless flow. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
However familiar, it delivers like a shorted slot machine. -
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J. Hoberman 90
As fascinating as it is discomfiting and as intelligent as it is primal. From first shot to last, France's foremost bad girl has made an extremely good movie -- and maybe even a great one. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Leisurely yet streamlined film, brilliantly adapted by British filmmaker Terence Davies from Edith Wharton's most powerful novel. -
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Leslie Camhi 90
The real star of this film is the crowded, neon-lit byways of the city itself. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Manages to turn a highly dubious concept into a subtle and deliciously mordant comedy. -
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J. Hoberman 90
More concentrated and svelte than its precursor, Once Upon a Time II also has the benefit of fights staged by Master Yuen Wo-Ping that show Jet Li -- another camera-age hero -- to even greater advantage. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Enriches a deceptively anecdotal plot with a combination of observational camerawork, strong narrative rhythms, and deft characterization. -
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J. Hoberman 90
As straightforward in narrative as it is gut-wrenching in effect, A Simple Plan is a sort of slow-motion skid down an icy blacktop— it's a movie you watch with a mounting sense of dread...[It's] an extremely credible thriller and an affecting brother-story. -
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Jessica Winter 90
Redoubtably hilarious as always, Zahn also lends his character unpredictable flashes of anger, pathos, and faint psychosis, even when the movie jumps the median from ticklishly discomfiting black comedy into by-the-numbers horror jolts. -
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Amy Taubin 90
Downey, who radiates more energy doing nothing discernible than most other actors do when they let it all hang out, takes the film to another level. -
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Leslie Camhi 90
At once subtle and visceral, the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful, offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future. -
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J. Hoberman 90
As chilly a spectacle as you're likely to see. It's like watching a comeback in an empty stadium. -
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Amy Taubin 90
The 7Up series is thus one of the rare documentaries to have had a positive practical effect on the life of at least one of its subjects. -
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J. Hoberman 90
From first shot to last, Dworkin's movie is a continuously absorbing, sometimes revelatory, frequently moving experience; as documentary filmmaking it's not only amazingly intimate but also characterized by an unexpected lyricism. -
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J. Hoberman 90
May not be the movie of the year, but it is a seasonal gift to us all. Sweet and funny, doggedly oddball if bordering precious. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
Suzuki has made the ultimate meta-movie, a self-parodying, surrealist gangster daydream as intoxicating and insubstantial as an absinthe swoon. -
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Critic Score 90
Petri's visually flamboyant film turns into a heady mix of Marx, Freud, Wilhelm Reich, and Brecht, with a bit of Dashiell Hammett thrown into the blender. -
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Jessica Winter 90
A scrupulous and impeccably acted account of the fallout from a family secret. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Self-contained, enigmatic, illuminated from within, Huppert banks a performance that pays dividends throughout the film. -
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Dennis Lim 90
The lead performances could hardly be better: Gosling, having stolen and propped up entire movies last year ("Murder by Numbers" and "The Believer"), crackles with the economical intensity of a young Tim Roth. Morse, who has racked up decades worth of idiosyncratic character parts, is monumental in this career-peak turn. -
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Leslie Camhi 90
Norway's hallucinatory, edge-of-the-world beauty imbues the story with a woozy, alcoholic haze and a sense of the marginal spaces into which the messiest aspects of private life are shoved. -
