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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. Iron Monkey
    The characters may be speaking Chinese, but such rousing entertainment needs no translation.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Heat
    A love-hate poem to L.A., and when Mann takes in the streets, the freeways and LAX, he doesn't give us shiny "Lethal Weapon"-style travelogues. He shows us an L.A. that's grim, bare, a bit smoggy and ruled by street smarts. [15 Dec 1995]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. White Hunter Black Heart
    After White Hunter there is no doubt that Eastwood is one of our most committed filmmakers, and perhaps our most profoundly introspective. [14 Sep 1990, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Talk Radio
    The film has a purposefully repellent but fascinating quality. Bogosian`s performance, based on his stage play, is spectacularly demented.
  5. The Plot Against Harry
    Roemer's comic style draws brilliantly on the '60s vein of twitchy psychological realism first explored by Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and his humor is backed by a fine eye for sociological detail. [16 Feb 1990, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Sita Sings the Blues
    Nina Paley's delicious Sita Sings the Blues finds solace in autobiography and an animated gold mine in the caverns of an ancient Sanskrit epic.
  7. The Invisible Man
    Another Universal classic, based on H.G. Wells' tale of an invisible madman. [13 Aug 2007, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Giant
    Gigante represents the sort of artful low-budget accomplishment that could, and should, be coming out of distressingly stingy Chicago once a year — whatever the subject, whatever the sensibility.
  9. David Crosby: Remember My Name
    It’s his own words, and confronting them now, having lost many of his friends to spats and fights, brings Crosby to his most vulnerable place.
  10. The Ignorant Fairies
    A work about memory and loss, His Secret Life becomes a forum of Antonia's liberation of consciousness and feeling, but there are too many contradictory moods sharing the same space, resulting in a tentativeness and uncertainty.
  11. Days of Glory
    Its social impact is part of what makes this movie memorable. But as with almost any exceptional, truthful war picture, Days of Glory moves us because we know the soldiers -- because we share their fear, triumph and pain.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Sling Blade
    Resonates like the best of Southern fiction.
  13. The Mother and the Whore
    For anyone who wants to see pure cinema, it should be an experience both wrenching and inspiring. [22 Jan 1999, p.H]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Faraway, So Close!
    In Faraway, So Close we watch a city being reborn, an angel trapped in melodrama and a dream dying. All are moving. [23 Dec 1993, p.10N]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Full Metal Jacket
    The film has undeniable power, but it's an unusual and unsettling power, a product of a collision between red-hot material and the cool serenity with which Kubrick observes and accepts it. [26 June 1987]
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Adaptation.
    There's only one proper Hollywood ending to this story. Next year, Charlie and the surreal "Donald" Kaufman (listed as co-writers in the playful credits) should win twin Oscars for best adapted screenplay. They've earned it -- really.
  17. 7 Boxes
    You wait for months, sometimes, for a movie to show you something new. "7 Boxes" does exactly that, and while it's no more than a briskly managed bit of escapism, it's a really good example of same.
  18. Hell or High Water
    What the movie has, above all, is a dramatic line, clean and straight. In its faces, its scenery and its plain satisfactions it makes us feel like we've been somewhere, when we get to the end of that line.
  19. Magic Mike
    One of the pleasures of Magic Mike is its egalitarian spirit and dedication to the ensemble.
  20. The World's Fastest Indian
    Fast, funny, big-hearted.
  21. In America
    Family life rarely is portrayed with such warmth, clarity and vibrancy as in In America.
  22. Control
    A highly exciting, visually alive thriller.
  23. Winter Solstice
    All three men turn in superb and understated performances.
  24. Titan A.E.
    A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements.
  25. Mrs Henderson Presents
    A dear film, sentimental and fond, full of beautifully acted British resolve.
  26. 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.
  27. Divine Intervention
    About the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it treats war as a cosmic joke and its participants as hapless but recognizably human clowns.
  28. Little Buddha
    You might not think of this as a family film, but it is a great one. [27 May 1994, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. The Salesman
    The acting is wonderful throughout, but Alidoosti creates an especially haunting depiction of one woman's adversities in a country, and a marriage, that may not have her best interests at heart.
  30. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Most movingly, Monsieur Ibrahim takes a provocative subject -- friendship and love between a Jew and a Muslim -- and makes it seem natural and wondrous.
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