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Average Movie review score: 64
| Highest review score: | Autumn Tale | |
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| Lowest review score: | Argylle |
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Tom Russo
Finds DreamWorks Animation looking to Viking territory for its next Shrek-sturdy comedy tentpole. By Odin, they make it work.- Boston Globe
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Mark Feeney
Vividly captures a period of movie history. It’s just that the period seems less vital -- sleepier, if you will -- than it once did.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
A lively and affectionate cross between an infomercial and a genuflection.- Boston Globe
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Janice Page
This is a ride, a video game, a soundtrack -- unapologetic and clearly labeled as such. It has no middle speed.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
Somewhat overstylized and deliberately enigmatic, The Girl won't appeal to everyone. But its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.- Boston Globe
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Janice Page
Because Manito is really just an opera without the violins or Viking hats, you probably don't need to have everything spelled out. Its Spanish-English script is secondary to the universal language and timeless drama of family, community, dreams made and dreams dashed.- Boston Globe
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Janice Page
Maybe the redemptions offered are simplistic in the context of this place, but they make for a dramatic (if heavily foreshadowed) conclusion.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Aims its big, bold mother-daughter conflicts straight at the heart by way of the tear ducts, and connects.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
May ultimately be no more than the sum of its (body) parts, but it's still a ghastly service-industry horror story - a film to make you wonder what might be roiling beneath the surface of the placid young woman who hands you your Grande Latte every morning.- Boston Globe
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Wesley Morris
This is that rare art flick whose subject goes nuts because his work is not self-indulgent ENOUGH.- Boston Globe
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Jensen's charming film, is perhaps one of the first in which the actors are credited not by the size of their salaries and egos, but by their vocal ranges.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
The Academy accepts submissions only from real countries, and Palestine isn't one. This is as good a joke, and as dark, as anything in the movie.- Boston Globe
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Wesley Morris
A relentlessly serious action movie, characterized by, of all things, sorrow.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
Open Hearts, like all good melodramas, is ruthless in its insistence that people are dragged, uncomprehending, in the wake of events.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Could have been -- and should have been -- richer and more resonant. It's Hollywood Babylon Lite, only TV movie-deep. But at least it's tangy.- Boston Globe
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Janice Page
The film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths. Entirely appropriately, the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn. That's not just a farm movie, that's life.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
Employs both eloquent and down-to-earth methods to explain the complex reasons why so many of the world's developing countries remain caught in an economic quagmire that prevents them from becoming self-sufficient.- Boston Globe
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Wesley Morris
Short without feeling scant. That's how big its sense of grief is.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
The film never drags, but one of the enjoyable things about it is its way of taking its time letting us get to know and savor the characters.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
An odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Watson's character grows in importance until she eclipses the recessive Luzhin.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
Solid, balanced period piece that focuses on a specific place and time yet resonates with universal themes.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Its attributes and achievements are modest, but its arias, duets, and ensembles are engaging all the same.- Boston Globe
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Movingly recounts a hitherto untold story in the voices of the people who lived it.- Boston Globe
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In addition to the film's two extremely likable stars, the strong supporting cast features a who's who of rising African-American actors.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
The triumph of La Cienaga lies in Martel's way of fashioning the kind of ensemble performance that draws us in by convincing us we're watching behavior, not acting.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
The film's flaws seem unimportant, and it passes the big test, making you want to find out what happens to these characters, even when what does happen is predictable.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
Reliable, standard Disney animated fare, with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages.- Boston Globe
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An illuminating and entertaining study of an underground culture that has become part of the American mainstream.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Sentimental and has its heart on its sleeve, but never heavy-handedly so, and its delicacy and tenderness will get to you if you give it half a chance.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
A chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort.- Boston Globe
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Janice Page
May not be as dramatic as Roman Polanski's ''The Pianist,'' but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high.- Boston Globe
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Wesley Morris
The story is a mess. But On Guard was directed by the reliable Philippe de Broca, who imbues the whole affair with high-calorie silliness.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
If you've got some very small fry on your hands and 75 minutes to kill, this is as bright, colorful, and fuzzy as you're going to get.- Boston Globe
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This real-life alliance is part of what makes the slice-of-life comedy The Wash work as well as it does, despite a somewhat skimpy though often crassly amusing script written by the film's director, D.J. Pooh.- Boston Globe
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Janice Page
Isn't just a feel-good movie; it's a feel-good-and-righteous movie. And audiences will forgive its flaws.- Boston Globe
