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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. Family Law
    This is a comedy made for people who think, who like smart talk and who, like the Perelmans, know the score.
  2. Shattered Glass
    Quite entertaining.
  3. Lost Embrace
    Seems small in subject and scope, but it's large in spirit and implication.
  4. Locke
    Twenty minutes in, Hardy notwithstanding, you might be tempted to bail on Locke. Don't.
  5. The Devil Wears Prada
    It's an occasion for Streep to play against a stereotype, and win. It's a rout, in fact.
  6. Chill Factor
    It's one of those movies that are unfortunately so technically well done, it's hard to tune out on the senseless story.
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  7. Space Jam
    Is it cute? Yes. Is it a crowd-pleaser? Yup. Is it classic? Nope. (Though it could have been.)
  8. Darkest Hour
    Darkest Hour pulls from both extremes of Oldman’s prodigious but often unexploited skill set, the subtlety as well as the flamboyance.
  9. The Corruptor
    At this point, "The Corruptor" looks as if it's going to be just a rehash of an early Dirty Harry movie, but it surprises by taking us inside Chinatown, where we discover just how sinister and elaborate the relationships between the police and the businessmen can be. [12 Mar 1999]
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  10. Hamlet
    The song remains the same, but it’s all in the way you play it. Karia, Ahmed and Lesslie prove that "Hamlet" still hits after all these years.
  11. Madonna: Truth or Dare
    As she says in one of the film's more blatant thesis statements: "I'm not the world's best singer or best dancer, but that's not the point. I'm interested in pushing buttons." Madonna's doing just that in Truth or Dare, but what she chooses to reveal remains far more revealing - and entertaining - than almost any comparable self-portrait. [17 May 1991, p.C]
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  12. Dead & Buried
    A town where tourists and hapless visitors are murdered, and the dead are revived by a big band-loving mortician, descends into gore and madness. [16 Mar 2007, p.C5]
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  13. Magnificent Obsession
    Loony, but spellbinding. [28 Apr 2006, p.C9]
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  14. Vita & Virginia
    This peek into a famous love story makes the audience a participant in the affair, inspiring questions of perspective and truth in love and art, where the only truth worth anything is one deeply felt.
  15. Emmanuel's Gift
    An inspirational movie about a inspiring figure: Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah of Ghana.
  16. Tears of the Black Tiger
    The result is something so old it's new, so corny it's funny. And while Tears of the Black Tiger is nothing more than entertaining, at least it's that.
  17. Paprika
    We've gotten perhaps too used to the computerized wizardry of our own cartoon features; Kon, like Miyazaki shows us some older ways that can still transfix us.
  18. Ghost in the Shell
    If you want a list of comics-derived spectacles less successful and worthy than this one, "Suicide Squad" heads the list. And that's the only list it'll ever head.
  19. White Material
    Its dramatic vexations are at war with Denis' prodigious visual skill. And the fight, ultimately, rewards the viewer.
  20. Imelda
    When a filmmaker can get Imelda Marcos, once one of the 10 richest women in the world, to pull out a Sharpie and draw a Pac-Man, she's alright by me.
  21. She's Gotta Have It
    Featuring an all-black cast, this little film is a revelation, primarily because it provides black faces with the most natural dialogue they've had in years. She`s Gotta Have It is neither a crime story nor a heavy message movie, and the conversations in it are therefore free of the shackles of most minority-oriented stories.
  22. Frida
    What “Frida” does, it does well. It also does too much, probably, crowding its subject with expressive add-ons.
  23. Dora and the Lost City of Gold
    The action in this live-action adaptation is sanded down and decidedly safe. Bobin loses the geographical thread in the film’s climax in and around Parapata, but it’s never about the visual thrills, it’s about the girl at the center of it all.
  24. Primary Colors
    It's a winner with flaws.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Only Human
    The film's snappy action and frank sexuality are reminiscent of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," while the mordant humor and conflicting identities are vintage Allen.
  26. Sicko
    Sicko doesn't formulate a way out of this heartless craps game we're playing. It is, however, a very entertaining position paper, and a reminder that we should do better by more of our citizenry.
  27. The Zookeeper's Wife
    The film's flaws in pacing and suspense are easily overlooked in the shadow of Chastain's moving performance, as well as the performances of those around her. Caro unspools an evergreen tale about the clarifying power of empathy to diffuse fear and hatred.
  28. Little
    The message itself is poignant, and never gets lost in the antics or humor.
  29. Inception
    The film is Nolan's labyrinth all the way, and it's gratifying to experience a summer movie with large visual ambitions and with nothing more or less on its mind than (as Shakespeare said) a dream that hath no bottom.
  30. Fluke
    What charmed me most about the movie was the interaction of the dogs themselves. [02 Jun 1995, p.J]
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