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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Panic
    In the full-house ensemble of Henry Bromell's Panic, Neve Campbell is the wild card.
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  2. The Aviator
    If you didn't know that Martin Scorsese made The Aviator, the enthralling new adventure-biography of Howard Hughes, you might think it was the calling card of a neophyte visual genius.
  3. Rescue Dawn
    The scenes between Dengler and Duane, between a force of nature and a force of reason, are the real heart of the film.
  4. Happy Feet
    Let's just say this is a perfect film for penguin lovers who also are devoted members of the Green party - and leave it at that.
  5. The Weather Underground
    Offers a welcome perspective, reminding us that extremism in the name of a values system is nothing new -- not even on these shores.
  6. The Virgin Suicides
    It gets under your skin and into your head, and you don't want it to leave.
  7. Our Song
    The movie's triumph is that we experience the ending, in which the three girls go mostly separate ways, not as a defeat but as a transition still open to possibilities.
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  8. Pollock
    Truth is, one can probably tell as much about Jackson Pollock the man by looking at his paintings than by watching this movie.
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  9. Shanghai Triad
    Imagine "The Godfather" through the eyes of a 13-year-old boy just in from the hinterlands of rural Jersey and his dad's pepper farm, and you have an idea of the originality, and the oddity, of the film. [16 Feb 1996]
    • Baltimore Sun
  10. Open Hearts
    It's a soaper with a high grade of imported soap.
  11. 8 Mile
    A star is born in 8 Mile, all right, but his name is Mekhi Phifer.
  12. Once Were Warriors
    It's a fine, fierce and nearly unforgettable movie.
  13. Shut Up & Sing
    The Dixie Chicks may never regain their prolonged eminence on the country charts. However, the art and entertainment value of this movie (and of their latest album) is off the charts in the best way.
  14. The Cockettes
    The Cockettes is a grand place to visit, even for those who wouldn't want to live there.
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  15. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    The offhand wit and casual self-revelation of Johnston's best words draw you deeper into the mysteries of his character. Feuerzeig is a music-lover to his bones.
  16. Fat Girl
    Like "Anais," the only surprises Breillat has in store for us are bad ones. In the willfully perverse final act, she delivers a sadistic blow to the audience -- with a sledgehammer.
  17. Grindhouse
    What's not to love?
  18. The War Tapes
    It's an experience that blows your mind, clears it and educates it.
  19. Jerry Maguire
    Let's get it out, loud and clear: Jerry Maguire is not a sports movie. It's a stealth chick movie, wrapped in a swaddling of jock stuff so that it gets through guy radar without setting off the missile defenses.
  20. Shanghai Noon
    The martial arts wizard shows a nice feel for the Butch and Sundance thing.
  21. Scratch
    Scratch will make even the uninitiated believe in the joy and propulsive power of hip-hop.
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  22. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    It lacks even Tarantino-esque vitality. It moves more like a busted concertina.
  23. Water
    It's infuriating in more ways than one. Yet it's also somehow touching in its melange of melodrama and modernism.
  24. The Rape of Europa
    With Joan Allen bringing a crisp intelligence to the sharp, unsentimental narration, it's both awful and fascinating to follow Hitler's warped growth from frustrated painter to self-appointed arbiter of Germanic art.
  25. Italian for Beginners
    Italian for Beginners, on its own small scale, is a one-of-a-kind movie: a baggy-pants spiritual comedy.
    • Baltimore Sun
  26. Monsoon Wedding
    The beauty, vibrancy and complexity of Indian culture is on addictive display in Monsoon Wedding. If only there were more to the film.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bukowski: Born into This
    Some of the most affecting moments in the film show Bukowski walking the streets of his Los Angeles, a barren suburban hell, as he reads his poems and the words appear on and then fade from the screen.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Career Girls
    The coincidences pile up in Career Girls, but by then Leigh has involved us so fully in the emotional lives of his characters that the contrivances are easily dismissed.
  29. Kandahar
    What proves the validity of Kandahar is that, by the end, all these scenes are human ruins of the same nightmare world.
  30. Adventureland
    A bittersweet joy. Its humor and romance are refreshing because the writer-director, Greg Mottola, realizes that maturity is a two-steps-forward, one-step-backward process.
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