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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. Brian Banks
    Brian Banks proceeds non-chronologically, toggling between high school years and Banks’ post-prison life. This helps keep the audience on its toes. But it’s the actors who complicate things most fruitfully.
  2. Me, Myself & Irene
    The movie is dedicated, in a nice touch, to early Farrelly fan Gene Siskel. And Gene was right: The Farrellys are often very funny filmmakers. .
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. The Sun Is Also a Star
    In The Sun is Also a Star, Russo-Young swirls together sun-dappled selfies, luscious skin, urban grittiness and hip-hop beats, the aesthetics perfectly matched to emotion. She creates a heady, knee-buckling mood that nearly conceals the weaknesses in story and performances.
  4. Jumpin' Jack Flash
    A good third of this overblown movie consists of stunt-filled action sequences that turn a human story into something akin to Cannonball Run. That's too bad, because Goldberg's character is a terrible thing to waste.
  5. Yesterday
    Everything in the film is high: high concept, high pressure, high stakes and it often feels bizarrely forced. Nothing makes any sense and is never explained.
  6. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    I liked the idea of the movie more than the movie itself -- though sections of it are mind-blowing.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Duane Hopwood
    Thanks to the actors and the way the movie lets them loose, it's often funny or moving at all the right moments.
  8. Soul Men
    The funniest bit in the crude but diverting Soul Men really makes you miss Bernie Mac, who died in August, a few months after completing the picture.
  9. Ella Enchanted
    The movie's computer-generated castles, magic visuals and sloppy effects echo a low-budget fantasy movie on cable. It's glossy, shiny candy that tastes oddly familiar yet lacks sugary punch.
  10. Everything Is Illuminated
    And although Schreiber's hip, intelligent eye is a nice match for Foer's hip, intelligent pen, his movie strays from its own history, creating instead a world, as Alex would say, that is "once-removed."
  11. The Last Castle
    An outrageously unlikely prison action movie made with lots of eye-catching pizzazz and undeserved expertise.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    You, Me and Dupree
    The end product feels less funny than formulaic.
  13. The Intern
    Has its bright spots but is practically blinded by its own privileged perspective of life among the landed gentry of Brooklyn.
  14. How to Get Ahead in Advertising
    The leap from pointing out the hollow values of advertising to a full-scale attack on capitalism is broad, and in trying to make it, Robinson falls into an abyss of speciousness. Nevertheless, his intensely personal style and vision mark him as one of the most promising filmmakers working in England today. [12 May 1989, p.G]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. In the Land of Blood and Honey
    If her movie cannot fully resolve the demands of the love story with the horrifying particulars of the context, she's smart and honest enough as a first-time filmmaker to make "Blood and Honey" off-limits for those who prefer easy viewing. Even with a subject such as this.
  16. Bopha!
    Bopha!, a movie about emotional and political turbulence tearing apart the family of a black South African police officer, is good, but a little disheartening. Not because of the injustice and misery it reveals-but because you want it to be better.
  17. F1: The Movie
    F1 is a pretty decent summer picture, and if it were half as crisp off the track as it is on the track, we’d really have something.
  18. The Business of Strangers
    This is a movie that really has little to offer but performances and ideas. For a while, that's enough.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Lord of the Flies
    The tale, while oversimplified, is told with visual style, particularly in the use of the boys' dream sequences, having to do with rescue and the comfort of adult authority. [16 Mar 1990, p.F]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Total Recall (2012)
    The movie marches in predictable formations as well. But when Biel's rebel pulls over in her hover car and asks Farrell if he'd like a ride, your heart may sing as mine did.
  21. The Ordeal
    A stylish, nasty, very well-done Belgian horror movie.
  22. Frankenweenie
    The entire project is carefully wrought in visual terms and more than a little familiar. Sometimes even a well-applied pair of jumper cables can't do the trick.
  23. The Gentlemen
    The Gentlemen is so blinkered by its outdated (and often offensive) alpha male perspective that it's blind to the elements that could have made it great.
  24. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    Its fascination may be limited to those already very familiar with his works and collaborators - and his sensual, highly subjective style.
  25. Seven Veils
    It’s a lot. Seyfried, who has worked with writer-director Egoyan before on the super-ripe erotic drama “Chloe” (2009), finesses some zig-zaggy tonal swerves confidently and well. The writing, however, wobbles.
  26. Jersey Girl
    Jersey Girl is an oddity, hard to dislike but impossible to buy.
  27. The Menu
    Part “Seven,” part haute-cuisine “Saw,” part reality cooking show, director Mylod’s film finally isn’t sure of how far to push the effrontery. It helps, however, to have Fiennes in the kitchen and a Nordic smokehouse out back.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Loser
    Loser is anemic.
  29. Jade
    Jade, like many another recent erotic or techno thriller, is packed with talent, polished and technically dazzling. But, daring as it might seem in its sexual content and exposure of bad behavior among the mighty, it's curiously soft at conveying what these characters really believe. [13 Oct 1995, p.J2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Megalopolis
    Naive, decadent, sluggish, dazzling, touchingly sincere in its belief that “a vital conversation” about the state of our nation can save us, even with barbarians at the gates: There’s something to vex everyone in Megalopolis.
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