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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. The Karate Kid
    Jackie Chan co-stars in Morita's old role of the humble maintenance man who coaches the Bullied One. The older Chan gets, the simpler and truer he becomes as a performer.
  2. An Amazing Couple
    A wry romantic comedy set among Bruno's targets, the Grenoble bourgeois.
  3. Emmanuel's Gift
    An inspirational movie about a inspiring figure: Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah of Ghana.
  4. Mo' Better Blues
    A messy but nonetheless compelling movie.
  5. Cahill U.S. Marshal
    A combination of toughness and sentimentality with John Wayne. [21 May 2000, p.38C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Bad Trip
    I hate hidden-camera gags on principle and have since “Candid Camera.” It takes something at least as funny as the first “Borat” (and, at its sharpest and sweetest, the second one), or this movie, for my jaw to unclench long enough to enjoy the brutal slapstick and the faux human misery.
  7. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    Silly, sadistic and finally a little galling, Kingsman: The Secret Service answers the question: What would Colin Firth have been like if he'd played James Bond?
  8. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
    Christina Hodson’s script is a madcap, irreverent roller coaster ride, the story relayed in a loopy, looping, nonlinear fashion through Harley’s hyperactive storytelling style.
  9. Kevin Hart: What Now?
    Hart's turn as 0054 is both a fun riff on the genre and a statement that Hart doesn't need to ask for permission to be Bond — because he can do whatever he wants.
  10. Saturday Night
    In 2024 a movie about a live-TV countdown to destiny, once upon a time in ’75, needs more than moderately skillful reverence, and reaction shots of people cracking up at colleagues, to show us what it might’ve been like to be there.
  11. Funny People
    50 percent good and 50 percent close.
  12. Absolute Beginners
    It remains an engaging, energetic film. [22 Jan 1987, p.9B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Glastonbury
    Best of all though, we get to experience the whole fest itself, over four turbulent decades-an era from which Glastonbury, like Woodstock in its day, offers a halcyon "timeout."
  14. The Horn Blows at Midnight
    It's not all that funny -- but fascinating in a weird, knockabout way. [28 Aug 1998, p.O]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. The Light Between Oceans
    It ends up more of a study in moral and ethical decision-making, than as an emotional catharsis or release, but it's a worthy journey nonetheless.
  16. Bad Hair
    While Bad Hair is more humorously incisive than truly terrifying, Lorraine, in the leading role, sells it, while Simien creates space to discuss the ways in which women enforce unfair standards of beauty on each other in a white patriarchal society, using the horror genre as a blunt but effective tool to clear the path.
  17. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
    Though the result is a distant, hyperstylized exaggeration of form and movement, the film itself turns repetitive and exhaustive.
  18. The Emperor's New Clothes
    One of the most clever, most enjoyable historical fantasies to hit screens in a long time, The Emperor's New Clothes is a sumptuous showcase for Ian Holm, who delivers not one but two great performances.
  19. Ultimate X: The Movie
    After clawing their way into the Olympics, so-called extreme sports deserve respect, but this is no way to get it.
  20. The Lost City
    This one rolls right over any doubters, powered by Bullock and Tatum, in a film that lets them play to their strengths.
  21. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    Larsson's leading characters have less to do in this wrap-up chapter. As Larsson wrote it and screenwriter and exposition-condenser Ulf Rydberg adapted it, it's a rather wobbly blend of courtroom drama and loose ends tied, albeit rather leisurely.
  22. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    If you’re a Chicagoan, if you have just a smidgen of interest in the city’s arts scene and if you’ve been around a while, there’s no way to be objective about I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.
  23. SPECTRE
    For all its workmanlike devotion to out-of-control helicopters, “Spectre” works best when everyone’s on the ground, doing his or her job, driving expensive fast cars heedlessly, detonating the occasional wisecrack, enjoying themselves and their beautiful clothes.
  24. Femme Fatale
    The film is De Palma's tribute to film noir, to Paris and to the cinema itself.
  25. Luminous Motion
    Never regains its raw power once the sultry Unger retreats from the front seat of her Chevy to the privacy of her suburban bedroom.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Stitch Head
    This touching and somewhat grotesque story is the perfect gateway for younger kids to dabble in more spooky, gothic content, as well as to take in the true lessons of Shelley’s original monster tale.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Them
    One of the most intelligent and unnerving horror films in recent memory.
  28. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    The script’s a messy sort of mess. There are also clear signs of a nervy director at work.
  29. From Beyond
    We could do without the film's leather sex scenes, but otherwise From Beyond is a decent enough low- budget horror film that delivers what audiences have every reason to expect--a funny, horrific grossout. [24 Oct 1986, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Our Idiot Brother
    It's sweet, and low-key. It's very '70s in its vibe, which helps when the script veers in and out of formula.
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