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For 7,609 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 1.5 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: 5,113 out of 7609
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7609
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7609
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  1. The Station Agent
    For most of the film, Fin is only as odd as Joe and Olivia -- three eccentrics rendered positively normal in a friendship built on the crap we all face every day.
  2. Babette's Feast
    A strangely powerful yet meandering film that takes a long time to make its point.
  3. Candyman
    Many will find DaCosta’s take on the story didactic, I suppose, or low on genre payoffs. I’m eager to see it a second time, flaws and all. It’s alive and awake to where we are now.
  4. To the Wonder
    Malick is a true searcher, true to his preoccupations and definitions of soulful rhapsody. To the Wonder repeats its central motifs aplenty, yet you may find yourself thinking about life, and living, and love, while sorting through the movie. Even if it drives you nertz.
  5. 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.
  6. The River Wild
    The River Wild is more of a family movie, a thrill-ride where all the crazier dips and turns are straightened out by the ride's end. Hanson keeps the action clean, the tensions simmering. As a family movie, it's actually pretty good. [30 Sep 1994, p.C]
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  7. Snitch
    It's an entertaining picture — pulp, coming from a place of righteous indignation.
  8. Eight Men Out
    The ensemble performances are of such a uniformly high caliber that our interest in the story never wavers.
  9. Together
    Even when Shanks hits the primary theme of his movie a little too insistently, the actors are vivid throughout. Brie, especially, is spectacularly effective in every emotional register, in the keys of D (Distress), E (Eh what’s going on with our suction-lips?) and C (Commitment is all).
  10. Burning Cane
    The film favors more subtly melancholy strains and, at its best, a poetic touch.
  11. Pillion
    The edgy and explicit Pillion might be set within the parameters of a relationship that many would consider “alternative,” but the heart of it is the same as any love story that becomes a lesson in self-love.
  12. Brewster McCloud
    Nothing Altman made before or after Brewster McCloud is quite so heightened with enjoyably sophomoric and bizarre humor.
  13. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
    Super/Man should introduce many people, young and older, to a fine actor’s work and, more importantly, to what Reeve accomplished for himself and so many others in the life he was dealt.
  14. Baby Boy
    A movie that will act like a smack in the face to some audiences, while others may simply laugh in recognition.
  15. I, Robot
    It's a high-tech thriller that really works.
  16. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    Uneven but rollicking, The Pirates! has a personality to call its own.
  17. Southside with You
    Southside with You is best taken as a reminder of the value of the slow relational build, of taking your time and actually talking, and actually listening, with someone new. Even if there's not a staggering political future in your shared future.
  18. Oleanna
    There's so much emotion and so many ideas in this film that it's both angering and exhilarating. The acting is fine, the writing superb, the production crisp.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    Its moving narrative requires little in the way of embellishment, but Temple’s documentary sometimes becomes too clever for its own good.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dark Matter
    The film does a fine job of displaying the contrasts between these tense, formalized Chinese students and the faux populist American academics.
  21. Kitchen Stories
    The movie's gentle humor and offbeat whimsy prove that humanity trumps bureaucratic foolishness, in Norway or anywhere else.
  22. Leviathan
    A lively, well-made schlock thriller that will doubtlessly be forgotten in two weeks, but in the meantime should provide a few pleasant evenings for fans of the genre.
  23. Chasing Liberty
    As it turns out, "Liberty," a likable, light-as-air road comedy, is a much better movie than its sour-pun title.
  24. The Hot Spot
    Pretty silly. The Hot Spot certainly is, and it's occasionally quite entertaining for it, though the picture never really achieves a dimension beyond that of a Playboy Party Joke. [26 Oct 1990, Friday, p.I]
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  25. Gung Ho
    The film would be funnier and more provocative if it took a stronger stand on one side or the other, but Howard chooses to hedge his bets, selecting an ending that celebrates brotherhood more than the strongly hinted- at notion that American workers would do well to get off their featherbedding backs.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rush
    Zanuck seems unsure whether to swoon or to scold, and the distance she preserves between herself and the characters occasionally feels smug and exploitative. Still, Leigh preserves her integrity throughout, adding an inflexible reality principle to the often extravagant goings-on. [10 Jan 1992, p.J]
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  27. The Page Turner
    Dercourt, a very fine filmmaker, is a musician himself, a music teacher and one-time solo viola player with the French Symphony Orchestra. And he directs, with a musician's precision and an insider's sly wit, the world of classical music performance.
  28. Hukkle
    A film driven by an elusive plot buried like a cryptogram under the action. It's a delightfully screwy ethnographic murder mystery, beautifully photographed in translucent naturalistic color.
  29. Teacher's Pet
    First-time director Timothy Bjorklund, who also shepherded Teacher's Pet on television, conducts some inventive, devilish sequences.
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