For 2,253 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Owen Gleiberman's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 65
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2,253 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 100
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The Wizard of Oz remains the weirdest, scariest, kookiest, most haunting and indelible kid-flick-that's-really-for-adults ever made in Hollywood.
    • Metascore: 97
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    It becomes as savage as ''Reservoir Dogs,'' ''The Killing,'' or any of the other dozens of films over which it still casts a shadow.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    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.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    They're like gods at play, paragons of pure delight, as they mock and feign their way through a universe of mere mortals. To see the movie again is to realize that they were never entirely of this earth and that they never will be.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    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.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Farhadi is no mere formalist. His film is a spiritual investigation into the rise of women and the descent of male privilege in Iran, and a look at the toll that has taken. In a movie of flawless acting, it is Moadi - terse, proud, angry, haunted - who shows us that rare thing: a soul in transition.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Before Midnight confounds expectations in powerful and even haunting ways. It's not just darker than the previous two films. It's bigger, deeper, and more searching. It follows the characters through a tale of embattled love that extends far beyond them.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    In E.T., Spielberg proved a herald of the age when moviegoers would make full-time friends with fantasy, but his most special effect was taking us into ourselves.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Nearly four decades ago, Pontecorvo anatomized the very form of modern terrorist warfare: the hidden cells, the cultish leaders, the brutish cycle of attack and counterattack.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    A rivetingly journalistic account of a scoundrel's rise and fall.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    In Amour, these two actors show us what love is, what it really looks like, and what it may, at its most secret moments, demand.
    • Metascore: 93
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Spielberg restages the Holocaust with an existential vividness unprecedented in any nondocumentary film: He makes us feel as if we're living right inside the 20th century's darkest-and most defining-episode.
    • Metascore: 93
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    By the end, the rug gets pulled out from under us, showing that even the reality we think we see may be an illusion.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The first animated feature produced entirely on computer is a magically witty and humane entertainment, a hellzapoppin fairy tale about a roomful of suburban toys who come to life when humans aren't around.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Toy Story 3 is a salute to the magic of making believe.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    By the time The Crying Game is over, you'll never look at beauty in quite the same way.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    A movie of staggering virtuosity and raw lyric power, a masterpiece of terror, chaos, blood, and courage.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Voluptuously engrossing.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Remains a majestic explosion of pure cinema. It's a hallucinatory poem of fear, projecting, in its scale and spirit, a messianic vision of human warfare stretched to the flashpoint of technological and moral breakdown.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    It's a mad cycle of arrogance and despair, and Bloody Sunday etches it onto your nervous system.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Leaves you shaken and ecstatic at the same time, transported by the vision of a major film artist.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The most excitingly original movie of the year.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The new film, which unfolds in real time over the course of 80 minutes, is a deeper, darker, altogether more memorable experience. It doesn't extend the characters so much as fulfill them.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Crowe, staying close to his memories, has gotten it, for perhaps the first time, onto the screen.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    A beautifully sinister and transfixing entertainment-age daydream.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    An extraordinary film; it may be the most haunting documentary since ''Crumb.''
    • Metascore: 90
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The Passenger isn't finally the masterpiece some have made it out to be, but it retains a singular intrigue: It's the first, and probably the last, thriller ever made about depression.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    An outrageously gorgeous spectacle of balletic aggression. At the same time, it offers something we rarely encounter in a whirling martial-arts extravaganza: a romantic passion that's woven into the very fabric of the action.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    When Baron Cohen works without a net, he flies.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Ferguson spotlights two massive mistakes: the looting that was allowed to continue, destroying Iraqi infrastructure and morale; and--far more revelatory -- the apocalyptically stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army, sending half a million angry soldiers into the streets.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    The result is a playful, elusive movie that isn't so much heartwarming as soul-cleansing.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Days after I saw The Artist, I was still thinking (and grinning) about it, because the movie's real romance is the one between us, the jaded 21st-century audience, and the mechanical innocence of old movies, which here becomes new again.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    By the end, Campion views all her characters with a compassion bordering on grace, a humanity-like her heroine's-as dark, quiet, and enveloping as the ocean.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Until Once, I'm not sure that I'd ever seen a small-scale, nonstylized, kitchen-sink drama in which the songs take on the majesty and devotion of a musical dream.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers in revolt.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Capote honors its subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Mafioso does more than cast its fascinating shadow over "The Godfather." It captures, in a stark yet haunting way, the indelible fact that no man is born a mobster.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Working from a superb script by Paul Attanasio, Redford has caught the way a show like Twenty-One offered a carny-barker version of the American Dream.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Leigh gives you such a strong sense of his characters as fluky individuals that even his most lackadaisical scenes are alive with possibility. What holds Life Is Sweet together is his perception — at once funny and wise — that people, when they change at all, do so in small, nearly imperceptible ways, and that that may be enough.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The richest and most satisfying romantic movie of the year. It's really about two great loves at once -- the love of life and of art -- and the way that Shakespeare, like no writer before him, transformed the one into the other.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Extraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Painfully beautiful autobiographical kaleidoscope.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The supersmart and rousing Moneyball, which may be the best baseball movie since "Bull Durham," is also about talk, but in a coolly heady and original inside-the-front-office way.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The movie is grand and immersive. It plugs us into the final months of Lincoln's presidency with a purity that makes us feel transported as though by time machine.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    Unravels the deceptions -- and the deep dishonor -- that inflated life-size valor into fake superheroism.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Lynch's first movie since ''Blue Velvet'' that truly envelops you in its spell. It's a piece of celestial Americana -- his journey to the light side of the moon.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    A movie of tough excitement and surprise, even grace.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    It's Swank, however, who's the revelation. By the end, her Brandon/Teena is beyond male or female. It's as if we were simply glimpsing the character's soul, in all its yearning and conflicted beauty.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The result is something as original as it is unlikely: a study in grief that is flooded with happiness.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    Ten
