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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. An Angel at My Table
    This is filmmaking at the very peak of the medium`s potential.
  2. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    It’s a strange, grimly comic collection offering many grotesque sight gags, the occasional moment of seriousness and a general wash of melancholic, photogenic, elegiac Old West atmosphere. I liked the least jokey tale the best; by the time it came along, in the fifth-out-of-six slot, I’d had it with the kidding.
  3. Fourteen
    But for the performances, and for just about everything Sallitt is up to, the film nonetheless feels full and true.
  4. The Visitor
    Jenkins and The Visitor”make lovely music together. It’s a case of a veteran character actor slipping on a leading role like the most comfortable pair of pants in the world.
  5. Harvey
    Jimmy Stewart's signature role as amiably soused Elwood P. Dowd, who navigates his way through a contentious and mercenary world with the aid of his best friend, the invisible 6-foot-3-inch rabbit Harvey. [27 Jun 2008, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Iron Man
    As big-budget comic book adaptations go, this one's a gratifying freak--the right kind of conflicted, as well as quick-witted. It's a lot of fun.
  7. Control Room
    Control Room isn't a systematic dissection of Al Jazeera's possible biases regarding the U.S. or Israel; it's noted that Arabs almost invariably view the war with Iraq in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while Americans rarely do.
  8. Silent Light
    Even with its limitations, I find Silent Light spellbinding.
  9. How to Have Sex
    Already, McKenna-Bruce can work wonders in terms of assured technique and complicated emotions and she’s magically right as Tara.
  10. Salaam Bombay!
    It still had some juice a few years ago, when it was Hector Babenco's "Pixote," but "Salaam Bombay!" is a disturbingly professional, self-assured piece of work. [28 Oct 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. The People vs. Larry Flynt
    There's a gentleness and open-mindedness in that touch and throughout the film that's a little at odds with the shallower script. But, in the end, that humanity pays. [27 Dec 1996]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Ju Dou
    A beautifully directed melodrama similar to Hollywood pictures of the golden era. [22 Dec 1991, p.5C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Selma
    Like "Lincoln," written by Tony Kushner and directed by Steven Spielberg, DuVernay's Selma ushers us into the world of the backstage, back-room and back-scratching political process, dramatizing how the sausage was actually made.
  14. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    Is the movie fun? Well, Furiosa’s story doesn’t really welcome that word. It’s gripping, even when it’s a bit of a trudge. Miller’s a visual genius. And a pile-driver. He’s also an adult, with a mature master filmmaker’s sensibility and serious intentions to go with his eternal-adolescent love of speed and noise.
  15. Thieves
    The movie has something of treasure to offer us: two great screen actors, connecting magically. Why show an unconvincing world of crime, incest and violence when, with Deneuve and Auteuil, you can open up a richer world of intellect and thwarted desire? [27 Dec 1996, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. The Assistant
    Besides being the best American film of our new year, writer-director Kitty Green’s drama The Assistant confounds expectations and has the strange effect (on me, anyway) of simultaneously chilling and boiling the viewer’s blood.
  17. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Whatever audiences think of it, I'd say the latest "Apes" picture is just that: a solid success, sharing many of its predecessor's swift, exciting storytelling and motion-capture technology virtues.
  18. The Untouchables
    Ethics aside, the filmmaking by DePalma is stylish and alternates between shocking surprise and hold-your-breath quiet.
  19. Dead Poets Society
    A refreshing if obvious drama. [9 June 1989, Friday, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Trolösa
    82-year-old Ingmar Bergman takes one of the most painful, shameful episodes of his own life and, writing for director Liv Ullmann, transmutes it into magical, brilliant artistry.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Has moments of profound poignance, though it lacks the overall dramatic impact of "The Long Way Home."
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Affliction
    Violence may provide entertainment value in more crass or commercially minded projects, but in the unflinching world of Affliction, it leads only to the ruination of your soul. [5 February 1999, Friday, p.D]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    The movie, in the end, is devastating because of the banality it reveals, and because its terseness and plainness cut a mass killer down to size.
  24. Hustlers
    The film’s half-real, half-fantasy treatment of a fact-based story is almost really good. But “good enough” is good enough, thanks mostly to Jennifer Lopez dining out on her best role in years. She’s terrific.
  25. Let the Sunshine In
    The film itself isn’t dorky in the least. It’s an elegant and witty rumination on one woman’s quest for romantic fire.
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