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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. Arachnophobia
    Arachnophobia marks the directing debut of Frank Marshall, who has worked as Steven Spielberg's producer on many films. He has learned one lesson from Spielberg very well-namely, that getting the small details right about contemporary life can make the most fanciful story seem credible. He also has cast his horror film very unusually well.
  2. Then She Found Me
    A strength of Then She Found Me, from Elinor Lipman's novel, is its straightforward, uncomplicated storytelling that keeps the threads untangled and blends the everyday and the absurd with natural ease.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Strangers
    Bertino's taut, spare thriller is plenty scary without relying on pseudo-historical context. Anchored by convincing performances from Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler, both of whom elevate their roles above the standard horror-movie caricature, this is an enormously unsettling movie.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Under the Sea 3D
    In addition to the romantic music for the cuttlefish courtship, the several musical selections are a step above the usual IMAX fare.
  5. A Tale of Two Sisters
    It's a stunningly creepy specimen of Asian horror.
  6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
    The new film is a fast, funny, engagingly unpretentious 88 minutes that, moving between martial-arts dustups and random satirical jibes, achieves a more successful mix of action and humor than the first. There is plenty for adults here as well as children.
  7. Christopher Robin
    The core human/bear connection is treated with respect. Pooh’s wisdom and kindness cannot be denied. The same impulses worked for the two “Paddington” movies, God knows. Christopher Robin isn’t quite in their league, but it’s affecting nonetheless.
  8. Belushi
    Cutler’s documentary skip-walks a fine line between a great, unstable talent’s rise and fall, and between the un-tender trap of addiction and the joyous energy of a Chicago-bred giant.
  9. Scrooged
    The film works very well, providing lots of laughs, in its first half, setting up the Bill Murray character and his callousness. For a Christmas Eve special he wants to staple antlers on a mouse. [25 Nov 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. The Iron Lady
    Meryl Streep excels as Margaret Thatcher. And the movie itself does not work.
  11. Bride & Prejudice
    It's "knowingly" off-the-rails--and if you're in a tolerant or adventurous mood, very entertaining.
  12. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    It's not revolutionary filmmaking. But Seducing Doctor Lewis sails by on charm and confident character acting, even if it's navigating well-charted waters.
  13. Plane
    It’s the junky, janky mid-winter Liam Neeson thriller we used to get with that first flip of the calendar, only this one stars Gerard Butler, and is directed by Jean-Francois Richet, whose two-part gangster biopic “Mesrine” was pretty juicy. This one’s more pulp than juice, but it’s enjoyable.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Subtle lessons on friendship, materialism and cooperation along with clever touches.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. 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.
  16. Down from the Mountain
    A delightful concert documentary that proves once more what a neglected masterpiece the Coen Brothers gave us last year in their Depression chain-gang odyssey, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Year of the Horse
    Fans of Young's rocking excursions with Crazy Horse -- as opposed to his more polished pop, folk and country-tinged work -- should have a gas at Year of the Horse. [17 Oct 1997, p.F]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. The Northman
    It’s a hearty stew of influences and rewards and, yes, some gristle.
  19. Legends of the Fall
    There's a lot of beauty and excitement in Legends of the Fall - not least from the actors. [13 Jan 1995]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Tower Heist
    For what it is - recessionary wish-fulfillment escapism, with a lot of highly skilled familiar faces in its amply qualified cast - it's fun.
  21. Vice Versa
    Shoulders sloping, not quick on the uptake, utterly agog at the adult world of sex and high-powered business, Reinhold's character is a wonder to behold. And Fred Savage is completely inoffensive as the officious boy-man, which is quite an achievement for a child actor. [11 Mar 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Service (Serbis)
    The theater building is a four-story monster, and by the end of the picture we know it very well, in all its broken-down glory.
  23. The King of Staten Island
    Apatow's greatest strength as a filmmaker is an eye for charismatic performers who are just fun to be around, and The King of Staten Island is a testament to that. In Davidson, Apatow has a uniquely compelling young comedian.
  24. Baby Driver
    It's a thrill to watch it unfold, but the slick filmmaking combined with familiar tropes precludes most spontaneity.
  25. Secret Ballot
    Reserves its sharpest jabs at the harshly circumscribed lives of women in Iran.
  26. The Last Emperor
    A hesitant, conservative approach that yields great elegance and a rhythm that carries the viewer along. Yet the film is haunted by a sense of opportunities not taken, of an artist deliberately reining in his artistry. [9 Dec 1987, p.2]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    Much of this strikingly human, rapidly paced and laudably well-rounded film is fascinating.
  28. Time and Tide
    Gives you your money's worth and then some.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Dazed and Confused
    For a while, I resented the sexist, cruel behavior in the film, much of it revolving around the hazing of underclassmen. But gradually, I saw the movie turn into a brash expose of stupid adolescent traditions. [24 Sept 1993]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Carnage
    A lot of people have no use for Carnage, especially in its unapologetically hemmed-in film version. And yet there isn't a sloppily or casually considered shot in any of the 80 minutes.
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