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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. Holy Smoke
    As much fun as anything director/co-writer Jane Campion has ever filmed. Holy Smoke lets it all hang out.
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  2. The Sea Is Watching
    The movie, done in a classic measured style, finally moves you almost as much as if it had stayed in Kurosawa's hands. Filled with love and melancholy, it's a fitting, fond epilogue to the "sensei" (the master).
  3. My Wife Is an Actress
    Despite its many charms, the title of the film -- both complaint and boast -- makes clear whose point of view this is. Gainsbourg is delightful, intelligent and sexy, but this isn't her film.
  4. Osmosis Jones
    Gets under your skin with laughs that are fast, slick and slippery and with visuals as vivid as anything this side of Demerol.
  5. The Ring
    Ends up a few frames short of the perfect horror film, but very few.
  6. The Laundromat
    Soderbergh and Burns remain exceptionally well-matched collaborators. They’re after just enough human interest to make us care, and just enough socioeconomic outrage to make us seethe — some of us, anyway.
  7. The Zookeeper's Wife
    The film's flaws in pacing and suspense are easily overlooked in the shadow of Chastain's moving performance, as well as the performances of those around her. Caro unspools an evergreen tale about the clarifying power of empathy to diffuse fear and hatred.
  8. Born in China
    The message stays firmly on spiritual questions about the circle of life, but doesn't educate or leave the audience with a call to action about how to personally act to protect these animals, and that feels like a missed opportunity.
  9. Ocean's 11
    Frank Sinatra and his Clan knock over Vegas. [07 Dec 2001, p.C1]
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  10. The World Is Not Enough
    There's the script -- and that's the problem.
  11. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
    For me Chastain's unerring honesty is the only element keeping The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby above the realm of pure affectation.
  12. Field of Dreams
    As shrewd and accomplished as the movie is, there's still something uncomfortably manipulative about it... It doesn't explore its primal theme as much as it exploits it, tapping into the automatic, nearly universal power of guilt and regret. [21 Apr 1989, Friday, p.A]
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  13. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    The exhausting slapstick violence is the film's chief variation, and it's no fun at all.
  14. Flicka
    A modernized version of that great sentimental horse movie, 1943's "My Friend Flicka," and it comes with the shiny trappings, high professionalism and glamorous accessories you might expect...Something is missing though.
  15. Bram Stoker's Dracula
    Coppola has raised the stakes, promising the definitive version of the vampire story. What he has created, however, is fresh and original yet boring, an exercise more in art direction than storytelling. [13 Nov 1992, p. C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Mifune's Last Song
    Shares the characters' off-kilter yet human qualities.
  17. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    The filmmaker's imagination is too rich for Spy Kids 3-D to be written off as a failure. But it's too bad that while the visuals have gained a dimension, the story has lost one.
  18. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    It's a nice little film, likable but not exceptional, and it will probably appeal most strongly to actors, would be-actors, wannabes and ex-actors.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Thor
    The last 25 minutes of Thor aren't much better than the first. But that hour in between - tasty, funny, robustly acted - more than compensates.
  20. Permanent Midnight
    The filmmakers' instincts may be sound, but Permanent Midnight is no killer. Stahl hated most of what he wrote in his TV heyday. So one really wonders why he, and maybe Stiller, didn't write this script. Surely, it's one script Stahl could have delivered.
  21. Trick or Treat
    Director Charles Martin Smith, an accomplished actor, gets some very good performances from his cast, notably from Mark Price as Eddie and Lisa Orgolini as his girl. (Gene Simmons, of the rock group KISS, has a small part as a radio deejay). In his directorial debut, he shows an attractive visual style and a sure hand for both humor and horror. [27 Oct 1986, p.5C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Body of Lies
    The most interesting thing about this slick but frustrating picture is the way it puts Crowe’s Hoffman at the center of our mixed feelings.
  23. The Wedding Guest
    The Wedding Guest ultimately just fails to gel into something captivating.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Towelhead
    Everything about the film is aggressively provocative, in both senses of the word.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Teeth
    Teeth is about female exploitation and male castration.
  26. Space Jam
    Compared with the most recent Disney animated features, "Space Jam" is, at times, a hoot, especially when it has fun with Michael's less-than-stellar baseball career and the way his fellow players were starstruck. [15 Nov 1996, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Adult Beginners
    The relative success or failure of Adult Beginners, directed with a steady, nonjudgmental hand by Ross Katz, depends on how funny you find Kroll. I find him funny-ish.
  28. The Last Tycoon
    A curiously cool, but very intelligent movie. [02 Jan 2000, p.19C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Little Buddha
    You might not think of this as a family film, but it is a great one. [27 May 1994, p.B]
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  30. Happy Endings
    Roos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy, but he bogs down every character with so much baggage that it's impossible to render them honestly without the captions.
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