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For 7,603 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,107 out of 7603
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7603
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7603
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  1. Carlito's Way
    Big and violent, dark and operatic, both stingingly real and maddeningly overblown. But what gives it resonance is Pacino's performance.
  2. The Edge
    As an adventure movie, it makes good on its promise and its title. It carries us to the edge. [26 Sep 1997, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 66 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Jackass Number Two
    There's no plot here; like the MTV show that spawned it, this movie is just a progression of increasingly disgusting and/or dangerous stunts.
  4. Talk Radio
    The film has a purposefully repellent but fascinating quality. Bogosian`s performance, based on his stage play, is spectacularly demented.
  5. Margot at the Wedding
    Baumbach’s achievement stings. It also has the sureness of tone and direction of a Chekhov story.
  6. Roofman
    Roofman is predominantly a one-man showcase for the full range of Tatum’s talents, but the entire ensemble is crucial for any good caper.
  7. Scream
    Pretty run-of-the-mill stuff. [20 December 1996, Friday, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Maelstrom
    Another of those excellent foreign films that sometimes slip though cracks, considered too strange or eccentric for domestic tastes. Strange it is, but delightfully so
  9. Kick-Ass
    It may well be a hit, but me, I'm waiting for "Iron Man 2."
  10. King of New York
    Walken seems to run on his own alternative fuel source - he's always easier to observe than to understand - which makes him the natural villainous hero for Abel Ferrara's seedy King of New York, a film more interested in leaving impressions than spinning a smooth narrative. [11 Dec 1990, p.9]
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  11. Mean Girls
    Though not a perfect comedy, it manages to be quite often laugh-out-loud funny. The film's strong cast, including scene-stealing "SNL"er Tim Meadows as the school principal, also helps smooth out most of the rough edges.
  12. Transamerica
    At its best, Transamerica made me laugh and feel for Bree. At its worst, it made me cringe at the potential creepiness of its central relationship.
  13. The Tailor of Panama
    Like a Bach toccata or a frosty drink on a sunlit veranda, a first-class movie spy thriller can offer one of life's cooler, more elegant treats. The Tailor of Panama fits that category.
  14. Moulin Rouge!
    A landmark musical movie -- controversial, mercurial, even cheeky. It's the kind of film that wildly divides audiences and critics -- people tend to either love or hate it. I loved it.
  15. Notorious C.H.O.
    Establishes the comedian as just that: notorious -- in all the best ways outlaw comedy can make you a star.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Philadelphia
    Even with its imperfections, Philadelphia is still an entertaining and moving film. Although it preaches, it also forces us to look at ourselves. [21 Jan 1994, p.N]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Sidewalk Stories
    Too sympathetic to really dislike, but too benign to leave an impression. [05 Jan 1990, p.G7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Dumb Money
    If there’s anything rarer than a film about money that truly makes us think, it’s a film about politics that makes us feel like there’s something to it beyond money, and luck.
  19. Miami Vice
    It's refreshing to hear some old-fashioned percussive tension in service of a director who knows what he's doing. Even when the screenwriter is losing his way.
  20. Skinamarink
    It’s a low-fi rumination on inexplicable and gradually more threatening loneliness — the sort of childhood trauma typically explained to death by horror movies less interesting than this one.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fun & Fancy Free
    What makes this video really interesting and superb entertainment for viewers 5 and older is that it blends animation with live action and carries two separate, full animated features with separate human narrators. [07 Aug 1997, p.9B]
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  22. Paris, je t'aime
    The masterpiece of the bunch is the last, wonderful piece by Alexander Payne ("14eme Arrondissement").
  23. La Vie en Rose
    Wildly uneven.
  24. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    At its best, Hobbit 2, which carries the subtitle The Desolation of Smaug, invites comparisons to Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" threesome.
  25. Mid90s
    Vivid in bits and pieces, Mid90s feels like a research scrapbook for a movie, not a movie. The more Hill throws you around in the name of creating a harsh, immediate impression, the more the impressions blur.
  26. Swimming with Sharks
    There is much that is hilarious about this bleak house of horrors, based on the real-life traumas of writer-director George Huang. Most of the humor surfaces early--including a clever opening restaurant scene--as Buddy (Kevin Spacey, in a terrific performance) gives his new assistant, Guy (Frank Whaley), a harsh lesson in subjugation. [12 May 1995, p.H]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. The Amazing Spider-Man
    When a new actor slips on the Spandex for a superhero franchise reboot, we should, you know, notice. And we do with Andrew Garfield.
  28. Nixon
    It's a superb, thoughtful drama that doesn't claim to be a documentary and shouldn't be judged as such. [22 Dec 1995, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. A Lion Is in the Streets
    James Cagney had his crack at a Huey Long-like character in this overlooked 1953 feature directed by Raoul Walsh; the film suffers from a near-complete lack of originality but Cagney and Walsh, here as always ("The Roaring Twenties," "White Heat"), strike some sparks together. [01 Nov 1992, p.15C]
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  30. Premium Rush
    Premium Rush is great fun - nimble, quick, the thinking person's mindless entertainment.
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