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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. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
    A bittersweet comedy about the great sleuth's great love and the one case he couldn't handle. [07 Jan 2000, p.L]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. The Royal Hotel
    Green has made two very different, extraordinarily efficient and compact movies in a row. That, too, may look easy but is anything but — unless you’re a filmmaker and writer of her particular gifts.
  3. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    Pretty-near pure gold.
  4. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    The film is shockingly violent and bloody, but there are also profoundly poetic moments and images that pop up like wildflowers in a field.
  5. Out of Time
    It's a twisty, hell-for-leather crime thriller, and director Carl Franklin gives it all the slick, modern trimmings.
  6. Millions
    One of the more delightful and satisfying family movies.
  7. The Big Easy
    The film's strength is director Jim McBride's seemingly easy way of presenting us with a New Orleans that is more malevolent and intoxicating than the tourist trap that some think it to be.
  8. La Ciénaga
    Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel takes fundamental risks with form and style, and it pays off brilliantly.
  9. Space Cowboys
    Ends up working like a charm.
  10. Knives Out
    Even with some padding, it’s a whodunit canny enough to take the human stakes inside the artifice seriously. And that allows a fine ensemble of side-eye champs the leeway to make Knives Out funny, too.
  11. After Yang
    There are moments in the second half of After Yang when some of the narrative beats get a little confusing or vague. Kogonada’s steady, often still, but never static compositions may not be enough for some viewers. Whatever. Clearly, actors respond to what he’s after.
  12. The Iron Giant
    An animated tale equipped with heart, humor, blazing action and not a sappy song in earshot.
  13. Remember the Titans
    Works better and cuts deeper than the mostly fictionalized "Hoosiers."
  14. The Host
    The tone of The Host is slippery in the best way; you're never sure if you're in for a joke or a shock, yet nothing feels random.
  15. Lion
    The beauty of Lion is that it explores and allows for the unique possibilities and power of multiple homes, multiple families and multiple selves.
  16. The New World
    Malick's nature documentarian impulse has never been more flagrant than in The New World, yet it has never made more organic sense. The film, which is superb on every technical and design level, has both greatness and fuzzy-headedness in it.
  17. Limbo
    At its worst, Limbo is ersatz Conrad. But at its best, the film makes us feel that uncertainty and darkness, casting us into the cul-de-sac of modern life and love. [04 Jun 1999, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Something to Talk About
    Something to Talk About, which is something to see, makes us a delectable present of its own bright, brawling little world: wisecracks, venomous Charity Leagues, horse shows, last dances, skeleton-filled closets and all. [4 Aug 1995, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Little Miss Sunshine
    Funny, and thoughtful, and deeply, viscerally satisfying.
  20. The Hudsucker Proxy
    In The Hudsucker Proxy, the filmmaking Coen brothers make dark, startling, wittily extravagant sport of the American Dream. The movie is opulent and wry, a bitingly intelligent fable about business and romance. [25 Mar 1994, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Paranoid Park
    “Elephant” may have won the Palme d’Or at Cannes but it really didn’t have anything to say about anything. Modest and artful, Paranoid Park says a great deal.
  22. Rita, Sue and Bob Too
    Like "My Beautiful Laundrette," "Rita, Sue and Bob, Too" imagines an untraditional romantic relationship, outside the bounds of monogamy and exclusive heterosexuality, as the only effective alternative to a social structure that has reached the end of the line. [02 Oct 1987, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Mikey and Nicky
    By the time Mikey and Nicky reaches its conclusion, the film stands by itself as one of the few pictures to approximate the sloppiness, the randomness, the serendipity of life. [26 Apr 1985, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. The Tailor of Panama
    Like a Bach toccata or a frosty drink on a sunlit veranda, a first-class movie spy thriller can offer one of life's cooler, more elegant treats. The Tailor of Panama fits that category.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Vengeance Is Mine
    Icily brilliant.
  26. Gaslight
    Somewhat illogical but full of terrifyingly sustained sado-masochistic emotion. [05 Dec 1997, p.L]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Get Low
    This film, calm but full of feeling, relays an intriguing story brought to life by some beautiful actors.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nothing Like the Holidays
    It's what we need at the holidays, and it's the modest goal of a modest little picture like this--to capture something heartfelt and real.
  29. Hot Tub Time Machine
    Accomplishes what "Snakes on a Plane" did not: It offers a merrily idiotic movie to go with its willfully idiotic title.
  30. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    With husband and wife starring, you can't help but wonder which details here are autobiographical. No matter: This is obviously a deeply personal work for Attal, whose comic timing and passion can only serve him well both on screen and off.
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