For 7,686 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 59
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Positive: 3,444 out of 7686
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Negative: 1,043 out of 7686
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movie reviews
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Vincent Canby 100
The film itself is invigorating - written, directed, and acted with enormous insight and comic elan. [27 Sept 1991] -
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A.O. Scott 100
"Print the legend," Mr. Wilson says at one point, both quoting John Ford and laying the foundation for his own often fact-free fabulous fabulism. And this movie is just that -- fabulous. -
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Stephen Holden 100
Creates a cinematic mosaic of American lives unprecedented in its range, balance, subtlety and even-handedness. -
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A.O. Scott 100
There are few concert movies that were filmed were such abiding feeling and respect. It's of a potent vintage that goes down deceptively smoother with age. -
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Dana Stevens 100
Like a good novel, Les Destinées is many things: a family chronicle, a series of psychological portraits, a sumptuous re-creation of the past. But the film is also a pointed tribute to the French tradition of quality and distinction, a tradition in which it clearly includes itself. -
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Dana Stevens 100
Astonishingly well acted film, so much so that it seems unfair to single out any of the performances. Mr. Lawrence's camera sense is as sure and unobtrusive as his feel for acting. The movie just seems to happen, to grow out of the ground like a thorny plant, revealing the intricate intelligence of its design only in hindsight. -
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A.O. Scott 100
Probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever. -
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Dana Stevens 100
Its pleasures are almost obscenely abundant. -
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Dana Stevens 100
In exchange for three hours of your time, Yi Yi will give you more life. -
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Janet Maslin 100
A tough, gorgeous, vastly entertaining throwback to the Hollywood that did things right. As such, it enthusiastically breaks most rules of studio filmmaking today. -
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Stephen Holden 100
Several times while watching the movie I laughed until the tears were running down my face. -
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A.O. Scott 100
One of the most purely enjoyable films ever made. -
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Janet Maslin 100
Succeeds in finding something larger than one man's misery. It turns dark truthfulness into the cinematic sentiment most worth celebrating this season. -
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Critic Score 100
Astonishing... One of the freshest American films of the decade. [4 Aug 1989] -
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Dana Stevens 100
Like finding that perfect stage of moderate drunkenness in which the senses are sharpened rather than dulled, and time passes with leisurely grace. -
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Vincent Canby 100
What makes it so instructively entertaining is the pivotal character of Claus von Bulow, played by Jeremy Irons within an inch of his professional life. It's a fine, devastating performance, affected, mannerly, edgy, though seemingly ever in complete control. [17 Oct 1990] -
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Dana Stevens 100
Not merely an interesting document from a far-off place; it is a masterpiece. -
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Vincent Canby 100
It raises the spirits not by phony sentimentality but by the amplitude of its art. From time to time, it is also roaringly funny... A terrific movie. [1 Oct 1993, p.C1] -
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Elvis Mitchell 100
Turns out to be a smashing success, a juggernaut of an action-adventure saga that owes noithing to the past. To put it simply, thi is a home run. [6 August 1993, p. C1] -
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Vincent Canby 100
Merchant, Ivory and Jhabvala triumph again with their entertaining, richly textured film. [13 March 1992] -
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Vincent Canby 100
Mr. Lee means for Malcolm X to be an epic, and it is in its concerns and its physical scope. In Denzel Washington it also has a fine actor who does for Malcolm X what Ben Kingsley did for “Gandhi.” [18 November 1992] -
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Elvis Mitchell 100
A devilishly entertaining crime story with a heroine who must be seen to be believed, is as satisfying an ensemble piece as “Red Rock West.” [26 October 1994, p. C13] -
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Vincent Canby 100
Looks grand without being overdressed, it is full of feeling without being sentimental. Here’s a film for adults. It’s also about time to recognize that Mr. Ivory is one of our finest directors. [5 November 1993, p. C1] -
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Elvis Mitchell 100
It reimagines the buddy film with such freshness and vigor that the genre seems positively new. -
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Vincent Canby 100
Prepare yourself for something very special...Here's a severely beautiful, mysterious movie that, as if by magic, liberates the romantic imagination. [16 Oct 1993] -
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Elvis Mitchell 100
A film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny, and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed. [22 June 1988] -
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Elvis Mitchell 100
A supremely elegant and thoughtful parable. [14 September 1994, p. C11] -
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Elvis Mitchell 100
A blazing, unlikely triumph about a man who is nobody's idea of a movie hero. Smart, funny, shamelessly entertaining and perfectly serious too. -
