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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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  1. In the Heights
    Like the modest but wholly winning precursor to “Hamilton” it is, In the Heights works as an essentially apolitical embrace of the American possibility and the American roadblocks to that possibility, in a canny variety of musical styles, from hip hop to salsa
  2. The White Ribbon
    Haneke’s vision is gripping. The craftsmanship, classically shaped narrative and icy visual beauty cannot be denied.
  3. Brokeback Mountain
    A good and eloquent Wyoming-set love story with a great performance at its heart.
  4. Ceddo
    A classic, mythic portrayal of African history, religion and politics by the great Senegalese novelist-filmmaker Sembene, centering on a princess' kidnapping and its aftermath. [18 Sep 1998, p.J]
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  5. Of Mice and Men
    But the biggest surprise is that Sinise steals scene after scene from Malkovich who has the flashier role. His work also has a quiet power, a tribute to the minimalist acting style that knows the camera can function as an X-ray if the characterization is true. [2 Oct 1992, p.C]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Buddy Holly Story
    One of the most engaging rock biographies ever filmed. [31 Jan 1988, p.18C]
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  7. Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
    With 20 additional minutes of screen time, the director's cut of Richard Kelly's genre-splicing "Donnie Darko" offers new viewers a second chance to discover his mind-bending masterwork.
  8. Mysteries of Lisbon
    It's a lot. But if you're at all inclined, it's just right.
  9. Young Goethe in Love
    Young Goethe in Love wants only to engage an audience with a capital-R Romantic ideal of Goethe's first love. It does so very well. And it was well worth the effort.
  10. Gimme the Loot
    This is a true New York movie, though in its ear and eye for atmospheric beauty it feels more French.
  11. Jodorowsky's Dune
    Had this ambitious head trip come to pass, it might've made Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" look like "Go, Dog. Go!"
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Caine Mutiny
    Director Edward Dmytryk, working from a top-notch script adapted from Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, makes Bogie's gradual breakdown under relentless cross-examination from defense lawyer Jose Ferrer a superb example of screen melodrama. [21 Nov 1986, p.92]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Head-On
    It's a brutally convincing movie about two hell-bent young Turkish-German lovers dancing on the edge of destruction in a Hamburg underworld of drugs and casual sex. Yet it's also compassionate and even tender.
  14. Inspector Bellamy
    Chabrol's final picture was designed with Depardieu in mind. It's a small work. Yet it's so pleasurably well-made, so obviously the work of major talents in a comfortable groove, why carp about the scale or ambition of the project?
  15. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    Belongs to that brand of sweeping, conflict-era drama epitomized by "Saving Private Ryan," "Gone with the Wind" and TV miniseries "North and South."
  16. The Wife
    An unusually good adaptation of an unusually good novel.
  17. The Last Temptation of Christ
    Dafoe manages to draw us into the mystery, anguish and joy of the holy life. This is anything but another one of those boring biblical costume epics. There is genuine challenge and hope in this movie. [12 Aug 1988, p.A]
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  18. King Corn
    A breezy diary from a pair of first-time farmers, as well as a wry rebuke to a nation devoted to eating cheaply but not necessarily well, King Corn makes its points without much finger-wagging.
  19. The Invitation
    The movie is a small marvel of contained spaces, exploited beautifully by Kusama and cinematographer Bobby Shore.
  20. Happy Times
    Just as Zhao uses his comic gifts to create an affecting human, so Dong's performance as Wu is a triumph of honesty and tact.
  21. Angel Heart
    The centerpiece for Angel Heart is Mickey Rourke's carefully modulated performance as Harry Angel. Ever a resourceful actor, Rourke is a marvel of complexity here, a blend of innocence and cunning, a mask of streetwise nonchalance over personal torment. [06 Mar 1987, p.F]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. George Washington
    A picture about America with the blinders off, a film about heroism that makes you chuckle and feel sad - and a film about childhood that lets us reenter that lost world and see the grass, sky and sunlight the way they once looked, in the golden hours.
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  23. 2046
    iIt's a film for art- and foreign-movie devotees. But it's also a movie for audiences who simply want to get turned on.
  24. Detropia
    The oddly beautiful documentary made by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Gray is subtler and richer than its blunt title suggests.
  25. Goodbye Solo
    The acting's so true, and Bahrani's so observant, you find yourself caring about everyone onscreen.
  26. Maps to the Stars
    It's a strange, fascinating exercise in what Joel Coen once described as "tone management," job No. 1 for any director.
  27. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    The musical score by Emile Mosseri of the band The Dig, is very fine stuff, supple and surprising in its blend of classical, jazz and pop strains. It adds to the otherworldly quality established and sustained so well by Talbot, and by the actors.
  28. Innocence
    A beautiful, almost defiant film on an unusual subject: love among the elderly.
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  29. The Nightingale
    With “The Babadook” and now The Nightingale, Kent joins the ranks of a few dozen precious filmmakers able to transport us somewhere awful and beautiful, challenging us every step of the way.
  30. Romancing the Stone
    A thoroughly enjoyable Raiders of the Lost Ark inspired adventure film, set in the present and starring Michael Douglas as an American hustler in Columbia who helps uptight romance novelist Kathleen Turner search for buried treasure. [22 June 1984, p.12]
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