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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. Stake Land
    It is a film of many ploooooches, meaning: stake in the chest? Ploooooch goes the sound effect. Yank it out again: ploooooch. Wipe. Rinse. Repeat.
  2. Marshall
    A workmanlike but vividly acted courtroom drama.
  3. Splice
    The sexual component to Splice pushes the story in provocatively eerie directions.
  4. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The Zellweger-Firth-Grant triangle works as irresistibly as Hepburn-Grant-Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story."
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Barbershop
    Entertaining, surprisingly well-written and often rowdily amusing picture. It is predictable in many ways but also full of heart, humor and personality.
  6. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    A children's movie done with genuinely youthful spirit and an easy self-kidding mastery of its own high-tech gadgetry.
  7. Heist
    Mamet takes exactly those qualities that we most prize in genre movies -- characters, cleverness and high style -- and refines them to a high shine.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Epidemic
    Epidemic will never be confused with von Trier's great films. But it is an intriguing introduction to his later cinematic obsessions.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
    One of the last and best of the Hammer vampire flicks has Lee doing his umpteenth turn as Transylvania's thirstiest and most sexually active aristocrat. [05 Jul 1985, p.47C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Elf
    Elf, formulaic but lovable, is essentially "Big" in pointy shoes.
  11. The Way Back
    The result is a brisk trot through a story that is, at heart, a tough slog.
  12. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    More often then not, the relationships and performances are strong and moving, with an effect both breezy-fun and profound.
  13. Husbands
    One of the most honest movies ever made about male friendship. [13 Feb 1998, p.N]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Harriet
    Harriet is a deeply spiritual film that asks the audience to take Harriet’s experience and religious beliefs at face value, but it’s fascinating to watch how Harriet’s faith in God evolves and expands to include faith in herself and her own power.
  15. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    Noa is a genuinely touching creation, no little thanks to the expressive pain and fear and pathos finessed, artfully, by Teague in the motion capture stage.
  16. Cobb
    Jones lets it all loose here. It's the performance of a lifetime: full of menace and venom, eloquence and fire, rot and pathos, crackling rawness and realism.
  17. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    The storytelling rhythm gets a bit pokey for the amount of story being told.... But director Yates knows his way around this stuff. The visual evocation of '20s Manhattan with a twist offers considerable satisfaction, as does Redmayne's embodiment of a boy-man more comfortable in the company of animals than with humans.
  18. Becoming
    There’s no way to experience Becoming apolitically, not now. You don’t have to consider it first-rate documentary filmmaking of any sort to feel something watching it.
  19. Bandslam
    Here’s the surprise: Bandslam may come from synthetic materials, but the characters are a little more complicated than usual.
  20. Earth Girls Are Easy
    There isn't a better time at the movies right now than Earth Girls Are Easy, a delirious pop musical directed by Julien Temple as a widescreen swirl of color and high spirits.
  21. Mountainhead
    Mountainhead is a talky movie and I tend to like talky movies. But at some point in the nearly two-hour running time, it just becomes boring.
  22. Buzz
    Fascinating as Buzz often is, the film obviously was made with limited resources, transferred to film from DV, with grainy clips from the trailers for Bezzerides-scripted movies rather than snippets of the movies themselves.
  23. Mission: Impossible III
    Mission: Impossible III hasn't the kinks or the oddball Continental chic of the first "Mission: Impossible," but it's less pretentious and obsessively pretty than the second movie.
  24. Sommersby
    Shifting her "Silence of the Lambs" accent a bit westward, the always-reliable Foster is given little to do except react and smile enigmatically, while the always-wooden Gere is all grins and charm, coming across less as a shadowy protagonist than a State Farm agent. [05 Feb 1993, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. Mystery Men
    They're a ragtag assembly for sure, and the results aren't pretty. But on a simple mission of entertainment, they get the job done.
  26. Frankie and Johnny
    Frankie & Johnny manages to work as a sudsy romantic picture about big city loneliness despite an awkward performance by Al Pacino in the role of a hash-house dispenser of wisdom.
  27. The Source
    Like Workman's other films, it's a time capsule that sings.
  28. La bûche
    A fine French comedy-drama.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Delicatessen
    Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's "Delicatessen" is an exuberantly wacky, perversely droll black comedy with an ample dose of gentle whimsy-"Eating Raoul" out of "Mr. Hulot's Holiday." [17 Apr 1992]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    Mrs. Parker is a comedy even though it's sad, and a sort of tragedy even though it's funny, with such foggy borders between the two that pathos and humor seem to smear all over each other, like makeup running with tears. [23 Dec 1994, p.N]
    • Chicago Tribune
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