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More than a predictable self-discovery yarn about the caterpillar that turns into a beautiful butterfly.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Branagh and Love's Labour's Lost all but will themselves into liftoff. They achieve it, and in doing so, they somehow make it right to our pleasure centers with their generous embrace of stardust and pizazz.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
A surprisingly warm and engaging entertainment - brassy, schmaltzy, funny.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Goes soft in the end, but not ruinously so. Meanwhile, its loose cannons bounce off one another deliciously.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Although there's a certain connect-the-dots quality to the storytelling, there's no denying the care and craftsmanship that Gardos has brought to her debut film.- Boston Globe
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A Matter of Taste, French director Bernard Rapp's polished second film, swims in lies, ones that sate at first, but soon intoxicate, seduce, and drown.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
The pure joy of music-making is what this gem of a film is all about.- Boston Globe
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The liveliest, most original family values film of the year so far.- Boston Globe
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The film will resonate with today's alienated workers, whose every brain cell and nerve ending hates the soul-crushing jobs they're told they should be grateful to have.- Boston Globe
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A smartly crafted throwback to the gritty Manhattan crime melodramas of the '40s .- Boston Globe
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This engaging ensemble comedy that could have been called ''Father Doesn't Know Best.''- Boston Globe
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A heady, sometimes blurry combination of fable, legend, and social-political commentary.- Boston Globe
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Wesley Morris
Like Schumacher, director Gregor Schnitzler is more preoccupied with his characters' looks than their behavior. You might not buy the ideas. But you'll definitely want the T-shirt.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Stylish and arrives at a satisfying cumulative weight, even if it isn't Austen pure.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
One hell of a party, and it doesn't let anything get in the way of that.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
A powerful portrait of modern journalism and the nobility -- and futility -- of chronicling modern war.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
It's maddeningly chowderheaded, simplistic, pretentious, and not a little silly. You can't take your eyes off it.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
The film does not offer an optimistic view of relationships.- Boston Globe
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There is a palpable edge-of-the-seat tension and a number of complex ethnic issues that linger after the movie ends.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
A likable satire on celebrity, Flemish-style, it is no less pointed than its American counterparts, just a lot less pompous.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
Perhaps not the most uproarious of Veber's farces, but entertaining and emotionally satisfying all the same.- Boston Globe
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Less elliptical and more down-and-dirty than Lang's interesting debut film, ''The Well,'' this one tumbles through Sydney's academic and alternative poetry circles and is built around a lesbian private eye.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
The sweetly enticing Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire repays the bit of patience it asks.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
It's all glossy urban fairy-tale stuff, laid on with style to spare, given added resonance by a mini-pantheon of French movie goddesses.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
As each scientist chronicles his or her story, one is impressed by the place that unswerving motivation and determination has assumed in the work.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
A deft, elegant, melancholy tapestry of flawed outreach, and the big reason it succeeds is Podeswa's courage in dispensing with a lot of exposition and trusting the audience - and the faces of the actors - to fill a lot of what otherwise would be gaps.- Boston Globe
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It's messy, but in the end satisfying, a film worth making, a journey worth taking.- Boston Globe
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Wesley Morris
Sensationalism and doom are not on screen here; Jacquot offers a relatively peaceful moment in Sade's life.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
Touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes, not least the notion that the marginal members of society - the ones who get spit out on the sidewalk with no idea of how it happened - might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
It's rare that a crime movie achieves such emotional complexity, but this one is smartly layered.- Boston Globe
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Janice Page
Ride it out, and you will find the rewards modest but meaningful.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
A steadily engaging and winningly humane film that loves its characters.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
A delightful alternative to most current multiplex fare, which wouldn't recognize a juicy bon mot if it tripped over one in the aisle.- Boston Globe
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Wesley Morris
Suffice it to say that Chris Smith's Home Movie is the most bananas episode of ''Cribs'' ever. The film is Smith's ballad of the wacky homeowner.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
The performances are disarming and Mumford is the kind of comedy that grows on you if you give it a chance.- Boston Globe
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Jay Carr
The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness.- Boston Globe
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Loren King
MacDowell offers an engaging portrait of a complex woman who has survived life's slings and arrows. It makes Crush an affecting take on modern women.- Boston Globe
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Janice Page
No porno flick posing as art. Nor is it science fiction, though it does contain a few scenes with B-movie overtones. This is a deep and meaningful film, ultimately far more poignant than it is titillating.- Boston Globe
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Ty Burr
There isn't much to The Housekeeper, really, but it plumbs depths of male unease that louder and less wise movies strain to reach.- Boston Globe
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Wesley Morris
The film is faithful to its absurdities, sometimes hilariously so.- Boston Globe
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