Claudia Puig

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TheWrap, USA Today
For 1,937 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Claudia Puig's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Whiplash
Lowest review score: 12 Jeepers Creepers II
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,237 out of 1937
  2. Mixed: 436 out of 1937
  3. Negative: 264 out of 1937
1937 movie reviews
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    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    Boyhood
    One of the most extraordinary films in decades, this family drama is also one of the most ambitious in scope, having taken more than a decade to shoot. Yet it comes across as effortless and unassuming. Boyhood is an epic masterpiece that seems wholly unconcerned with trying to be one.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    Pan's Labyrinth
    Pan's Labyrinth artfully fuses a war film with a family melodrama and a fairy tale. The result is visually stunning and emotionally shattering.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Depressing and gut-wrenching, but always powerful and gripping.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    Spirited Away
    Director Hayao Miyazaki treats his audience as imaginative and intelligent human beings, rather than catering to kids with rote displays of silliness, stunts and scares.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    12 Years a Slave
    The harrowing 12 Years a Slave is a mesmerizing period drama for the ages.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    Ratatouille
    Like the best French cuisine, Ratatouille is ambitious and delightful.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Claudia Puig
    The Wackness
    Both darkly funny and life-affirming, in an offbeat and offhanded way.
    • USA Today
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    Gravity
    The telling of this simple tale of survival required cutting-edge technology, but we don't notice the bells and whistles: They're on hand to immerse us in an unforgettable personal story.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    The Social Network
    The film owes much of its success to the inspired pairing of Fincher and Sorkin.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    The Hurt Locker
    Both a psychological portrait and an exciting action film.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 63 Claudia Puig
    Zero Dark Thirty
    While this decade-long look at the inner workings of the CIA is intriguing, the movie would have benefited by more character development and additional editing.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    A Separation
    Sophisticated and universal yet deeply intimate, A Separation is an exquisitely conceived family drama that has the coiled power of a top-notch thriller.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    WALL-E
    At once futuristic, funny and fantastical.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    Before Midnight
    Bittersweet, intelligently written, deftly acted and painfully honest.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    As good as each individual movie is, the third film vaults the work into the stratosphere of classic movies. Key characters are enhanced, new civilizations visited and battles fought more intensely, while feelings and motivations are plumbed more deeply and movingly.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 75 Claudia Puig
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    As played by Oscar Isaac, he's snidely funny, world-weary and deeply sad. Though his story is enigmatic, the film itself is brilliantly acted, gorgeously shot and altogether captivating.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Claudia Puig
    The Lucky Ones
    Though the lead performances are uniformly good, the film seems hazy in its focus from the start. Many of the scenes seem to simply meander.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    There Will Be Blood
    A searingly intense and artful tale that grabs hold of the viewer from its jarring and wordless opening scenes and doesn't let go.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Claudia Puig
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    Whereas the book was lyrical and moving, the movie is surrealistic and inventive.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    The Class
    The Class is a deeply moving film about the challenges of educating children in a complex and often turbulent world.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    No Country for Old Men
    The Coen brothers have fashioned a wry and riveting hybrid of a drama, Western, crime thriller and action film that is as powerful and thought-provoking as it is genre-bending.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Claudia Puig
    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    Rings has moments of edge-of-the-seat excitement, too, such as when the dark riders come looking for Frodo. But it's occasionally tedious when it should be captivating.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Claudia Puig
    Fanboys
    Delayed a couple of years, shown to fans at conventions and retooled, Fanboys is an uneven and largely predictable adventure, but it has its moments.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    Toy Story 3
    This installment, the best of the three, is everything a movie should be: hilarious, touching, exciting and clever.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    The Triplets of Belleville
    Both a nostalgic throwback to the silent-picture era and an ultra-modern animated tale, the slyly humorous Triplets of Belleville is artful, engrossing and oddly touching.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    The Queen
    The Queen is the kind of thought-provoking, well-written and savvy film that discerning filmgoers long for but rarely get.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Claudia Puig
    Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley's memoir is a poignant, funny and engrossing film, challenging our notions of memory and family mythology.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Claudia Puig
    Her
    Though set in the future, Her is a timely, soulful and plausible love story.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 75 Claudia Puig
    Waltz with Bashir
    This is a powerful, poignant and provocative film, told in an unconventional and effective fashion.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Claudia Puig
    Towelhead
    The potency of the acting is also undercut by leaden pacing and a sense of claustrophobia.
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