For 1,584 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Claudia Puig's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 63
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 12
Score distribution:
1,584 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 83
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Timeliness can be tricky to pull off convincingly in movies. It's tough to capture an era while it's still happening, yet Up in the Air does so brilliantly, with wit and humanity.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Up
    Easily the summer's, and probably the year's, most enchanting movie, Up is a buoyant delight.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Claudia Puig 100
    When was the last time you saw a blockbuster that was impeccably executed and simultaneously thought-provoking, audacious and unnerving while consistently being fun and entertaining?
    • Metascore: 86
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Director Danny Boyle's riveting and kaleidoscopic tale, based on Vikas Swarup's debut novel "Q and A," is exquisitely adapted to the screen by Simon Beaufoy.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Claudia Puig 100
    At once futuristic, funny and fantastical.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Claudia Puig 100
    A thoroughly compelling political thriller, at once intellectually challenging and profoundly emotional.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Claudia Puig 100
    This Pride & Prejudice is a stellar adaptation, bewitching the viewer completely and incandescently with an exquisite blend of emotion and wit.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Cinematic poetry in black and white. It also is a deeply affecting tale of the power of resilience and an unflagging sense of humor through the worst of situations
    • Metascore: 77
    • Claudia Puig 100
    That this is Fukunaga's first film is astonishing, given its sharp script, technical proficiency and suspenseful pacing. The ensemble cast is top-notch.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Claudia Puig 100
    It takes a filmmaker possessed of a rare, almost alchemic, blend of maturity, wisdom and artistic finesse to create such an intimate, moving and spare war film as Clint Eastwood has done in Letters From Iwo Jima.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Claudia Puig 100
    The Queen is the kind of thought-provoking, well-written and savvy film that discerning filmgoers long for but rarely get.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Claudia Puig 100
    With its original performances that can't be reduced to simplistic labels, Juno is charming, honest and terrifically acted.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Murderball brilliantly captures the intensity of the little-known athletic competition, offering more intimacy and drama than most Hollywood sports movies.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Claudia Puig 100
    As good as each individual movie is, the third film vaults the work into the stratosphere of classic movies. Key characters are enhanced, new civilizations visited and battles fought more intensely, while feelings and motivations are plumbed more deeply and movingly.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Claudia Puig 100
    An unflinching, powerfully visceral and haunting portrait of the tragic events aboard one of the terrorist-commandeered flights on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Claudia Puig 100
    The best action thriller of the year.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Sugar is that sweetest of films: A sensitive and memorable story that surprises at every turn.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Claudia Puig 100
    In Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman's brilliant transformation into the mannered writer takes your breath away.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Claudia Puig 100
    A masterwork of suspense, romance and political intrigue.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Claudia Puig 100
    The mesmerizing, heart-tugging concert film Heart of Gold confirms Neil Young's stature as a national treasure.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Claudia Puig 100
    It is one of the year's best films and perhaps the finest modern film about World War II.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Claudia Puig 100
    With this, possibly his most subdued film, Almodo´var reinforces his status as one of the most distinctive and talented filmmakers working today.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Though there is plenty of gunplay, this is a wondrously contemplative and poetic saga that offers a fresh and bewitching take on a timeworn genre.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Claudia Puig 100
    It's a rare film that can challenge our minds and rattle our nerves so profoundly. This is unequivocally a thriller for adults. A deftly written, tautly suspenseful and intellectually demanding morality tale.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Claudia Puig 100
    It's hard to imagine how a film built around one-on-one interviews could be entertaining, but Frost/Nixon could not be more enthralling.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Claudia Puig 100
    One of the best films of the year.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Can be taken on many levels, and that's why it works so completely.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Unstintingly explores and exposes excruciating pain, raw grief, ruinous vengeance and life-affirming resilience, creating human portraits that are uncommonly exhilarating in their honesty. This is cinematic art in its highest form.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Both a nostalgic throwback to the silent-picture era and an ultra-modern animated tale, the slyly humorous Triplets of Belleville is artful, engrossing and oddly touching.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Claudia Puig 100
    A rich gem expertly told in a surprisingly scant 95 minutes.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Director Hayao Miyazaki treats his audience as imaginative and intelligent human beings, rather than catering to kids with rote displays of silliness, stunts and scares.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Just as funny, sweet and engaging as the first film starring the big galoot.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Claudia Puig 100
    A monumentally moving experience, from the powerful acting by Javier Bardem to the evocative music, composed by the director, Alejandro Amenábar.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Emerges as an African version of "Schindler's List."
