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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. Frida
    The film seems a mad mix of staid PBS bio-drama, flamboyant musical comedy and surreal cartoon nightmare.
  2. Quitting
    Daring and beautifully made, Zhang Yang's Quitting plays like a Chinese "Rebel Without a Cause."
  3. Ladrón que roba a ladrón
    Ladron plays like a telenovela without the melodrama. The characters are brightly drawn archetypes, and the humor's very broad. But the tone is nice and brash.
  4. Magic Mike XXL
    It retains the original's sunny, democratic vibe and refreshing lack of meanness, as well as Soderbergh's interest (if not his precision) in keeping several of the ensemble members in frame, interacting, without a lot of routine close-ups.
  5. Project X
    The drama is predictable, and the confrontations lack rational dialogue. In other words, this is just of the sort of movie that a 9-year-old would probably enjoy. [1 May 1987, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. The Soloist
    This is the story of a complicated and fraught friendship, and I'm not sure Wright and his collaborators figured out how much Hollywood baloney and how much naturalistic grunge to apply to it.
  7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    The visual style is typical, ultra crisp computer animation, bright, sharp, somewhat clinical.
  8. Urban Cowboy
    John Travolta stars as a Texas construction worker who spends his nights chasing a woman and the cowboy myth in a huge honky-tonk bar. Debra Winger is a standout as the object of Travolta's anger and affections. [11 July 1980, p.8]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Vice
    What Vice says, and how it says it, will have half its audience nodding in angry, contemptuous agreement, and the other half calling it a liberal smear. In other words it’s like everything else in the culture right now.
  10. Ocean's 8
    It’s smooth, and far from inept. But it isn’t much fun. That’s all you want from a certain kind of heist picture, isn’t it? Fun?
  11. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    That the film doesn't live up to our anticipation of a rolicking good time is only part of its disappointment. [11 June 1986]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. The Weather Man
    In The Weather Man, Nicolas Cage, a great oddball movie star who sometimes takes enormous risks, has a good, risky part again.
  13. Respect
    Respect runs into trouble when its own respect toward Aretha Franklin, the woman who gave us the voice of a century, settles for garden-variety adoration. But longtime stage director Liesl Tommy’s debut feature, working from a screenplay by dramatist and screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson, offers plenty of compensations amid its biopic conventions.
  14. Hot Shots!
    Hot Shots! is very sharp and very funny, and if it doesn't have the aggressive, anarchic edge of "Airplane!" (attitude seems to be the specialty of David Zucker, who has just released "The Naked Gun 2 1/2 "), it is consistently, almost exhaustingly hilarious.
  15. Addams Family Values
    Addams Family Values is another big opportunistic, pre-marketed studio show, but it has laughs, flair. At its best, it's a valentine of venom, sent with mirth and malice aforethought.
  16. Traitor
    Problems aside, this is a good, twisty, absorbing work.
  17. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    The first "H&K" caught people off-guard with its canny idiocy and zigzagging, picaresque treasure hunt premise. By now, there's no catching anyone off-guard with these two, except by way of the most off-color and off-putting means possible.
  18. Welcome to Collinwood
    Even at a mere 82 minutes, the movie is guilty of killing time. It's not a complete Kaputschnik, but it's sure no Bellini.
  19. Rumble in the Bronx
    Chan is so good, so much fun to watch, that he often transcends his vehicles. And that's the case with Rumble in the Bronx, his big bid to crack the American market. [23 Feb 1996, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Laurel Canyon
    Laurel Canyon itself feels musical: languid, rich in color and light, and deliciously sensual.
  21. Blue Crush
    If you can simply get lost in the crushing splendor of the waves themselves, the script might not leave you so seasick.
  22. Capitalism: A Love Story
    At its best, this uneven work represents Moore at the peak of his argumentative skills.
  23. Secretariat
    Secretariat isn't bad but it's precisely what you'd expect.
  24. She's So Lovely
    The late Mr. Cassavetes directed a film called A Woman Under the Influence. This is a powerful variation on that theme -- a woman tossed every which-way, physically and emotionally. [29 Aug 1997, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. Angel Heart
    The movie could reasonably be rated S for slow because director Alan Parker seems more concerned with style and with hiding the film's big mystery than with pacing. We develop no empathy for the Rourke character, and so watching the movie, as attractive as it is physically, is like riding on a slow conveyor belt. [06 Mar 1987, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Vol. II turns into a battle (like most von Trier films) between the filmmaker's baser instincts and his searching ones.
  27. Topaz
    Hitch's most plausible, least suspenseful spy thriller, based on Leon Uris' reality-inspired novel of intrigue in Cuba and France. [23 Jun 2006, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wah-Wah
    There isn't enough heft to the story to pull everything together. Watching it is like trying to assemble a puzzle that's missing pieces.
  29. El Angel
    A sleekly fashioned true-crime story without much on its mind.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Fast & Furious 6
    Actually, if "Fast 6" shows any new ambitions, it's by enthusiastically embracing its inner-Telemundo, its heated, knotty "Game of Thrones" melodrama.
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