For 6,913 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: 2,534 out of 6913
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Negative: 1,317 out of 6913
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J. Hoberman 100
To cut to the chase, Robert Bresson's heart-breaking and magnificent Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) -- the story of a donkey's life and death in rural France -- is the supreme masterpiece by one of the greatest of 20th-century filmmakers. -
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Michael Atkinson 100
Voyage to Italy is close to watching actual strangers suffer loneliness despite being together. It can leave an aching bruise, but only if you're paying attention.- Posted Apr 30, 2013
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J. Hoberman 100
The Leopard is the greatest film of its kind made since World War II—its only rivals are Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" and Visconti's own "Senso." -
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Michael Atkinson 100
Bertolucci's masterpiece--made when he was all of 29--will be the most revelatory experience a fortunate pilgrim will have in a theater this year is a foregone conclusion. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
Bergman locates a generosity and élan that make F&A feel like his youngest film. -
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J. Hoberman 90
Rich in detail, vivid in characterization, leisurely in exposition, this 207-minute epic is bravura filmmaking -- a brilliant yet facile synthesis of Hollywood pictorialism, Soviet montage, and Japanese theatricality that could be a B western transposed to Mars. -
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Critic Score 100
It has come to serve as a solemn metaphor for remembrance, as well as for butt-numbing endurance.- Posted Dec 10, 2010
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Michael Atkinson 100
Laughton understood Agee's proximity to Grimm vaudeville, and fashioned the most intensely expressionistic movie of its day. -
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J. Hoberman 90
It's here that Melville fully achieved his notion of the sublime, applying "Le Samouraï's" "empty" compositions and near theatrical blocking, as well as its methodical suspense, cosmic fatalism, and sense of grim solitude, to a subject far closer to his heart, namely his own World War II experiences. -
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J. Hoberman 80
Casually racist and inordinately sexist, Pépé le Moko is best enjoyed for its offhand surrealism. -
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J. Hoberman 100
Literally and figuratively marvelous, a rich, daring mix of fantasy and politics. -
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Scott Foundas 90
It’s a classic espionage plot shot through with a typically heady mix of art and literary references: Klee and Velázquez, Bach and Haydn, Bernanos and Musil.- Posted Mar 5, 2013
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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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J. Hoberman 100
Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu's brilliantly discomfiting second feature is one long premonition of disaster. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
However familiar, it delivers like a shorted slot machine. -
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Critic Score 100
Robin Hood is movie pageantry at its best, done in the grand manner of silent spectacles, brimming over with the sort of primitive energy that drew people to the movies in the first place. -
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J. Hoberman 80
Revived (with vastly improved subtitles) some 14 years after it first stunned Hong Kong critics, Days of Being Wild is a sort of meta-reverie populated by a cast of beautiful young pop icons. -
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Michael Atkinson 100
The hard-charging originality of the screenplay—the equivalent of turning "The Hot Zone" into a Farrelly comedy—suggests a deficient legacy of credit to Terry Southern's corner. -
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Critic Score 90
Ratatouille is as much a feast for the senses as it is food for thought. -
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J. Hoberman 80
Remains Chaplin's most sustained burlesque of authority. -
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Michael Atkinson 90
Like nearly every other Kiarostami film, Close-Up takes questions about movies and makes them feel like questions of life and death. -
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Stephanie Zacharek 100
Before Midnight—visually stunning, in a late-summer way—is more vital and cutting than another recent marriage picture, Michael Haneke's old-folks-together death march Amour; it has none of Amour's tasteful restraint, and in the end, it says more about the nature of long-term love.- Posted May 21, 2013
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J. Hoberman 70
Corny as that is, the film's nadir comes when Zuckerberg's pretty young lawyer comforts him (or us) with the mealy-mouthed observation, "You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be one." -
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J. Hoberman 70
No previous rocksploitation film had ever done so splendid a job of selling its performers. -
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Critic Score 100
It's a sensational performance by Chastain...She's a most unlikely leading lady, pale and slight of stature, with a raging mane of strawberry blond hair, but she holds the screen with a feral intensity, an obsessive's self-possession.- Posted Dec 18, 2012
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J. Hoberman 80
What's fascinating is how the various issues - religious or practical - are played out in these two quite different families, yet always come down to irreconcilable differences between rebellious women and their stiff-necked, controlling men.- Posted Dec 27, 2011
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J. Hoberman 90
A very nutty fruitcake, Spirited Away is characterized by wonderfully detailed animation, packed with incident and populated by all manner of comic creatures. -
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Critic Score 60
E.T. is a dog movie. Genre-wise, I mean. It's about a boy meeting a dog, naming it, taming it, learning from it, and growing up. Of course, the genre is superficially disguised as science fiction, as was the fashion at the time. -
