Baltimore Sun's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 1,981 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,133 out of 1981
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Mixed: 490 out of 1981
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Negative: 358 out of 1981
1,981
movie reviews
- By critic score
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Michael Sragow 100
The movie's triumph is that we experience the ending, in which the three girls go mostly separate ways, not as a defeat but as a transition still open to possibilities. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Compulsion, self-deception and the slippery nature of evil are explored with fidelity and supreme control . -
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Chris Kaltenbach 100
Thanks to the wonderful performances from both Korzun and Considine, there isn't a forced or dishonest moment on-screen. -
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Chris Kaltenbach 100
Well-acted, lovingly put together and heartbreakingly honest. -
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Michael Sragow 100
A marvelous picture and a highly unusual journey in and around the Holocaust. -
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Chris Kaltenbach 100
A terrifically engrossing war film in which not a single shot is fired, a movie about shaping events rather than being shaped by them. -
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Chris Kaltenbach 100
It's a startling physical transformation, as Noland goes from flabby desk jockey to lean, mean fishing machine. But even more remarkable is the mental transformation Hanks effects. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Affliction turns the sound on with sudden, crystalline clarity, and echoes with the haunting power of a suppressed truth that has finally been released. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Stops your heart and keeps your belly jiggling with laughter. It's an improbably sunny tragicomedy. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
A thoroughly absorbing, even transfixing, journey to a future that may already be upon us. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Actually moves, whisking the audience on a funny, sad and extraordinary journey through a singularly compelling moment in American pop culture. -
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Chris Kaltenbach 100
A crackerjack thriller, laced with labyrinthine mysteries, moral quandaries and unspeakable evil. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Chicago is the zingiest, most inventive movie of its kind since "Cabaret." -
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Michael Sragow 100
Nolte's gambler-bandit Bob Montagnet is a triumph of imagination, touched with electric existential poetry. -
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Michael Sragow 100
It moves so confidently and brightly that it's ticklish as well as chilling - and, in its own dark way, enthralling. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Lumumba revives the tradition of Pontecorvo's "The Battle of Algiers" and Costa-Gavras' "Z" and "State of Siege." In substance and excitement, it joins their ranks. -
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Michael Sragow 100
The result is harrowing and inspiring. As escapist entertainment, it's the movie of the year. -
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Chris Kaltenbach 100
A non-stop cinematic funhouse impossible to resist. -
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Michael Sragow 100
No Man's Land is a 98-minute wonder: this story of three men in a trench renews the meaning of the word "trenchant." -
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Michael Sragow 100
Roman Polanski's new movie may be the greatest historical film centered on an enigmatic character since Lawrence of Arabia. -
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Michael Sragow 100
The least fussy great movie ever made. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Smart, funny and often viciously cruel, this is a romantic comedy for people who are too old to believe in fairyales but wise enough to accept a happy ending when that's what life gives them. -
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Ann Hornaday 100
Prove(s) once again how ingenious, artful and flat-out entertaining animation can be. -
