Stanley Kauffmann

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The New Republic
For 471 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Stanley Kauffmann's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lowest review score: 0 Hulk
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 274 out of 471
  2. Mixed: 152 out of 471
  3. Negative: 45 out of 471
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Stanley Kauffmann
    Good Morning, Night
    Bellochio, who began his career in 1965, has made some of the most trenchant Italian films on political themes, and Good Morning, Night is one more of them.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Stanley Kauffmann
    Circle of Friends
    Like an old-fashioned theater program, it tells you early on who and what each of its characters is--and so they prove to be, enjoyably. [10 Apr 1995 Pg.30]
    • The New Republic
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Stanley Kauffmann
    Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    The really relevant defect of this thriller is that it isn't scary.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Stanley Kauffmann
    The Bridges of Madison County
    Eastwood, who directed the picture adequately, is inadequate in this role. He has done a lot of impressive acting in films, but none of it has been sexually romantic, and the age of 64 was not the right time to take up that line of work. [03Jul1995, Pg. 26]
    • The New Republic
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Stanley Kauffmann
    The Cuckoo
    Rogozhkin's hard, hands-on directing technique and the physicality of all three actors are--or could be--impressive, but they are swamped here in a sea of ideological mush.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Stanley Kauffmann
    Monsieur Ibrahim
    At least we have the chance to see Sharif again, with our memory of the sun behind him, even though this film is not much more than a sweetmeat--Turkish delight.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Stanley Kauffmann
    Infamous
    McGrath says that he considers his film to be lighter in tone than TC 1, which is baffling. The reverse seems the case.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Stanley Kauffmann
    North Country
    But the contrast between setting and story isn't all that bars North Country from fulfillment. The major trouble is Theron. She plays Josey as well as is needed, but she is simply too beautiful.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Stanley Kauffmann
    The American President
    But for those who can summon up the talismanic "what if," The American President provides chuckles and tingles, even a few sobs. [18 Dec 1995, p.28]
    • The New Republic
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Stanley Kauffmann
    The Secret Life of Words
    Like Ceylan--like many a fine director--Coixet has made her film less as a drama than as the traversal of a state of mind, a mood.
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