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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 Mighty Quinn
    If The Mighty Quinn is slight, it's also very easy to take. And its soundtrack is a treat. [17 Feb 1989, p.90]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    Because the "Harold & Kumar'' universe seesaws so delicately between the subversively smart and the ineffably stupid, even the lamest jokes get a witty spin - and even the cleverest ideas can turn into groaners.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shiva Baby
    From its title on down to the rugelach, Shiva Baby is an instant classic in the Jewish comedy of mortification, a genre that combines hilarity, anxiety, resentment and schmaltz.
  4. Carandiru
    Angry and tragic, Carandiru is finally, in its own way, uplifting.
  5. The Big Lebowski
    The Big Lebowski isn't quite up to the level of the Coen brothers' best films - "Miller's Crossing," "Fargo" and "Barton Fink." But second-level Coen brothers can be funnier than first-level almost everybody else. [6 March 1998, p.D5]
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  6. Unfinished Song
    [Terence Stamp] and Vanessa Redgrave, as well as supporting actors Christopher Eccleston and Gemma Arterton, raise Paul Andrew Williams’s entry in the golden age genre from mawkish to genuinely heartwarming.
  7. Up at the Villa
    Is a chamber romance, in that there's nothing grand or sweeping about it, but it's got all the style it needs to go with those glorious Tuscan settings.
  8. Wonderland
    Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it.
  9. The Whole Nine Yards
    Light on its feet and reveling in its deviousness, it stays one step ahead of us .
  10. Everest
    Director Baltasar Kormákur (“2 Guns”) and his cast craft a lean narrative tone that humanizes the action without an excess of gloss.
  11. Lethal Weapon 2
    Sitting through Lethal Weapon 2 is like dating a jackhammer. It's a slick, cynical, high-speed assembly line of car chases, jokes, sex, explosions and blood. [41 Jul 1989, p.41]
    • Boston Globe
  12. Wilde
    Stylish, sad, opulent, brilliant, and clear-eyed, Wilde does justice to its complex subject. It should stand as the definitive biofilm for years to come. [05 Jun 1998, p.D6]
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  13. Timecrimes
    Vigalondo is only partially capable of building suspense (the film's latter stages contain one knot too many); his achievement owes more to his imagination than his pop craftsmanship.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eye in the Sky
    Its strength and limitation is that it’s a gimmick that works.
  15. The Wrecking Crew
    There’s a similar shared joy among the participants, a similar sense of discovery for the viewer, and, of course, a killer soundtrack.
  16. Siddhartha (re-release)
    Apologies to Conrad Rooks, but the only reason his 1972 film, Siddhartha, is getting a 30th-anniversary rerelease is the appeal of seeing Sven Nykvist's amazing cinematography restored to its full splendor.
  17. Creed III
    The backstory between Donny and Dame is too heavy and complex for a movie that aims to be a crowd-pleaser, but Majors and Jordan do their best to balance the material.
  18. The Other Side of Hope
    More than an hour passes before Khaled and Wikström’s stories intersect, and though it would be an exaggeration to say each redeems the other, in this film the other side of hope is not despair, but decency.
  19. Blue Beetle
    Blue Beetle is a watchable time-waster made better by the actors and the cinematography by Pawel Pogorzelski.
  20. Frozen
    Frozen could also leave its mark as the next step in the Disney Princess feminist revisionism championed by last year’s “Brave.” Where that film staunchly pushed a men-don’t-define-me theme throughout, here it’s the requisite fairy tale ending that gets tweaked.
  21. Bert Stern: Original Madman
    An effusive, sad, visually gorgeous, and illuminating portrait of the artist.
  22. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Small, sharply written, incisive comedy examines, with smarts and style and sexiness, the very nature of modern romance - gay, straight, and in between.
  23. She's the Man
    A screwball comedy that made me wish I were 13 again, because this is precisely the kind of movie I would have gone nuts for in the ninth grade.
  24. Mickey Blue Eyes
    It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.
  25. I Went Down
    I Went Down is an offbeat Irish gangster movie that overcomes its meandering nature with engaging performances, an avoidance of formula, and, above all, its characters' way of making us take everything personally - as they certainly do. [1 July 1998, p.F4]
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  26. Food, Inc.
    The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless.
  27. Red Army
    Fetisov, who looks like a cross between Sam Neill and Klaus Kinski, is a compelling figure. He has an unmistakable gravitas. He’s just a hockey player in the way that Reagan was just an actor. In fact, Fetisov is a member of Russia’s parliament and previously served as minister of sport. If all that weren’t enough, he has a winningly dry sense of humor.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Afternoon Delight
    The results feel a little life lesson-y but also well-earned and well-observed, and Hahn takes advantage of a rare lead role to locate both the ugliness and beauty in her character.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Becoming Jane
    Anne Hathaway's Jane is headstrong and clever, balanced and true.
  30. Minority Report
    Cruise will never be a master thespian, but there's no one better at putting across the charisma of control, and the opening sequence of ''Report'' is an astonishingly fluid demonstration of his gifts.
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