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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. Smooth Talk
    Nearly everything that is right about Smooth Talk would have been impossible to obtain by conventional Hollywood film- manufacture. The film's appeal, including that of the performances, is in nuance and intermediate shades. That appeal is considerable, another reminder of the possibilities of the American independent film. [9 May 1986, p.43]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. The Picture of Dorian Gray
    It's the film for which Albright painted a series of progressively decaying portraits of Dorian, climaxing in a ghastly vision of venereal rot and putrescence. [27 Feb 1997, p.11B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. An Affair to Remember
    A perfectly balanced blend of romance in exotic settings (shipboard, in Italy) and the trauma-drama of accident and heartbreak. [08 Aug 1999, p.23]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. The Legend of Ochi
    The movie is tightly packed with incident, maybe overpacked, but Saxon’s fairy tale is an intense, lived-in experience, its centuries-old folkloric atmosphere dotted with all the usual intrusive elements of progress.
  5. The Green Knight
    Lowery creates a spiritual cousin to Shakespeare’s Prince Hal, torn between taverns and common folk and his highborn destiny. There’s a lot here, either on the surface or bubbling beneath it. In its Christianity vs. paganism square-off, The Green Knight lands on a note (and an event) very different from the poem’s.
  6. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    The best material, however, keeps returning to the unstable power dynamic between Q-Tip and Dawg.
  7. The Great Mouse Detective
    What it all comes down to is the basic question: Is this just a movie for children? Not really. It's more a movie for the childlike--of any age. [02 July 1986, p.3C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Into Great Silence
    A film of great spiritual intensity and haunting minimalism that enlarges your concepts of movies and of life. Like the monks of the Carthusian order, it distills something intoxicating through a style that's pure and rigorous.
  9. The Babadook
    Here's one of the strongest feature film debuts in a long time, in any genre.
  10. The Dreamers
    Ablaze with poetry and danger, and suffused with an odd kind of intellectual kitsch.
  11. The Score
    It's a summit meeting between three brilliant leading men from three generations with three striking on-screen personas.
  12. Michael Jordan to the Max
    For any of you who've ever daydreamed of playing hoops with Jordan, Michael Jordan to the Max is almost certainly the closest you'll ever get.
  13. Blaze
    Movies about reckless, chemically addled men rarely have the nerve to go whole hog with the bad behavior, because it makes for alienating company. Still: Blaze comes closer than most to an honest look at this sort of troubadour and this kind of life.
  14. Mississippi Grind
    Reynolds and Mendelsohn could not be more different actors, but in this pairing they are perfect.
  15. Call Me by Your Name
    Chalamet is excellent, saving his purest acting for the killer final shot several minutes in length, when we finally see what these weeks with Oliver have meant to him.
  16. How She Move
    Mainly it’s a very solid dance picture, which is the point.
  17. Earth Girls Are Easy
    There isn't a better time at the movies right now than Earth Girls Are Easy, a delirious pop musical directed by Julien Temple as a widescreen swirl of color and high spirits.
  18. Closer
    Few directors are more adept at playing with all this anguish and exhilaration than Mike Nichols.
  19. Corpse Bride
    If "Nightmare" was a jazzy pop number, "Bride" is a waltz--an elegant, deadly funny bit of macabre matrimony.
  20. Prince Avalanche
    Here's a funny, poignant oddball of a movie, existing on a galaxy far, far away from the likes of "Pacific Rim" or "World War Z" or anything whose computer-generated actions speak louder than words.
  21. Prophet's Prey
    The movie finds what solace it can in giving voice to those who escaped this church's grasp.
  22. The Crying Game
    A crackling good movie. [18 Dec 1992]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. The Hurt Locker
    Vivid, assured and extremely suspenseful.
  24. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    This is an exceptional film about nearly unendurable circumstances, endured. You will come out the other side of it a markedly enriched filmgoer.
  25. Familiar Touch
    Without exposition dumps or pressurized contrivance, Friedland reveals facets of Ruth’s life, scene by scene, in the 85 minutes of screen time.
  26. Ruthless People
    Ruthless People contains some of the biggest laughs of 1986.
  27. Last Days
    The poetry of Last Days has a stoned grandeur.
  28. Tony Takitani
    It's a film for specialized tastes, quiet, delicate. But it suits those tastes beautifully.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    House of Games
    Directing his first feature film, playwright David Mamet has accomplished the seemingly impossible: His dark and gripping House of Games is at once perfectly faithful to the world of his stage work and a fully realized piece of cinema.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. The Sea
    The Sea isn't just brooding Scandinavian domestic tragedy, a lesser Bergman-Ibsen pastiche. It's also hilarious and rowdy, and it plays with our sympathies and expectations in such surprising ways, with such brilliant actors, it's easy to see why it won the equivalent of eight Icelandic Oscars.
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