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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. Lake of Fire
    By the end of Lake of Fire, you know full well you’re in the presence of a deeply conflicted filmmaker, bound to make all sides uneasy, even enraged.
  2. Under the Skin
    It feels fresh and unpredictable, as quietly strange as the remarkable musical score from first-time feature film composer Mica Levi.
  3. The Miracle Worker
    Anne Bancroft won the Oscar playing Helen Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, in this intelligent adaptation of William Gibson's Broadway hit, and it's a fierce, moving job, highlighted by the incredibly savage battles between teacher Annie and pupil Helen (fellow Oscar winner Patty Duke). It's a model serious bio-drama.
  4. The Post
    The Post has a lot going for it, alongside a certain amount of hokum.
  5. Fireworks
    Fireworks is a great new film that takes the traditions and makes them burn and explode, in violence and beauty, flame and flower. It's a film that lights up the night, opens your eyes. [20 Mar 1998, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. The Magdalene Sisters
    A fierce, brilliant film that breaks (and then mends) your heart.
  7. Superman II
    Even more enjoyable than the original. [19 June 1981]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Henry V
    There is a great deal of value in Branagh's version, not least in his own lead performance as a soft, indefinite Henry who defines himself over the course of the play. [15 Dec 1989]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The well-loved science fiction tale of the brainy extraterrestrial Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who comes to Earth to warn the planet against its self-destructive nuclear pursuits; he winds up observing humanity close up. [06 Oct 2006, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Eastern Promises
    An unusually strong crime thriller, Eastern Promises comes from director David Cronenberg, a meticulous old-school craftsman of a type that is becoming increasingly rare.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Shanghai Express
    Great Hollywood kitsch, supremely visualized by Von Sternberg and cinematographer Lee Garmes. [07 Nov 2003, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Footnote
    The main thing with Cedar's film, I think, is to approach it not as a farce, not as a drama, not as a mystery, not as any genre in particular. It's a comic nightmare, in the vein of the Coen brothers' "A Serious Man," and Cedar proves masterly at playing the stakes for real.
  13. The White Diamond
    One of the year's best documentaries.
  14. Free Solo
    The tensions inherent in Honnold’s singular life are many. Free Solo gives you just enough of that life on terra firma to make the heights truly dazzling.
  15. Trouble the Water
    Trouble the Water is so much better and truer and deeper and more illuminating than either of them ("Bowling for Columbine"/"Fahrenheit 9/11").
  16. Misericordia
    The rhythm and plotting of Misericordia subverts expectations, not with story twists but with a tonal game of three-card monte.
  17. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    This is an elegant and eloquent love letter from one master filmmaker to two of his prized idols.
  18. Mustang
    The issues at play in Mustang are gravely serious but the tone and rhythm is brisk, headlong and intelligently lively, like the women at the center.
  19. Is That Black Enough for You?!?
    [Mitchell’s] celebration of these films is seriously entertaining.
  20. Driveways
    It’s dumb to measure the worth of anything by its ability to make you cry, but by the end of Driveways the feelings of the characters spill over into your own experience of watching a small, very quiet, very powerful 83-minute short story of a movie.
  21. Don't Think Twice
    A genuinely charming comedy about real people challenging themselves to create new realities for laughs and a little truth, one made-up scene at a time.
  22. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Sweeney Todd may haunt you in ways you’re not used to with a movie musical. At least not since “Mame.”
  23. Intervista
    While Intervista will appeal mostly to the dedicated cineaste who can appreciate its many inside jokes, Fellini displays such a ravishing range of technique and assurance that even more casual moviegoers must view this film with awe. [26 Mar 1993, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Sanjuro
    The thrilling sequel-return of Mifune's hip samurai from Yojimbo. [01 Nov 2002, p.C9]
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. In the Summers
    A lot happens, some of it life-changing, some of it heartrending, parts of it (in story terms) a bit rushed or on-the-nose. The actors, unerringly well-cast, more or less take care of those last parts.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Winchester '73
    The first of Mann's great Jimmy Stewart cycle -- and one of his best. [30 Apr 2010, p.C3]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Locke
    Twenty minutes in, Hardy notwithstanding, you might be tempted to bail on Locke. Don't.
  28. Knife in the Water
    The Polish thriller that made Polanski world-famous, a taut psychological drama in which a bourgeois married couple invite a hitchhiking student for a weekend of sailing. The sea becomes an arena for desire, menace and deadly games. [19 Jan 2007, p.C3]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Election
    Entertaining but frustratingly uneven.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Memento
    A puzzle movie in which the puzzle is actually worth the time and effort to solve.
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