For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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2% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 2 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 67
| Highest review score: | 13th | |
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| Lowest review score: | Wide Awake |
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Negative: 760 out of 7797
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Once in a long while, a fresh-from-the-headlines movie - like "All the President's Men" or "United 93" - fuses journalism, procedural high drama, and the oxygenated atmosphere of a thriller into a new version of history written with lightning. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's meticulous and electrifying re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is that kind of movie.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 5, 2012
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Nicholson’s live-wire performance turns what could have been a standard movie malcontent into a martyr.- Entertainment Weekly
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Don't tell Walt Disney, but Hayao Miyazaki really holds the keys to the magic kingdom.- Entertainment Weekly
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The power of The Social Network is that Zuckerberg is a weasel with a mission that can never be dismissed. The movie suggests that he may have built his ambivalence about human connection into Facebook's very DNA. That's what makes him a jerk-hero for our time.- Entertainment Weekly
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Memento, which may be the ultimate existential thriller, has a spooky repetitive urgency that takes on the clarity of a dream.- Entertainment Weekly
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With Malcolm X, Lee has created a galvanizing political tragedy, the story of a leader who, through his very perception and daring, recognized that death — and only death — would be his final evolution.- Entertainment Weekly
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Brie Larson, as the caring but tormented Grace (who's pregnant and doesn't know if she has the faith to have her baby), and John Gallagher Jr., as her gentle-dweeb fellow worker Mason (who fears his love can't save her), show you what emotionally naked acting is all about.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 21, 2013
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E.T. is ultimately a tale of love, and the film becomes a cathartic leap into pure feeling. [2002 re-release]- Entertainment Weekly
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Westerns can be a tough nut to crack, but Hostiles may be the finest example of the genre since "Unforgiven."- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Although the laughs are tempered with a seedy undercurrent and a lump-in-the-throat ending, Allen has rarely been funnier.- Entertainment Weekly
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The Wrestler is like "Rocky" made by the Scorsese of "Mean Streets." It's the rare movie fairy tale that's also a bravura work of art.- Entertainment Weekly
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The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.- Entertainment Weekly
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This adventure, interwoven with the spectacular tale of Siddhartha’s journey toward enlightenment, makes for magical, mind-broadening entertainment.- Entertainment Weekly
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Owen Gleiberman
Hoop Dreams is an astonishing emotional experience — it has highs, lows, and everything in between.- Entertainment Weekly
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Joe McGovern
Erupting like a scalding geyser from the ground right beneath our feet, Spike Lee’s daring, dizzying, sympathetic, symphonic, vital, vehement Chi-Raq is the most urgently 2015 movie of 2015.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 3, 2015
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May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.- Entertainment Weekly
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DuVernay has done a great service with Selma. Not only has she made one of the most powerful films of the year, she's given us a necessary reminder of what King did for this country...and how much is left to be done.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 17, 2014
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An extraordinary film; it may be the most haunting documentary since ''Crumb.''- Entertainment Weekly
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There’s enough slapstick and silliness to keep kids entertained.... But the film also has a bittersweet streak about the loss of innocence and the fleetingness of childhood.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jun 17, 2015
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Melissa Maerz
What's on screen will leave you in a state of wonder. The sweeping cinematography surveys the cracked earth and Davidson's chapped skin with equal intensity, as if to remind us how vulnerable we puny mortals are.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 10, 2014
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Extraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art.- Entertainment Weekly
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
The nervy style of this newfangled Western, with its eerie, insinuating score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, is so effective that long after Pitt and Affleck have left the screen, emotional disturbance lingers like gun smoke.- Entertainment Weekly
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She's an Everywoman you can believe in, showcased in the kind of deft comedy of feminine passion - where deep despair meets Wilson Phillips - that a great many people have been waiting for. Now that Wiig and company have built it, will they come?- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 11, 2011
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Damien Chazelle's extraordinary black-and-white retro dream of a feature debut.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 12, 2010
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Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, Shower sparkles with joy.- Entertainment Weekly
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