Anthony Lane

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The New Yorker
For 1,119 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 30% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 68% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Anthony Lane's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Amour
Lowest review score: 0 The Da Vinci Code
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 614 out of 1119
  2. Mixed: 443 out of 1119
  3. Negative: 62 out of 1119
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Anthony Lane
    Monster
    What Kore-eda doles out are not revelatory surprises so much as gradual enlightenments, and our attitude toward the characters is forbidden to settle or to stick.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Anthony Lane
    The Holdovers
    The fact that characters are provided with statutory secrets, to be disclosed at nicely timed intervals—as happens with Hunham, Angus, and Mary—does not guarantee any intensity in the revelation. The leading players here, however, bring force and grace to the task.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Anthony Lane
    Letters from Baghdad
    You emerge from the film with a divided heart: thrilled to hear of a woman who, ignoring the dictates of the age, filled her days to overflowing, yet ashamed to measure your own days and to find them, by comparison, hollow and bare. Is it too late to follow Gertrude Bell’s example? First, hire your camel
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Anthony Lane
    Eastern Promises
    Cronenberg made a movie called “The Dead Zone,” and I sometimes wonder whether, for all his formal brilliance, he has ever torn himself away from that locked-in, airless state of mind. You walk out of Eastern Promises feeling spooked and sullied, as if waking from a noisome dream.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Anthony Lane
    Little Men
    The best reason to watch Little Men is Michael Barbieri, who musters a blend of soulfulness and aggression that would be remarkable at any age.
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