    • Metascore: 90
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Every so often a film gets under our skin with its haunting authenticity, reinforcing our faith in the wonderfully transporting power of cinematic storytelling. Winter's Bone is unquestionably that film.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Claudia Puig 100
    This installment, the best of the three, is everything a movie should be: hilarious, touching, exciting and clever.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Claudia Puig 100
    The film owes much of its success to the inspired pairing of Fincher and Sorkin.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Gosling and Williams have the most palpable chemistry of any screen couple this year, never striking a false note in this achingly tender tale of a love that implodes before our eyes.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Only a truly visionary filmmaker could take a story largely set in a cramped canyon and give it a sense of openness and hope.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Claudia Puig 100
    To induce a state of dread and mesmerize with beauty is a rare, paradoxical achievement.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Let's say it without equivocation: Colin Firth deserves an Oscar for his lead role in The King's Speech as the stammering King George VI.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Claudia Puig 100
    A shape-shifting film, it resembles a poem. At other moments, it is closer to a symphony. Most often, it approximates a fervent prayer.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Claudia Puig 100
    What results is a disarmingly honest tale of affection, both romantic and filial.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Claudia Puig 100
    It's a precarious balance, but Payne blends wit and poignancy so artfully it feels like an exquisitely choreographed dance.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Every performance in the film is flawless.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Doremus' elegant filmmaking is key to the appeal of the film, but it would never work as superbly without the wonderfully natural, believable performances and powerful chemistry of the lead actors.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Drama, comedy, action and romance are intertwined in this gorgeously photographed and brilliantly directed film. Lead performances are thoroughly engaging despite - or perhaps because of - being wordless.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Sophisticated and universal yet deeply intimate, A Separation is an exquisitely conceived family drama that has the coiled power of a top-notch thriller.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Claudia Puig 100
    A superbly crafted and darkly funny real-life political thriller, with pitch-perfect performances.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Claudia Puig 100
    So many movies try to capture human relationships and fail miserably. A few come close. Your Sister's Sister nails it with grace, humor and winning charm.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Claudia Puig 100
    It's equally endearing as a sweetly funny romance between two likable oddballs and as a low-tech time-travel thriller, and has something profound to say about making the most of the present.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Claudia Puig 100
    A musical detective story, this enthralling documentary focuses on a little-known American musician whose haunting voice and poetic lyrics were essentially unknown in his own country, but had a massive impact across the globe.
    • Metascore: 93
    • Claudia Puig 100
    Sarah Polley's memoir is a poignant, funny and engrossing film, challenging our notions of memory and family mythology.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Invictus, which is Latin for "unconquered," gives the poem several meanings in the context of the film. It also applies to Eastwood, who, as one of America's greatest storytellers, finds enthralling tales and fashions them with finesse and an indomitable spirit.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Through stellar performances, clever writing and exquisite cinematography, the story is fresh and thoroughly captivating.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Claudia Puig 88
    A Sundance hit that is both absorbing and bleak, Frozen River is anchored by powerful performances, believable scenarios and excellent writing.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Both a psychological portrait and an exciting action film.
    • Metascore: 81
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    A brilliantly acted and achingly bleak coming-of-age story.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Claudia Puig 88
    While the film is not as resonant as the novel, it is an honorable adaptation, capturing the essence of the bond between father and son.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Claudia Puig 88
    A wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing film.
    • Metascore: 81
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    With its clever faux documentary style, this is the most imaginative science-fiction movie to come along in years.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Every second Helen Mirren is on-screen in The Last Station is a study in peerless talent.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Tarantino exercises both his obsession with vengeance and his fascination with the movies.
    • Metascore: 97
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Depressing and gut-wrenching, but always powerful and gripping.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Like the book, the movie blends a primitive quality with an imaginative artfulness. It also amplifies upon the story's gentle, sly wit.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Claudia Puig 88
    This heart-rending tale also is a mesmerizing one because of several superb performances, particularly those of Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson.
