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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Amores Perros
    As bloody as any recent film. But it's shot through with a harsh, stony humor that's invigorating enough to be regarded as a slap back at death.
    • Boston Globe
  2. The Gleaners & I
    Varda's charmingly eccentric amble, wise in its seeming waywardness.
    • Boston Globe
  3. Snow Falling on Cedars
    The kind of richly layered film that Hollywood seldom attempts, much less brings off. But it's more than brought off here in grand, solid style and beautifully crafted detail.
  4. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Bernal, with his sweet man-boy looks, makes Padre Amaro's portrait of corruption all the more flabbergasting in its irony.
  5. L.I.E.
    Superior and original filmmaking. You won't be able to take your eyes off it.
    • Boston Globe
  6. Grisbi (re-release)
    Roughly translated, Touchez pas au Grisbi means ''don't touch the loot.'' But in literal terms, this film version of Albert Simonin's blockbuster really couldn't care less who ends up with the cash.
  7. Outside Providence
    It's much closer to a European film in sensibility than to one of Hollywood's factory products.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    It is Bowie's alter ego as the androgynous Martian rock star that remains, 30 years later, his most enduring artistic achievement.
  9. Billy Elliot
    Bell is utterly persuasive as the boy literally yearning to leap beyond the oppressively apparent confines of his world.
    • Boston Globe
  10. AKA
    The triptych is a device but never a gimmick: three windows into one fractured soul.
  11. The Circle
    Such moral outrage, apart from the artistry in which it is embedded, tells us that the forces of change are stirring in Iran.
    • Boston Globe
  12. Cinemania
    What Christlieb and Kijak do so well is keeping these folks from not seeming like loons.
  13. The Pledge
    In its dark, relentless, devastatingly ironic way, The Pledge is an exhilarating movie, partly because it isn't afraid to be genuinely challenging.
  14. Tape
    Smart, unpredictable, and alive with the energies of actors who clearly are enjoying being stretched by their material.
    • Boston Globe
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nicholas Nickleby
    A rambunctious joy.
  16. Last Orders
    Richly textured, beautifully acted.
  17. Piccadilly [re-release]
    As casually insensitive and careless as you might expect from a film of this era, but it's also surprisingly crafty about finding ways to incite discussion
  18. Only the Strong Survive
    The movie is the product of his (Friedman) big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom (and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I might add) has eluded.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Life
    A straight-up drama and thus the only film in "The Trilogy" not forced into a genre straitjacket -- suspense thriller ("On the Run") or farce ("An Amazing Couple") -- "Life" is also the finest of the three. This isn't a coincidence.
  20. The Deep End
    A perfect example of a small, well-made, and (in its central role) rivetingly acted film.
    • Boston Globe
  21. Tumbleweeds
    You'll care what happens in this film with more than enough freshness and originality to avoid succumbing to girls-on-the-run cliches.
  22. Blackboards
    Like so much Iranian cinema, Blackboards is a work of lyrical propaganda. But its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism, and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible, almost mystical work.
  23. Shanghai Noon
    There's plenty of invention and exuberant vigor in the chopsocky, and Wilson's cool, ironic drollery provides the perfect foil for Chan's heroics.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Secret Lives of Dentists
    May not be the best movie ever made about the perils of family life, but it is among the most ruthlessly comic.
  25. The Fugitive
    A hugely entertaining adrenaline rush of a thriller that does a couple of simple things right. That's all it needs to do. First, it casts Harrison Ford in the title role of convicted wife-murderer Richard Kimble, ever scrambling forward, one step ahead of pursuing cops, while hunting the real killer. Second, it never stops. [6 Aug 1993, p.41]
    • Boston Globe
  26. Kippur
    A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace.
    • Boston Globe
  27. Daughter from Danang
    That commendable sense of balance, which Dolgin and Franco use to approach this family reunion, ultimately makes the finished product devastating.
  28. Under the City's Skin
    More a bleak docu-melodrama than an esoteric morality play.
  29. The Spanish Prisoner
    It's a treat to encounter the deadpan light-handedness with which Mamet goes about his business.
  30. Nurse Betty
    It's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances, and offbeat fun.
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