Owen Gleiberman

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Entertainment Weekly, Variety
For 3,925 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Owen Gleiberman's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Invite
Lowest review score: 0 The Men Who Stare at Goats
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,325 out of 3925
  2. Mixed: 1,189 out of 3925
  3. Negative: 411 out of 3925
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Owen Gleiberman
    Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
    What’s most moving about Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is that Sacks, whose extreme love of existence was there in every sentence he wrote, could embrace death because it would be the most out-there adventure of his life. What he saw is that we were all, in our ways, afflicted and all unique. And therefore all extraordinary.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    The Filth and the Fury
    A great, searching, incendiary chronicle of the Sex Pistols, the razor-hearted visionaries of punk anarchy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Owen Gleiberman
    Pandas
    Pandas is less sentimental than you expect, but you can respect the film’s honesty and still leave it hoping that the next true-life panda adventure delivers more of a feel-good ending — for the audience, and mostly for the pandas.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
    If you see only one movie this year about a twisted, cuddly, courageous, fatally diseased, self-mutilating love slave, make sure that movie is Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Owen Gleiberman
    Second Best
    Second Best might have made a good stage monologue, but as a film it's overstated and barely baked.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Owen Gleiberman
    Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    Mr. & Mrs. Bridge is watchable but also stiff and remote.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Owen Gleiberman
    Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    At once scary and stirring.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    Another Year
    What it does have is an overwhelming bittersweet melancholy at the passing of life from middle age into…well, you could call it late middle age.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 67 Owen Gleiberman
    The Sum of All Fears
    A world-detonation thriller, at once urgent and lazy, that benefits from its connection to current events and also, by the end, suffers from it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    A Mighty Wind
    A movie that re-creates its object of satire with such pitch-perfect flair that it all but erases the line between derision and love.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Owen Gleiberman
    Mass
    The writing is so deft, and the actors so committed, that by the end you feel you’ve touched the burning core of something real.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Owen Gleiberman
    13th
    More than just another documentary, it’s a crucial and stirring document — of racism and injustice, of politics and the big-picture design of America — that, I believe, will be watched and referenced for years to come.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Owen Gleiberman
    Fresh
    After a rich, anecdotal first half, Fresh, inspired by the lessons of his derelict-chess-whiz father (Samuel L. Jackson), ends up setting his own human chess game in motion. You may not believe a minute of it, though you won’t forget Nelson’s face.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Owen Gleiberman
    Sade
    Achieves the near-impossible: It turns the Marquis de Sade into a dullard.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Owen Gleiberman
    Arrival
    Adams draws on her gift for making each and every moment quiver with discovery. The actress is alive to what’s around her, even when it’s just ordinary, and when it’s extraordinary the inner fervor she communicates is quietly transporting.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    Blue Valentine
    Blue Valentine is lushly touching and gorgeously told.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Owen Gleiberman
    The Dissident
    The Dissident is riveting, but it’s also a moving testament to a man whose courage burned too brightly to die with him.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Owen Gleiberman
    The Secret of Kells
    Regrettably, the film's story is so busy yet flat that the effect isn't magical -- it's more like watching the tale of some very enchanted wallpaper.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    Between clips of the concerts Seeger staged as hootenanny hosannas, the film chronicles how the blacklisted star stuck true to his beliefs -- which were more patriotic than those of his accusers.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    A Simple Plan
    Lean, elegant, and emotionally complex -- a marvel of backwoods classicism.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Owen Gleiberman
    Living in Oblivion
    Living in Oblivion celebrates the very act of filmmaking as grand folly, a triumph of absurdist heroism.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    Little Richard: I Am Everything
    Little Richard: I Am Everything, directed with supreme love and insight by Lisa Cortés, is the enthralling documentary that Little Richard deserves.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Owen Gleiberman
    Admission
    Admission, a likably breezy campus movie directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy), is blissfully non-insulting.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Owen Gleiberman
    Warfare
    It scrapes every last bit of romantic glamour off the image of combat, and I guess you could say that’s an achievement. But it’s an achievement, in this case, that seems to be saluting itself.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Owen Gleiberman
    MLK/FBI
    MLK/FBI leaves you wanting more, but it provides a gripping chapter in the story of how the forces of American power set out to destroy one of America’s greatest leaders, even as his private behavior had the effect of handing them a weapon.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Owen Gleiberman
    Happiness
    Like David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, and Paul Thomas Anderson, Solondz revels in ironic pop passion. It's a signature moment when he transforms Air Supply's "All Out of Love" into a geek-love rhapsody.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Owen Gleiberman
    Deep Cover
    Duke is out to blend the commercial, gut-wrenching pleasures of an inner- city shoot-’em-up with the complex moral rage that marked such black-cinema touchstones as Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song (1971).
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Owen Gleiberman
    Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
    The film is meticulously evenhanded and revealing.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Owen Gleiberman
    Tina
    I went into Tina feeling like I knew this story in my bones, but the film kept opening my eyes — to new insights, new tremors of empathy, and a new appreciation for what a towering artist Tina Turner is.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Owen Gleiberman
    Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened is a nimble documentary made with a personal touch of nostalgia, and it should prove nothing less than catnip to Sondheim obsessives.
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