Philadelphia Inquirer's Scores

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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
4176 movie reviews
  1. Boasts rich texture, sly vision and rueful humor.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Looks as if was cobbled together from stuff hanging around the cutting room at MTV.
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  2. I nodded off watching Just Visiting.
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  3. Transports us to a world that still had a capacity for awe, and that's the core of its charm.
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  4. Forget the end and there is much to enjoy here.
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  5. An overpowering and original piece of bravura filmmaking that constitutes one of the most breathtaking and impressive directing debuts in years.
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  6. Yummy and weightless.
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  7. An altogether enjoyable ride.
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  8. A picture that's pleasantly forgettable.
  9. A feeling man's buddy story that's user-friendly to men and women alike.
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  10. Crudely entertaining comedy.
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  11. It's getting tiresome, this stuff.
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  12. As an exploration of a man who really did take the road less traveled, the film is fascinating.
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  13. War is hell, war is cruelty, war is toil and trouble, war is just a shot away. But is war a snooze? Well, by the time Enemy at the Gates has run its course — it sure seems that way.
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  14. Terrifically satisfying film.
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  15. Amusing, compelling and technologically fascinating tale.
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  16. It's a charmer.
  17. A charmer.
  18. Less the blistering satire it imagines itself than a blustering, bloody, blundering melodrama about bottom feeders nibbling each other.
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  19. At once guileless and profound.
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  20. If Blow Dry isn't a rousing triumph on the order "of The Full Monty" and "Brassed Off," Rickman, Richardson and Nighy make sure it's a winning film.
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  21. So suggestively atmospheric is Amelia Vincent's cinematography and Robin Standefer's art direction that mood -- and of course Jackson's performance -- sustains the movie.
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  22. Little gem of a movie.
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  23. Individual moments in Hit and Runway are quite funny, but as a send-up of action-movie mindlessness, the movie is sometimes as dumb as its targets.
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  24. This violently comic caper has some spunky charm going for it -- but has a lot of self-consciously hip, studied wackiness going against it.
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  25. If there were a truth-in-titling law, the movie would be called "3000 Bullets to Brain Death."
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  26. Feels like it's been homogenized and Hollywoodized to death.
  27. Quiet, finely etched and beautifully acted by Dina Korzun and the wise-beyond-his-years Artiom Strelnikov.
  28. Remarkable movie.
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  29. Fairy-tale-like musing on true love in cynical times.
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