Steven Rea

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Philadelphia Inquirer
For 2,033 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 26% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Steven Rea's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Touch of Evil
Lowest review score: 0 Isn't She Great
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,609 out of 2033
  2. Mixed: 278 out of 2033
  3. Negative: 146 out of 2033
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    Kings & Queen
    Kings and Queen, full of passion and humor, madness and grief, is close to a masterpiece. It's like life: messy, impossible, elating, unavoidable.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    Let's Get Lost
    Baker's life, like his music, was as sad as it was beautiful. And Weber's movie - obsessed with Baker's image as much as with his songs - hits all the right notes.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    Turtles Can Fly
    Offers a sometimes lyrical, sometimes gut-turning portrait of war seen through the eyes of children.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    The Departed
    It's a movie with a pulse. Sometimes, it flies off the chart.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Steven Rea
    Festival Express
    Both a concert film and a more intimate thing: a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall (or fly-in-the-dining-car) glimpse of some clearly blotto rock legends talking, singing, hanging out. The fact that a good number of them are now dead makes it doubly memorable.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Steven Rea
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Even if you get lost - in the spyspeak, in the codes, in the comings and goings of grim-faced men with satchels full of documents they should not have - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is worth getting lost in.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Steven Rea
    Half Nelson
    It's a performance that will make you cringe - with despair, with empathy - as Gosling's Dan takes one self-destructive step after another.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    Vincere
    A gorgeous operatic tale of obsession and madness.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    Street Fight
    Whether or not Street Fight wins the Academy Award Sunday night, Curry's picture is must-see fare for any and every observer of the curious world of American politics.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    About Schmidt
    A quiet, heart-rending masterpiece, one with an actor's turn that people will remember, and rediscover, eons into the future.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    Hero
    Its stars - especially the photogenic Leung and Cheung, fresh from Wong Kar Wai's jazzy romance In the Mood for Love - are wonderfully charismatic. And wonderfully athletic.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Steven Rea
    Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    This drag-queen melodrama, like its star, perseveres.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    The Pursuit of Happyness
    The relationship between Chris and his diminutive namesake is at the core of the film - the determination to be there for his son, no matter what; the mentoring, the pair's goofy, lovely banter. And Smith and his bright-eyed boy pull it off brilliantly.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Steven Rea
    Everybody Wants Some!!
    Linklater, drawing from his own experiences as a baseball player at Sam Houston State University, looks back with affection, a knowing wink, and maybe the beginnings of an apologetic shrug at the jerk behavior, the locker-room pranks. These guys smell freedom in the air - and maybe some pot smoke, too.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Steven Rea
    O'Horten
    A deadpan delight.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    24 Hour Party People
    Hopped-up and electrifying. The soundtrack is wall-to-wall and propulsive.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    The Tree of Life
    Still, somehow, The Tree of Life - impressionistic, revelatory, elliptical - works.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Steven Rea
    Alexandra
    Alexandra never depicts the soldiers in combat, but Sokurov nonetheless shows how war can break down the social structure, break down family, break the human soul.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    The Host
    A wonderful, witty mix of horror and social satire, The Host takes its simple, time-tested premise - menacing creature terrorizes the populace - and runs with it.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Steven Rea
    Meek's Cutoff
    I wanted to like Meek's Cutoff more than I did. Reichardt and her writer, Jonathan Raymond, bring a quiet, watchful sensibility to their work, allowing the actors room to reflect and riff. But the stilted language and rectitude of the times don't always mesh with the acting.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    Fruitvale Station
    It shows us the everyday pressures and problems, the joys and pleasures, experienced by someone moving through life. And then that BART train pulls into Fruitvale, and the rest is history.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    The Circle
    Quiet, rageful indictment of a two-tiered Islamic society.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    Since Otar Left
    At turns funny, sweet, sad, trenchant and telling. It's a gem.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    Slumdog Millionaire
    It doesn't happen often, but when it does, look out: a movie that rocks and rolls, that transports, startles, delights, shocks, seduces. A movie that is, quite simply, great.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    A Christmas Tale
    Roiling with laughter, tears, drunken confessions, revelatory soliloquies, pain, sorrow, hospital visits, and various kinds of love, A Christmas Tale is a smart, sprawling, and sublimely entertaining feast.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    In the Shadow of the Moon
    Quite simply, a revelation.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    Children of Men
    A chase movie, a spy movie, a futuristic thriller full of colorfully bizarre characters and deftly choreographed stunt work, Children of Men works on multiple levels - as action and allegory.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    Revanche
    A slow-burning, character-rich study in desperation, grief, vengeance, loyalty, and love. It's the sort of arthouse entry - in German, mostly - that gets you thinking about an English-language remake.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Steven Rea
    The Man Without a Past
    A dour-faced but sublime comedy about the kindness of strangers -- and about the strangeness of people who find themselves in oddball moments of grace.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Steven Rea
    Moonrise Kingdom
    The usual complaints and caveats about Anderson - he's precious, his characters have no grounding in the real world - can be made about Moonrise Kingdom, but so what? This is his seventh feature, he has been working with a gang of collaborators in front of the camera and behind, and his worldview gets richer, and more revealing, even as the view from his lens gets smaller, closer, almost two-dimensional in its oddball tableaux.
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