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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. Happy Times
    Just as Zhao uses his comic gifts to create an affecting human, so Dong's performance as Wu is a triumph of honesty and tact.
  2. Luz
    Writer-director Tilman Singer casts a trancelike swirl incorporating elements of hypnosis, demonic transference, memories of sexual abuse and one of the furthest-out, least by-the-book police procedurals put on film.
  3. Rio
    The movie isn't dull, exactly; the problem lies in the other, antsy direction.
  4. Let Him Go
    A 1960s-set Western laden with big skies, steady gazes and slow-roasted narrative corn, Let Him Go gets by on the strength of its female leads, Diane Lane and Lesley Manville. Kevin Costner’s effective, too, and he’s right in his taciturn sweet spot, muttering about this and that.
  5. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Things We Lost in the Fire finds Bier at an interesting juncture, half-Dogmatic, half traditionalist.
  6. City of Men
    Director Morelli and editor Daniel Rezende know how to set up complex lines of action and keep the screws tight.
  7. Cry-Baby
    Cry-Baby doesn`t have a subject, but only a format-a rickety framework erected to suport a few broad gags and a few indifferently filmed production numbers.
  8. World War Z
    The stakes are high and the excitement's there and the results, as previously stated, are messy but fairly entertaining.
  9. Hannah Takes the Stairs
    Intimacy is graphically portrayed, down to recurring moments in a bathtub, including a memorable duet trumpet rendition of “The 1812 Overture.” Chop off a star if you’re not up for highly experimental cinema.
  10. The Foot Fist Way
    Staggers and wanders and feels far longer than its 85 minutes, and it's best considered a calling card for better things to come.
  11. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Its gorgeous black-and-white photography, dirty and matte, will almost convince you that anything this slow, small and bereft of dialogue must be important.
  12. Split
    While McAvoy is known for his dramatic roles, and as the young Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" franchise, he's delightful when let off the leash and allowed to show off his loud, campy, unhinged side.
  13. Bombay Eunuch
    A short film with a unique subject matter. But you won't soon forget its people, its places or its sad, surprising revelations about all the sexes.
  14. Suddenly
    At first look, it's a stark and thin story of misguided youth. But give it a week. The girls stay with you, the small moments echo, and you realize that, though this movie doesn't lend itself to a punchy summary, it lends itself to the screen.
  15. I Capture the Castle
    Smith's story is a charmer: touching, funny, romantic, perceptive, absorbing and full of color and character. And the movie, which has been respectfully and affectionately handled by people who obviously love their source, captures most of those qualities.
  16. Alpha
    It's sweet, really, to imagine the kind of devotion Alpha might inspire, a film that's very simple, kind of strange, but will melt any dog-lover's heart.
  17. Life
    Life can be funny, sad, conventional, unpredictable -- or a pain in the tail. And so can Life, the new Eddie Murphy movie. [16 April 1999, Tempo, p.4]
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  18. L'amour fou
    Berge is a meticulous and intriguing host, though one gets the feeling he's relaying, very selectively, only so much of the messier side of his life with Saint Laurent. So be it.
  19. The Upside of Anger
    It's a bizarre but engaging fling.
  20. Scoop
    A major sticking point is that none of these characters have been developed into people who are interesting enough to carry what is ultimately an exceedingly thin story, and the lack of intrigue becomes a glaring issue.
  21. The Dreamers
    Ablaze with poetry and danger, and suffused with an odd kind of intellectual kitsch.
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