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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. Snow White and the Huntsman
    This is a violent film. It's rougher, in fact, than "The Hunger Games."
  2. Finch
    Though not originally produced with streaming in mind, Finch absolutely feels like it was designed by algorithm.
  3. Coach Carter
    A true story, feel-good parable and a respectable, uplifting descendent of "To Sir, With Love" and "Lean On Me."
  4. Brighton Rock
    Although Joffe appears to be making a Brighton version of the seductively natty evil we find stateside in "Boardwalk Empire," this Brighton Rock remains muffled, half-formed pulp fiction.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    What it lacks in narrative ambition, it makes up for in dazzling choreography.
  6. The Great New Wonderful
    The story lines don't intersect in that schematic, "Crash"-y way, which is refreshing. Less refreshing is the neat-and-tidiness of the individual exchanges in Sam Catlin's script.
  7. The Dinner
    The finished product feels tonally indistinct and plays as a bit of a grind.
  8. Confetti
    Outlandish weddings aren't much of a satiric target, but Confetti isn't really going for satire; mild-mannered japes are more its style.
  9. Backstage
    The results aren't gothic and bloody, as they were in the Lauren Bacall film "The Fan," or elegant and ironic as in the Bette Davis classic "All About Eve"--though the plot suggests a bit of both.
  10. Morning Glory
    If the romantic comedy Morning Glory clicks with audiences, the McAdams factor surely will be the reason why.
  11. Traveller
    Traveller is a low-key, intelligent examination of some fascinating people who must do plenty of fast talking just to survive. [25 Apr 1997]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Last Kiss
    A smart, witty, sexy take on the perils of becoming an adult.
  13. Up at the Villa
    It's a corker of a story - a polished yarn full of desire, desperation and despair.
  14. The Man from Elysian Fields
    It's a movie that starts off nicely, offers two marvelous performances (by James Coburn and Mick Jagger) and then slowly, unaccountably loses itself.
  15. Wind
    Wind is a vigorous and colorful piece of filmmaking that never quite shakes free of an embarrassingly trite, formulaic screenplay. [11 Sep 1992, p.H]
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Last Chance Harvey
    Last Chance Harvey is what it is: a pleasant put-up job, held up by world-class pros.
  17. Horrible Bosses
    Cleverly structured, Horrible Bosses works in spite of its cruder, scrotum-centric instincts.
  18. The Company You Keep
    The movie struggles to turn the story into a paradoxical easygoing thriller, befitting the age bracket of its key ensemble members.
  19. Not Without My Daughter
    It is Field's bursting, big-eyed American-ness - a commodity she has carefully banked since her days as TV's "Gidget" - that generates the film's lurid fascination. [11 Jan 1991, p.K]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Everything's Gone Green
    A romantic comedy/social satire that, on a modest budget, manages to be hip, charming, funny and dressed to kill.
  21. Legal Eagles
    Novie lovers will want more of Winger and more Redford, both separately and together. If they had more scenes, their romance might seem more credible, rather than being simply the movie convention of ''star loves star.'' It`s a close call on Legal Eagles. It`s not a total waste of time.
  22. Michael Jordan to the Max
    For any of you who've ever daydreamed of playing hoops with Jordan, Michael Jordan to the Max is almost certainly the closest you'll ever get.
  23. Cet amour-là
    The film, like its lovers, is fond, giddy and poetic about love and death.
  24. Bread and Roses
    As is often the case in Loach's films, all the acting is exemplary. Padilla, who learned English only shortly before making the film, is a natural actress, a smoldering presence.
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. Disappearances
    The movie looks like far more than a million dollars and it offers the kind of smart, picaresque good time you get from books like "The Reivers" and "Huckleberry Finn" and movies like "Bronco Billy" and "Bonnie and Clyde."
  26. Dark Blue
    Unlike the intrigue and winding switchback of moral mysteries that defined "L.A. Confidential," Dark Blue travels on flat, predictable terrain.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Brother to Brother
    Ambitious but clumsy, it's a movie to appreciate rather than to be engaged by.
  28. It's Complicated
    It's Complicated isn’t: It’s pretty simple. It’s simply a good time.
  29. Back to the Future Part II
    A movie that must spend most of its running time explaining its hopelessly complicated premises, which leaves very little room for anything much to happen. [22 Nov 1989, p.C1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Unfinished Song
    There's something off in its scenes of Arterton's romantically unlucky loner showing up at Arthur's home, in the rain, distraught. If the movie weren't so determined to placate, you'd think you're in for a daring exploration of an affair between a 30-something emotional cripple and a 70-something sexy beast, unchained at last.
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