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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. Read My Lips
    A finely written, superbly acted offbeat thriller.
  2. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Scorsese has rendered a tragic, forlorn piece of American history, indebted equally to classical Hollywood craftsmanship and the director’s own obsessions with honor, guilt, family, criminal codes and America’s centuries of greedy bloodshed.
  3. Jungle Fever
    Another important, risk-taking film from Spike Lee.
  4. In My Country
    A stirring, large-souled movie.
  5. Farewell
    This complicated but absorbing tale is not told through primarily American eyes ( Willem Dafoe plays a CIA. figurehead); primarily it's about French and Soviet brinksmanship, and those who succeeded at it, or failed, and one man who died for the risks he took.
  6. 3:10 to Yuma
    Based on an Elmore Leonard story: the classic suspense western in which a desperate farmer (Van Heflin), trying to save his spread, hires on to transport a sardonic outlaw chief (Glenn Ford) to Yuma. [25 Jul 2008, p.C8]
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  7. The Little Mermaid
    It may not be a transcendent masterpiece of the Disney canon, but The Little Mermaid is still very heartening: It suggests the Disney magic isn't lost after all.
  8. ABC Africa
    Lovely, heart-stirring film.
  9. Man Bites Dog
    It's not closed text, but a work of art that needles and disturbs. [14 May 1993, p.H2]
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  10. Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
    To millions, Stritch is the Emmy-winning actress who did "30 Rock," playing Alec Baldwin's mom. Those people who don't know the rest of her story should take the 82 minutes to see this.
  11. Other People
    The moments between mother and son are some of the most intimate and moving of the film.
  12. Faces Places
    This movie, a diary of a freewheeling, far-flung installation art project, combines chance and intuition and a humane eye.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Price of Sugar
    Explores an unheralded but emotionally affecting issue in a straight-forward and engaging manner.
  14. School of Rock
    The movie is the cinematic equivalent of a near-perfect three-minute pop song. It makes you laugh, smile and tap your toes over a brisk 88 minutes, and when it's finished, you're ready to hit repeat.
  15. The White Diamond
    One of the year's best documentaries.
  16. Pride & Prejudice
    At the end, director Wright wraps the whole thing up with a fairy-tale coda more Shakespearean than Austen-tine. Yet it all works.
  17. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    Much will be resolved by the final chapter of the trilogy, to be directed by Abrams. As much as I enjoy his brand of canny populism, I prefer Rian Johnson’s wilder, generous, far-flung imagination.
  18. Mad Dog and Glory
    Mad Dog and Glory was directed by John McNaughton, who wisely lets many scenes run to the point of being uncomfortable, just like his characters are with each other. Everything about this movie seems fresh. [5 Mar 1993, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Heist
    Mamet takes exactly those qualities that we most prize in genre movies -- characters, cleverness and high style -- and refines them to a high shine.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. The Keys to the House
    Though "Keys" is not Amelio's best, it has an emotional power almost equal to anything he's done.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Donovan's Reef
    Big, bright, corny, muscular, beautifully photographed. [12 Nov 2000, p.27]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. The Shawshank Redemption
    This is a movie with every facet shining in place, every word charged and resonant. [23 Sept 1994]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Dig!
    Anton, because after watching your tantrums, abuse and addiction in DIG! I went straight to the record store to buy your music. And that's something.
  24. Son of the Bride
    It's fresh, funny, biting, fast-paced and reasonably perceptive about people and their problems.
  25. The Iceman Cometh
    One of the best American Film Theatre production is a potent transcription of Eugene O'Neill's great barroom drama, set in 1912, with Lee Marvin as doomed gladhander Hickey--a role made famous on stage by Jason Robards--and a matchless supporting cast. [31 Oct 2003, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Queen & Slim
    Whipsawing between hope and devastation, Queen & Slim speaks to this specific cultural moment. It's not with a grounded realism, but with an almost operatic sense of melodrama, in the writing, performances and with Matsouka's daring cinematic style, where beauty and politics are inextricably intertwined.
  27. Michael Clayton
    Michael Clayton is a here’s-how-it-happened drama, cleverly but not over-elaborately structured.
  28. The Counterfeiters
    Swift and compelling, winner of this year’s Oscar for best foreign-language picture, The Counterfeiters may not be destined for the large international audience that embraced last year’s winner, “The Lives of Others.” But it’s the better, tougher film, with a more provocative moral dilemma at its center.
  29. The Girl Cut in Two
    Keeps you off-balance as it establishes a world where every conversation is a flirtation, and trouble and heartbreak sneak in on little cat feet when no one's looking.
  30. Tokyo Godfathers
    A spellbinding piece of Japanese anime from one of the form's new masters, director-writer Satoshi Kon.
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