Marjorie Baumgarten

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Austin Chronicle
For 2,069 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Marjorie Baumgarten's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Born in Flames
Lowest review score: 0 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,117 out of 2069
  2. Mixed: 663 out of 2069
  3. Negative: 289 out of 2069
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Marjorie Baumgarten
    The Invisible Man
    The story is one of those great mad scientist tales in which the potion invented with the best intentions for its enhancement of human life becomes instead an evil force bent on its destruction. The visual effects here are pretty great - and at first comedic - as the Invisible Man smokes and brawls and rocks in a chair. Oh, but then the horror happens.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Imitation of Life
    The film is a biting critique of American race relations in the Fifties and a complex study in contrasts and paradoxes.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Pain and Glory
    An abundance of color is present in Pain and Glory but the shades are more muted than Almodóvar’s early color-saturated work. Thematically and visually, this film has more in common with such Almodóvar dramas as "All About My Mother" and "Talk to Her." Pain and Glory is ultimately the story of an artist on the verge of a creative breakthrough.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 78 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Russian Ark
    A tour de force of modern cinema.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Lord of War
    The movie is a strange amalgam of compelling visuals and fascinating vocational details forged with deep moral ambivalence and often hollow didacticism.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    All That Breathes
    All That Breathes instills admiration and wonder while also subtly implicating human beings in a responsibility for the upkeep and furtherance of life.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Red Hook Summer
    There's little drama or sense of progression in the movie until the bombshell hits, and then it just whimpers along for another half-hour until the end.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Three Colors: Blue
    Blue is a movie that engages the mind, challenges the senses, implores a resolution, and tells, with aesthetic grace and formal elegance, a good story and a political allegory.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 78 Marjorie Baumgarten
    In the Mood for Love
    A stylistic tour de force, one that wordlessly emotes and wears its emotions on its literal silk sleeves.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Grizzly Man
    A truly provocative essay.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Spartacus
    Kubrick’s gladiator film is the pinnacle of sword-and-sandal epics, and who isn’t a sucker for stories about rebellious slaves? This is the kind of movie the Paramount’s screen was made for.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 78 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Nomadland
    As usual, Oscar-winner Frances McDormand delivers a rich, physically detailed performance that leaves as much under the surface as above it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    The Diary of a Teenage Girl is the rare movie that presents the subject of the loss of virginity from the female perspective. Not only is the film unique in this regard, but also in its frankness, humor, and artistry.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 67 Marjorie Baumgarten
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is hopelessly depressing. Yet as a story of the callous impersonalization we inflict upon one another, the film is timeless.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Shakespeare in Love
    The end result is a delightful, though a smidge too long, reminder of one of the reasons we so enjoy going to the movies: perchance to dream.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Marjorie Baumgarten
    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    In the end, The Fog of War offers a couple of hours of brilliant clarity amid the noise and chaos.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Brokeback Mountain
    It's possible to point to some weak spots in Brokeback – its seeming multiple endings, the lack of clarity about certain images, some digressions – but there is no movie this year that has moved my heart more than Brokeback Mountain.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    The Kid with a Bike
    How the Dardennes, time and again, turn gritty, mundane subjects into transcendent moments of honesty and truth is one of the great cinematic wonders.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Tarnation
    Sometimes people grow up sane despite the best efforts of society to drive them mad. This is the case for filmmaker Jonathan Caouette.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Murderball
    Co-directors Rubin and Shapiro deliver the rare documentary that totally entertains, informs, and inspires.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Marjorie Baumgarten
    First Kid
    As kids' comedies go, this one's fairly topical and, better yet, amusing.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 78 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Caché (Hidden)
    What's compelling about Caché is not the answer to the whodunit but Haneke's exacting invocation of palpable tension.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    All About My Mother
    It's filled with marvelous performances, fabulous wit, and some dizzying images.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 78 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Moneyball
    Moneyball is a smart, funny, and thoughtful baseball movie.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Saint John of Las Vegas
    You watch and wait for this underachieving film to ignite, then grow more and more exasperated as you witness its many misfires.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 67 Marjorie Baumgarten
    The Tillman Story
    Though the story played out in the national media, this documentary makes effective use of commentary by Tillman's survivors, who resent the way the military lied to them and exploited the memory of their loved one to serve an ulterior purpose.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Room
    Room is ultimately not something you’d readily call enjoyable, but it is a cathartic and provocative reminder that life is full of possibilities and outcomes.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Under the Sand
    Manages the most delicate of hat tricks: It gives definition to uncertainty.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 89 Marjorie Baumgarten
    Written on the Wind
    This oil-family story is way, way east of Eden. Were I asked to choose, Written on the Wind would blow in as my favorite Sirk film.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 67 Marjorie Baumgarten
    42: Forty Two Up
    A living artifact that does what movies do best: exist in time.
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