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For 7,950 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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  1. Mufasa: The Lion King
    The voiceover work is good and, as far as franchise entries go, it’s quite watchable.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Roses and Petrol
    Because "Petrol" is so grim, its few moments of repentance and reconciliation don't feel as contrived as they might otherwise; if any film has earned the right to be sentimental, it's this one.
  3. Dung che sai duk
    "Ashes of Time" was always more a work of philosophy than pure entertainment, and a decade and a half later it still is.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Chance Harvey
    Harvey is so thin it barely registers as a movie, yet these two actors - British apples and American oranges in their respective approaches to character - almost miraculously weave something memorable out of nothing much.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fairy
    The Fairy may be as close as we'll ever get to a live-action cartoon.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Year
    A shamelessly enjoyable retread, an ode to la belle vie that has been well turned on a factory spindle.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Italian
    It's foreign, it's inspiring, it has an adorably resourceful kid; it depicts grinding misery in a land far from West Newton, and it holds out the possibility of clambering over all that misery to attain your dream.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
    How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World has a visual sumptuousness and a fluid agility that make it worth experiencing even if you’re not paying attention to the story. It moves the way you imagine a flying dragon might.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Disgrace
    It’s a harsh experience, at times engrossing, at other times stiff and unconvincing, but it asks a necessary question: What happens to the country’s whites after white rule is gone?
  10. Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    In the film’s sharpest visual sequence, they land in ancient Egypt, with the filmmakers entertainingly cribbing from “Indiana Jones” and “The Wizard of Oz” to get them out of tight spots.
  11. The Monkey's Mask
    Less elliptical and more down-and-dirty than Lang's interesting debut film, ''The Well,'' this one tumbles through Sydney's academic and alternative poetry circles and is built around a lesbian private eye.
    • Boston Globe
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Street Fight
    Properly told, political underdog stories are as compelling as pratfalls from banana peels are funny. Each is timeless and carries an integrity impervious to cynicism.
  13. Philadelphia
    Phildelphia, with its velvety textures and rhythms and heads-up soundtrack, does a good job of at least putting the topic on the mainstream table. And it's dramatically potent as well as historically important. [14 Jan 1994, p.73]
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  14. Kalifornia
    Lewis delivers an Oscar-worthy performance as the child-woman who wears tube tops and polyester and matter-of-factly tells the other woman that Early doesn't really whip her. [03 Sep 1993]
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  15. Brooklyn Castle
    The biggest complaint about Brooklyn Castle is that there's not enough of her. A presence as magnetic as Vicary's demands more screen time. How did she come to chess (a notoriously male-dominated game)? How did she come to 318?
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sorry We Missed You
    Some of Loach’s movies have breathing room, but this isn’t one of them. That’s a feature, not a bug. Sorry We Missed You depicts the vise into which many people are forced to put head, hearts, and lives in order to pay the rent and feed their families. It dramatizes a daily sprint up an escalator that pulls workers backwards.
  17. Yossi & Jagger
    What the movie lacks in ambition, originality, and grit, it makes up for in pure feeling.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tully
    Theron is so good that when Tully climaxes by revealing whole new depths to her character, an audience can’t help but feel cheated. Maybe the rosy, complacent final scenes can fool the filmmakers, but not us, and certainly, one senses, not Theron. The movie’s over, but it feels like the star’s just getting started.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Off and Running
    A patient, slightly stiff, often intensely moving portrait of a girl who believes her choices are literally black and white.
  20. The Source Family
    More than just a footnote to a wayward period of cultural history, The Source Family portrays an American type, the transcendent charlatan, a latter-day Gatsby, not of material riches but of the soul.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sleepless Night
    It's fast, lean, satisfying, and forgettable; nothing special, really, until you realize that the movies have largely lost the knack for brisk mayhem like this.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dolemite Is My Name
    Murphy grounds the film, in part because the actor has the gift of motormouth hustle himself, but also because he gets the anger at the core of Rudy Ray Moore — the rage to be noticed that propelled Moore away from Arkansas, an abusive stepfather, and the life of a black sharecropper.
  23. Goosebumps
    This feature adaptation of kid-lit author R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror-comedy series is out to thrill fans with a story that’s just as obsessively invested as they are, right down to Black’s meta casting as Stine himself.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chasing Ice
    Orlowski does share Balog's smoldering rage at a society that refuses to face the consequences of its actions, and that rage forms the necessary spine of Chasing Ice. This is an agit-doc with no apologies and a lot of sorrow.
  25. Geronimo: An American Legend
    It's a handsomely crafted revisionist Western that effectively destigmatizes the legendary Apache raider, reveling as much in political correctness as in its sunset-tinted red sandstone. [10 Dec 1993, p.53]
    • Boston Globe
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    The film's no masterpiece, but at least you're in the hands of people who know what they're doing.
  27. The Day He Arrives
    The verb in the title of The Day He Arrives doesn't refer so much to a traveler reaching a destination as to a man finding himself - or hoping to.
  28. What Planet Are You From?
    The film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Orfeu
    A heady, sometimes blurry combination of fable, legend, and social-political commentary.
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Motel
    Kang balances the uproariously comic with the profoundly sad, and the two tones amplify each other with subtlety.
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