    A glimpse into a society that has grown more open, more free, and also more casually selfish in its interpersonal aggression.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    In The Beaches of Agnès, you get addicted to watching Agnès Varda watch the world.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    It was only with the advent of digital technology that the notion of an entire film done in a single take became possible. Mike Figgis got there first with ''Time Code,'' and now the Russian director Alexander Sokurov has brought off a comparably startling feat with Russian Ark.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    Sweaty and claustrophobic, exciting and horrifying at the same time, it never lets us forget we're riding aboard a giant, primitive tin can, a hunk of industrial machinery that mingles the illusion of omnipotence with the reality of a floating prison cell. [Director's Cut]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Brilliant and psychologically transfixing documentary.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Argo is never less than wildly entertaining, but a major part of its power is that it so ominously captures the kickoff to the world we're in now.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The movie is pulp, yet it attains a surprising emotional power-especially when Anjelica Huston's Lilly, a survivor who'll do whatever it takes to master her surroundings, is on-screen.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Still the grandest of all science-fiction movies.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The film is sublime entertainment, at once ticklish and suspenseful, cynical and sincere. By its very existence, Altman's comedy about the death of Hollywood lets you know that movies are still alive and kicking.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    You know you're in the hands of a true filmmaker when you feel invited, at every turn, to share his sense of entrancement. I got that feeling in just about every frame of American Beauty.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    "Andy Warhol" makes you see that beneath the gargoyle hipster mask, he filled that emptiness with an art of transcendent sincerity.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Arenas' life zigzags before us in a manner as heady and unpredictable as it must have felt to the man who lived it.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Mark Wahlberg, in a star-making performance, has the kind of electric ingenuousness that John Travolta did in "Saturday Night Fever."
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Hopping from Germany to Turkey and back again, Akin is out to capture the ways that a globalized world can tear up our hearts, and repair them, too.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    An exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become objects, fans turn into artists, and the whole what's-sincere-and-what's-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Gliding from the physical to the metaphysical, Andersen reveals how films like ''Chinatown'' effectively remade the reality of Los Angeles, replacing history with myth in a way that now anchors the city more than that history itself does.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The triumph of ''Spring, Summer'' is that even those of us who don't happen to be Buddhists can catch a glimpse of ourselves in the spinning wheel of hope, destruction, suffering, and bliss.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    A puzzle of a highly rarefied order. At times it's enthrallingly clever and subtle; at others it's borderline incomprehensible.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    Wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    Young, wizened yet valiant, his voice still braying at the moon, delivers these songs of aging and loss as if caught in a beautiful dream of what lies waiting for him on the other side.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    This story of a 12-year-old boy who drops through the net of middle-class life invites us-in each shimmering frame-to gaze upon the world with a child's freshly awakening vision.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    At times, The Iron Giant is more serene than it needs to be, but it's a lovely and touching daydream.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    Lopez, for all her Latina-siren voluptuousness, has always projected a contained coolness, and this is the first movie in which it fully works for her.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    A work of intimate and wrenching humanity.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    It's a beautiful contraption of a movie, a gothic backwoods fable that uses its naive yet murderous hero to walk a fine line between sentimentality and dread.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    In the Shadow of the Moon finds new resonance in the moment when America redefined progress -- but also when it heeded the siren song of a world so desolate it reminded you what a paradise ours truly is.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    A fascinating film -- more docudrama than biopic.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The unlikeliest enthralling movie to be released so far this year.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Bold and brilliant.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Beautiful, wise, and poker-faced comedy of discombobulation.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Sheridan, however, works with such piercing fervor and intelligence that In the Name of the Father just about transcends its tidy moral design.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The final shot, of the three characters now united, may be the quietest affirmation of life I've ever seen in a movie, and one of the truest.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Another beautifully chiseled piece of filmmaking - sharp, funny, generous, and moving.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    Mesmerizing.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    The enthralling spirit of Dave Chappelle's Block Party, its mood of exuberant democracy, extends to every rap and soul performance in the film.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Creates a flow of symbolism so potent, so transporting in its physicality, that its impact all but transcends its righteous liberal ''meaning.''
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    The Cove is the rare documentary specifically designed as a thriller.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    If this is the sound of a new generation, then it may be the first generation cautious enough to embrace friendship as mightier than love.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Owen Gleiberman 100
    With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please!
    • Metascore: 83
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The clever and infectious reboot of the amazingly enduring sci-fi classic, director J.J. Abrams crafts an origin myth that avoids any hint of the origin doldrums. That's because he rewires us back into the original Star Trek's primal appeal.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    Has the resonance to stand not just as a terrific cartoon but as an emotionally pungent movie.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Owen Gleiberman 91
    The writer-director, Peter Sollett, cast the film with kids from his own neighborhood, who give themselves over to the camera with a spirit of improvised play that morphs into vivid, layered acting.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Owen Gleiberman 83
    A fascinating and in many ways tragic documentary, takes us back to one of the high-water marks of the apes-are-people-too era.
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