For 6,978 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: 2,563 out of 6978
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Mixed: 3,087 out of 6978
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Negative: 1,328 out of 6978
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movie reviews
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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. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Va Savoir has its own unhurried pace and unpredictable humor. This is the sort of comedy Robert Altman could only dream about. -
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Critic Score 90
Among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations. -
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J. Hoberman 90
As mystical as it is gritty, as despairing as it is detached. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Unknown Pleasures suggests a coolly formalist reinvention of neorealism. The film is both distanced and immediate -- a fiction with the force of documentary. -
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Critic Score 90
The visual style has an expressionistic undertow, rich in shadowy chiaroscuro compositions. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
It's a uniquely lonely film, and one of the year's most memorable. -
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J. Hoberman 90
A vivid exercise in hokum that more or less invented the idea of French film noir...and not just for Americans. -
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Critic Score 90
Two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated. -
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Jessica Winter 90
In a remarkably subtle, assured debut performance, Compston evokes Billy in Loach's "Kes" and, in the heartbreaking final seaside shot, Antoine in Truffaut's "400 Blows." -
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J. Hoberman 90
As straightforward and plot-driven as any movie about life imitating art imitating life could possibly be. -
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Amy Taubin 90
It could be described as the most gripping political thriller to hit the big screen in many years, although given the events it depicts through interviews, photographs, and news footage, the words "gripping" and "thriller" have inappropriately frivolous and commercial associations. -
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Amy Taubin 90
There are long stretches in Sexy Beast that are so exhilarating it feels churlish to dwell on its flaws. -
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Ed Park 90
A horror story, told with Dickensian compassion, permeating outrage, and little hope. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Conceptually rigorous, splendidly economical, and radically Bazinian. -
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J. Hoberman 90
A fierce dance of destruction. Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude. -
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J. Hoberman 90
A movie of cutting humor, near-constant talk, and one show-stopping dance routine. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Bloody Sunday doesn't surrender its grip on the viewer even after the action shifts from the streets of Bogside to a local hospital where the weeping masses are still under the guns of the war-painted British soldiers. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Thrilling and ludicrous. The movie feels entirely instinctual. The rest is silencio. -
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Critic Score 90
Hirsch edits segments together to merge disparate voices, showing how for this movement, music was no universal language -- it was specific, pointed, and almost paranormal in its power. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
I've seen only a few films in my lifetime that so potently express the golden hopes of childhood and parenthood, as well as the inevitable decimation of that hopefulness -- that forward-looking bliss -- at the hands of catastrophe, or merely age, spite, and exhaustion. Or, as for the Friedmans, all of the above. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Traffic is not just an ultra-procedural--it's the Big Picture, the Whole Enchilada, complete with a complicated war between two Mexican drug cartels. -
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J. Hoberman 90
A sustained immersion in gorgeously austere street photography and casual portraiture, the images punctuated by bits of black leader and gnomic intertitles, the action propelled by sweetly pulverized music and an effortlessly layered soundtrack of enigmatic conversations. Poetry is really the only word for it. -
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J. Hoberman 90
I can't remember a teenage romance this engagingly offbeat since "Lord Love a Duck." -
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J. Hoberman 90
This lusty, heartfelt movie has a near Brueghelian visual energy and a humanist passion as contagious as its music. -
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J. Hoberman 90
For all its quasi-documentary materialism, The Son is ultimately a Christian allegory of one man's inchoate desire to return good for evil. The movie requires a measure of faith, and like a job well done, it repays that trust. -
