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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. Compromising Positions
    There's a good movie lurking somewhere in Susan Isaacs' script of her comic murder mystery novel "Compromising Positions" but neither Isaacs nor director Frank Perry has found it. [30 Aug 1985, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Noises Off...
    Very little sense of the performers' humanity emerges from behind their stage roles, perhaps because Bogdanovich has directed the supposedly spontaneous dialogue to sound just as forced and theatrical as the scripted lines. [20 March 1992, p.2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Mr. Untouchable
    As interesting, certainly, as “American Gangster,” and operating with a truer street sense of the characters involved.
  4. Rounding
    Rounding, named after the hospital rounds medical students conduct with their mentors, casts enough of an atmospheric spell in its tale of psychological demons haunting a young medical student to linger in your psyche a while.
  5. The Conjuring 2
    Wan is a humane sort of sadist. His latest offers little that's new, but the movie's finesse is something even non-horror fans can appreciate.
  6. The Housemaid
    Feig stylishly waltzes us through this steamy, twisty mystery with ease, but not necessarily sophistication — this is the kind of frothy entertainment that you can still enjoyably comprehend after a glass or two, which in fact might enhance the experience.
  7. The TV Set
    For all its bright writing, TV Set is contrived and predictable, another morality lesson from a poisoned pen telling us what we've heard before.
  8. The Dead Girl
    The way Moncrieff has structured The Dead Girl, it's catnip for actors: Divided into five chapters, the script affords juicy roles requiring only a few days' work from each member of its impressive ensemble.
  9. Circumstance
    The film wages an internal battle between its ripely sensual atmosphere and its often stilted pacing and plotting.
  10. Love Jones
    At times Witcher leans too heavily on the familiar, with the ups and downs of the last half hour growing repetitive and wearisome. But his accomplishment is nonetheless impressive. [14 Mar 1997, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Pure magic, a three-act movie fantasy that transports us -- as the best films do -- to a world of its own, a place of ambiguous joy and delirious terror.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Maryam
    A searing reminder of the relevance of recent history and of the timeless power of fiction to humanize people and crystallize sweeping events into personal drama.
  13. A Tale of Two Sisters
    It's a stunningly creepy specimen of Asian horror.
  14. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
    If it doesn't make you laugh, nothing will. [28 June 1991]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Arlington Road
    A classy but over-contrived topical thriller about bomb plots and anti-government groups.
  16. Unexpected
    The central relationship in Unexpected ebbs and flows, and even when you sense the edges smoothed over to the point of blandness, the actors keep it on track.
  17. Operation Mincemeat
    Operation Mincemeat takes liberties. All historically based movies do. Call Madden’s version a civilized shell game that accomplishes its mission, more or less in the spirit of how things actually got made up and went down.
  18. The Runaways
    A rich and surprisingly old-fashioned musical biopic, The Runaways has neither the bloat nor the blather of your average Hollywood treatment of stars on the rise.
  19. The Picture of Dorian Gray
    It's the film for which Albright painted a series of progressively decaying portraits of Dorian, climaxing in a ghastly vision of venereal rot and putrescence. [27 Feb 1997, p.11B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. My Week with Marilyn
    Such stalwarts as Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Toby Jones and Dominic Cooper spice things up as characters of various degrees of familiarity.
  21. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Does not know when to quit. Nor does it extract much fun from a cockamamie story provided by George Lucas.
  22. Salt
    Like the "Bourne" franchise to which Noyce's film is indebted, Salt is a combination of pursuit, evasion, name-clearing and a reversal or two.
  23. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    The Hunger Games has completed its tasks well and met fan expectations.
  24. Everything Must Go
    The results go only so far. Yet already Ferrell has come a long way as a seriocomic screen presence.
  25. La Bamba
    As played by the smooth-faced, cheerful Lou Diamond Phillips, there seems to be something almost supernatural about the young man of La Bamba. He's a chosen one, and his rise to the top will be swift and smooth. If only he could shake those nightmares about a crashing plane . . . . [24 July 1987, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Amazing Grace
    Apted and his collaborators are so in awe of their subject they neglect to bring him to full human life.
  27. A Room for Romeo Brass
    Offers an honest, understated and unsentimental look at a small incident in the course of a friendship - but it is the kind of incident that defines most childhoods.
  28. One Last Kiss
    While Last Kiss may strike some as a calculated crowd-pleaser, it's cleverly calculated, perceptive and often quite funny -- and a bit darker than it may first appear.
  29. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Fully up to, as well as virtually indistinguishable from, its predecessors… The guarantee of Indiana Jones is that the pace never varies and the tone never changes; when you've had enough, you can feel free to leave. [24 May 1989, Tempo, p.1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Dirty Dancing
    A shapely film, considered and concise. And if its rhetorical slickness eventually covers up its emotional core, that slickness has a pleasure all its own. [21 August 1987]
    • Chicago Tribune
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