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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. Meek's Cutoff
    The film is not for the frantic of spirit. Its steady rhythm and even-handed tone threaten occasionally to stultify. But little things mean a lot in this universe, as they should.
  2. Lawless Heart
    So well crafted, so original, that each overlapping scene swells with new life and interpretation.
  3. My Bodyguard
    An engaging yarn about a wealthy kid who learns to fight his way out of trouble in a rough Chicago public school. He also learns not to believe in labels placed on people. [19 Dec 1980, p.10]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Thirteen
    An excellent, unforgettable film.
  5. The Brutalist
    The Brutalist is many things: some blunt, others loose and dangling, still others richly provocative, most of them remarkable.
  6. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
    While there are plenty of influences afoot, ranging from Jenkins to Terrence Malick to Toni Morrison, “All Dirt Roads” is guided, fragment by fragment, by a new director’s way of seeing and listening to a woman’s life — in all its puzzle pieces.
  7. Funny Games
    Funny Games is an intellectual's suspense film, which ultimately tries to critique and demystify violence. But, since our responses are never all cerebral, that's not entirely possible.
  8. Rock School
    Hilarious, inspired, frenzied.
  9. Life Is Sweet
    An off-center, lighthearted but perceptive study of people following their dreams in the only way they know how, Life Is Sweet-the title is only somewhat ironic-is a warm and joyful piece, with the tossed-off hilarity smoothly giving way to poignance in its darker final segments.
  10. Night on Earth
    In Night on Earth, Jarmusch is painting with colors he has never used before. The transformation is thrilling.
  11. Blood Diamond
    A visually sumptuous, bullet-train-paced thriller with a really provocative theme.
  12. The Red Turtle
    The grace, elegance, carefully muted color palette and gradual acknowledgment of life's milestones lift The Red Turtle far above the average so-called "family-friendly" animation.
  13. Miami Blues
    A brilliant comeback by a filmmaker, George Armitage, who never should have been away.
  14. Samurai Rebellion
    Ferocious action saga about an old samurai (Mifune) taking a stand against his lord's cruelty and injustice. [03 Mar 2006, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    It's not a hasty, knocked-together promo job--though it is clearly pro-Kerry.
  16. Raising Victor Vargas
    In the tradition of indie films "Girlfight" and "George Washington," Sollett's emotive, sub-improvising style leads to pitch-perfect performances from a watertight cast in a loose, joyfully fresh film.
  17. The Cider House Rules
    A deliberately old-fashioned picture that succeeds in nearly everything it tries to do.
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Joe Gould's Secret
    A wonderful, heart-breaking movie.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
    Swinging gleefully on a sun-soaked afternoon, crafting strangely intoxicating phrases, O’Day could do no wrong on that afternoon at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island in 1958.
  20. Carnage
    Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame.
  21. Lost in Translation
    Dislocated from their native country and former lives, Bob and Charlotte come to establish a language of their own. Coppola has done the same, proving she boasts one of today's truly distinct filmmaking voices.
  22. Panic
    Graced by bleak, stylized direction and an insightful ending that suggests that nothing ever really ends, this first feature film by "Northern Exposure" and "Homicide" writer and producer Bromell is a promising debut.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Me and Orson Welles
    A real charmer, Me and Orson Welles is the work of a director who takes nostalgia, romantic possibility and the theater seriously, without being a pill about it.
  24. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Conran has got himself a looker, with Paltrow in soft focus, the whole world larger than life and a title that, said in the proper low-pitched voice, conveys the tone of the film: exuberant, idiosyncratic and timeless.
  25. The Wages of Fear (1953)
    One of the most deeply and disturbingly nihilistic films ever made, as well as one of the most heart-pounding thrillers. [06 Mar 1992, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
      • Posted Jul 1, 2020
  26. Marley
    It all flows from the shum. The man's musical and political influence was no illusion.
  27. The Double Hour
    I've seen the fabulously acted Italian thriller The Double Hour twice now, and for all its intricate manipulations, it stays with me for a very simple reason: The love story at its bittersweet heart is played for keeps.
  28. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The Zellweger-Firth-Grant triangle works as irresistibly as Hepburn-Grant-Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story."
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. The Cave of the Yellow Dog
    Children and animals, if they're handled right, can be among the great natural movie actors, and in The Cave of the Yellow Dog, writer-director Byambasuren Davaa handles her cast of youngsters and creatures (and a few adults) heartwarmingly well.
  30. Drugstore Cowboy
    A study of junkie culture from the inside (not a fashionable point of view these days), Drugstore Cowboy is funny, depressive and strangely noble, often all at once. [27 Oct 1989]
    • Chicago Tribune
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