Joe Morgenstern
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44% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Joe Morgenstern's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 62 | |
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| Highest review score: | Drive My Car | |
| Lowest review score: | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,446 out of 2688
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Mixed: 742 out of 2688
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Negative: 500 out of 2688
2688
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reviews
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- Joe Morgenstern
As in previous films, Mr. Baker mixes amateur and professional actors to exceptional effect.- Wall Street Journal
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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- Joe Morgenstern
Watching Ahlo mix his explosives is like watching a Cordon Bleu chef whipping up a stupendous soufflé.- Wall Street Journal
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- Joe Morgenstern
In the entertainment culture that surrounds us, words like "harrowing," "anguishing," "unfathomable" or "horrifying" don't sell movie tickets. Capturing the Friedmans is all of these things and more.- Wall Street Journal
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- Wall Street Journal
- Posted Apr 28, 2016
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- Joe Morgenstern
Pulls you in with smooth assurance, then holds you hostage to extremely creepy developments in the most awesome haunted house since "The Shining."- Wall Street Journal
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- Joe Morgenstern
The comedy is elegant, frequently dark and genuinely witty. The spectacle is gorgeous.- Wall Street Journal
- Posted Nov 23, 2018
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- Joe Morgenstern
Rarely has so scary a thriller been so well made, and never has digital video -- by the English cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle -- been put to grittier use.- Wall Street Journal
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- Joe Morgenstern
The new film, shot in vivid hi-def video, is part documentary and part fiction based on interviews; it uses on-camera interviews with workers, some played by themselves and some played by actors, to evoke a past of unimaginable toil, and suffering, in the service of the Communist state.- Wall Street Journal
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