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For 7,601 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: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Woman on Top
    A dish that's pretty easy to swallow, but if it could have borrowed some of Isabella's more potent spices, it might have boasted a more lasting flavor.
  2. Dancer in the Dark
    (The film is) one of the most anguished, intense and weirdly brilliant of the year.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Left Luggage
    The only glaring fault of this otherwise fine film is that director Jeroen Krabbe's sense of drama is far too heavy-handed in spots.
  4. Human Resources
    Works so well for the first 40 minutes or so, that when the bottom falls out of it, I felt more than disappointed. I felt betrayed.
  5. Goya in Bordeaux
    Bravo!
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Has moments of profound poignance, though it lacks the overall dramatic impact of "The Long Way Home."
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Circus
    When the final twist has been turned and the last corpse has hit the ground, it is a film that could have been twice as good if it had been half as complicated.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Just say no.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Bait
    It's another slick-and-quick muscle car of a movie, racing along for a couple of hours, taking you nowhere as fast as it can.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Urbania
    One of those small films that will, one hopes, find a larger audience through word of mouth.
  11. Duets
    The joys of singing give the movie a hook, but when Duets aims for lyricism, it's got a tin ear.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Almost Famous
    I loved this movie madly, and so will many of you.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. The Way of the Gun
    What pulls us along through the inky shoals of The Way of the Gun? Sheer style, plus the movie's refusal to play nice.
  14. Nurse Betty
    The movie has a deliberately screw-loose feel.
  15. Solas
    A beautifully acted and deeply compassionate study of ordinary people coping with the vicissitudes of life.
  16. The Watcher
    Sluggish and preposterous, full of violence and cliches.
  17. Whipped
    A decent idea that never goes deep enough for genuine satisfaction.
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Titanic Town
    As solid as the earth, rich as a good meal and sometimes funny as hell.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Highlander: Endgame
    Has to explain itself through so much of the film that there's just not much film left.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Dark Days
    There is something inherently dishonest about Dark Days.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. The Art of War
    Too-loud, poorly directed and seriously overedited.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bring It On
    Absurdly unrealistic at times.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Solomon & Gaenor
    Has a melodramatic glow.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Rarely ventures beyond familiar territory.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bittersweet Motel
    A documentary that will likely leave Phish diehards hankering for more, and everybody else still wondering what all the fuss is about.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Orfeu
    A seductive revisiting of an old classic - one that helps us see these lovers and their world with renewed passion.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love & Sex
    What we have here is the cinematic equivalent of a dead shark.
  28. The Crew
    I laughed all the way through it.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Place Vendôme
    This is a quiet thriller and a middle-aged romance, and it's full of desperation and oozing anxiety.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    The beauty of The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack lies in its ability to transform itself into a sad tale of loss, regret and missed opportunities while it also remains a solid documentary about a once-influential artist seeking his place in the sun.
    • Chicago Tribune
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