    • Metascore: 98
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Pan's Labyrinth artfully fuses a war film with a family melodrama and a fairy tale. The result is visually stunning and emotionally shattering.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Much like Annie Hall did for a previous generation, (500) Days of Summer may be the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Mostly, it's just wicked fun.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Miyazaki creates fascinating, fluid and whimsical scenarios.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Claudia Puig 88
    A searingly intense and artful tale that grabs hold of the viewer from its jarring and wordless opening scenes and doesn't let go.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Claudia Puig 88
    The Class is a deeply moving film about the challenges of educating children in a complex and often turbulent world.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Claudia Puig 88
    The Coen brothers have fashioned a wry and riveting hybrid of a drama, Western, crime thriller and action film that is as powerful and thought-provoking as it is genre-bending.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Funny People nimbly intersperses humor and reflection. It is a rumination on mortality, fame and life choices, punctuated with Apatow's trademark raunchy humor.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Claudia Puig 88
    The film's score and editing brilliantly heighten the film's energy, keeping the audience somewhat off-kilter and unsure where things are headed.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Flaws are outweighed by Crash's intricate construction and intelligent.
    • Metascore: 96
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Like the best French cuisine, Ratatouille is ambitious and delightful.
    • Metascore: 88
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    Once is a film for anyone who has ever been transported by the power and passion of music.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Blood Diamond is a gem in a season with lots of worthy movies.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Claudia Puig 88
    The Brothers Bloom has it all: charming romance, jaunty adventure story, witty dialogue, gorgeous cinematography and superb performances.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Claudia Puig 88
    What makes the movie so winning are its endearing and relatable characters who spout believable dialogue and amusing banter, steeped in clever pop-culture references and sharp observations of human nature.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Claudia Puig 88
    A movie with memorable and engaging performances.
    • Metascore: 68
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    Though events unravel predictably, the film is profoundly affecting, thanks to a well-written story, rich characters and superlative acting.
    • Metascore: 80
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    It has been a while since we've seen such a consistently funny and entertaining road movie.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Claudia Puig 88
    One of the series's best, with spectacular effects, nuanced performances and witty dialogue.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Babel may be the most ambitious movie of the year, tackling towering communication barriers, global politics and cultural divides in a structurally complex and fascinating narrative.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Claudia Puig 88
    This is the rare movie that blends long scenes of meticulous research with a sweeping story and sustains a feeling of riveting suspense. Zodiac grips you by the throat and doesn't let go.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Claudia Puig 88
    While the film is heart-wrenchingly sad, it also is mordantly funny, uncomfortably prickly and above all, unflinching in its depiction of a believable sibling relationship.
    • Metascore: 73
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    Captivating and multifaceted.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Neil Young once said: It's better to burn out than it is to rust. But moviegoers are lucky Anvil didn't take Young's advice. Who knew heavy metal could seem like fine art when it rusts?
    • Metascore: 88
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    Does the finest job of any film in painting a believable portrait of aging, capturing the sadness, confusion, anxiety and defiance of the early stages of dementia.
    • Metascore: 62
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    Visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing.
    • Metascore: 85
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    This Korean-made film takes the well-worn creature-feature genre and spins it on its head thrillingly.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Claudia Puig 88
    In less capable hands, the movie could have been maudlin. Instead, Hicks and Owen have created an intimate drama told with humor and emotion.
    • Metascore: 67
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    The lack of propriety and solemnity is precisely what makes this comic farce so uproariously funny.
    • Metascore: 56
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    An enchantingly beautiful and moving film.
    • Metascore: 59
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    Buddy movies are a Hollywood staple, but Rory O'Shea Was Here puts a new and profoundly affecting spin on the tired genre.
    • Metascore: 82
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    Powerfully disturbing.
    • Metascore: 63
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    An endearing, occasionally sentimental story told with depth and substance.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Claudia Puig 88
    Even for non-fans, Revenge of the Sith is engrossing, and fans of the series will likely be over the moon -- and into another galaxy -- with this film.
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