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For 7,948 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 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: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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  1. The Green Mile
    There's almost too much there, but the three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms.
  2. My First Mister
    Risks seeming too earnestly therapeutic for its own good. But what makes My First Mister a successful feature directing debut for Lahti is the emotional veracity it summons.
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  3. Millennium Mambo
    If Millennium Mambo is the only chance to see Hou Hsaio-hsien's work at a movie theater, you'd better take it.
  4. Iron Monkey
    They're as special as special effects get.
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  5. Last Life in the Universe
    There is no plot in Pen-ek Ratanaruang's exceedingly mellow situation comedy, and that's preferred, frankly.
  6. Bad Boys II
    Bay's movie is also a confident mega-production that feels it doesn't need to lean on its visual frills if it has Smith and Lawrence -- it's a natural-born buddy flick.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Sleepy Time Gal
    Stunning performances help make The Sleepy Time Gal a thoughtful, moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty.
  8. Shadow Magic
    Shadow Magic isn't interested in psychology or character study. It's a series of tableaux and on that level succeeds admirably.
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Leaves
    Where most documentaries offer us facts to hold on to, his (McElwee's) are obsessed with the mystery of things we don't know and never will.
  10. The Station Agent
    Mercifully, The Station Agent is not about how these misfits heal one another -- they're not that miserable, for one thing. It's about the unlikely ways proximity, need, and coincidence create friendships.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Solaris
    To appreciate Solaris, the new film by Steven Soderbergh, it helps to downshift your moviegoing metabolism to a level approaching the cryogenically frozen: The movie's that cerebral, that contemplative, that slow.
  12. Calle 54
    Filled with affection and verve and will do very nicely until the next shipment of Latin jazz comes along.
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  13. Glengarry Glen Ross
    If Foley's strategies don't quite regenerate the caged-animal urgency of the play, the tradeoff of some verbal fireworks for piercing closeups isn't all bad. [16 Sep 1992, p.72]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Runaway Jury
    The closest cinematic approximation to a beach novel that money and skill can buy.
  15. Shallow Hal
    You can't help cheering on Shallow Hal. That and the fact that it's not at all politically correct. It's something better. It's big-hearted, and it's funny.
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  16. Storytelling
    Cleverly mocks the modern chronicler, raising questions that linger long after the film is finished.
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  17. Go
    "Pulp Fiction" wannabes don't get much slicker or edgier than Go.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bon voyage
    This is a film lover's film, and as if to underscore the point, Bon Voyage opens and closes in a movie theater.
  19. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    There's nothing major here, certainly nothing on the order of my favorite among Allen's retro workouts of the past decade, ''Bullets Over Broadway.'' But it's entertaining all the same.
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  20. Carandiru
    Angry and tragic, Carandiru is finally, in its own way, uplifting.
  21. State and Main
    Good clean dirty fun.
  22. Beyond the Mat
    Wrestling gets in America's face and Blaustein gets in wrestling's face. It's a fascinating tango.
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  23. Charlie's Angels
    A babe-athon, pure and simple.
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  24. The Whole Nine Yards
    Light on its feet and reveling in its deviousness, it stays one step ahead of us .
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    ''Bonjour" is especially lucky in having Shlomi Bar-Dayan, the 16-year-old misfit of the title, played by a young actor named Oshri Cohen, who's able to convey the impossibility of ever making sense of the world with a single bruised gaze.
  26. Secret Window
    A jokey, junky potboiler.
  27. Wattstax (re-released)
    Wattstax is a disorienting and ironic moviegoing experience. It's a film about the curative powers of rhythm-and-blues music that sets out to frustrate your sense of rhythm in its insistence on the blues.
  28. Antwone Fisher
    Corny. But it's corny in a way that a Hollywood movie about a boy who just wants to go home ought to be corny. Plus when it's done with this much care, corny works for me.
  29. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    Despite its conceptual shortfall, is worth seeing, if only to update yourself on what can emerge from a keyboard these days.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Car
    It's that central dance between teacher and student that makes the movie both hard to watch and worth your attention - a subtle waltz of power in which it's difficult to tell who's leading until too late.
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