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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 Crucible
    Nothing in the movie is quite up to Scofield's Danforth. But what a mighty performance that is.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Goodbye to Language 3D
    The National Society of Film Critics recently cited Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language, the nuttiest lil' picture ever released in 3-D, as the best film of 2014, nosing out "Boyhood" by a single vote.
  3. The French Dispatch
    In his fastidious, exacting, extraordinarily blinkered creation, writer-director Anderson this time has driven straight into a cul-de-sac, stranding every sort of good and great actor in the cinematic equivalent of a design meeting.
  4. Lost in La Mancha
    You can interpret Lost in La Mancha as a sort of triumph of the creative spirit. Gilliam's darkest gallows humor always comes with a smile.
  5. Blue Velvet
    One powerful, mesmerizing thriller, a masterful exercise in controlling an audience's attention. [19 September 1986, Friday, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Infernal Affairs
    It's hard to breathe in Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs, a relentlessly taut Hong Kong cop thriller that, unlike many of its cinematic peers, doesn't burn off tension in choreographed action sequences.
  7. Bernie
    As composite sketches go, it's a good one.
  8. Road to Morocco
    Perhaps the most typical of all the "Road" pictures: melodic, low-pressure, funny. [02 Apr 2000, p.C38]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Bridesmaids
    Wiig's natural and savvy instincts to go easy, and let the audience come to her, serve her and Bridesmaids well.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    The film itself is such a measured primer of talking heads and footage -- a broad, slick Tibet 101 -- that it seems better suited to the classroom than the big screen, despite its Himalayan scenery and rustic colors.
  11. The Invisible Woman
    Even if you don't entirely buy this version of events, director Ralph Fiennes has given us a speculation that works as drama. It's an elegant bit of goods.
  12. Tully
    At its spiky, intermittent best, Tully is the best work Cody has done in the conventional feature format since “Juno.” And yet I’m all over the place on it.
  13. Elizabeth
    The movie -- directed in such a frenziedly self-conscious style you often wonder whether the camera will topple over on his actors.
  14. The Muppets
    At its best, though, The Muppets cuts back on the '80s-flashback self-consciousness and believes in the dream.
  15. Darkest Hour
    Darkest Hour pulls from both extremes of Oldman’s prodigious but often unexploited skill set, the subtlety as well as the flamboyance.
  16. The Automat
    True to the egalitarian allure of the restaurant chain itself, Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary The Automat is both a touching farewell and a fond hello-again for those old enough to remember the salisbury steak, creamed spinach and peach pie behind those little windows of nickel-fed discovery.
  17. An Inconvenient Truth
    The film's context and talking points are more interesting than the film itself, which settles for an earnest (though rarely dull) nudge in its chosen direction: PowerPoint cinema.
  18. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    It's a thriller that comes at you with gut-clutching ferocity, spewing blood and sex, shaking you up and scrambling your responses.
  19. Shrek 2
    Shrek is something of a poignant hero here and not terribly ogre-like; Myers obviously wasn't being paid per giggle generated. Diaz's Fiona feels increasingly fleshed out, while the "annoying talking animals" provide most of the laughs.
  20. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    A masterpiece of wry violence and stylized mayhem, The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi turns loose one of Japan's most brilliant film auteurs, Takeshi Kitano, on one of its most enduring pop legends.
  21. Lady Vengeance
    A comedy of evil and strange redemption, Lady Vengeance makes sure that we feel the pain, that we know what it's like to unreasonably suffer, because those are the rules of its mad, wounding, vengeful world.
  22. Enchanted
    Through good scenes and derivative ones, Adams is disarming.
  23. Lawless Heart
    So well crafted, so original, that each overlapping scene swells with new life and interpretation.
  24. I'll See You in My Dreams
    It's a relief — even though the movie isn't much — to see Danner in a leading role on screen again.
  25. The Professionals
    Exciting, beautifully shot '60s political western. [10 Apr 1998, p.M]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Spy
    The fun of Spy comes in watching the right actors mess with their own images, blithely.
  27. Lilo & Stitch
    Despite its charms, and the refreshingly non-traditional characters, Lilo & Stitch seems diluted and too derivative to be as effective as one wants it to be.
  28. An Unreasonable Man
    Mantel and Skrovan's documentary astutely reminds us of why we need the world's Naders. It's a reasonable movie about an often admirably unreasonable man.
  29. 24 City
    The stories we hear in 24 City belong to its specific place, but they are universal.
  30. Casualties of War
    DePalma`s camera is relatively restrained-for him-and the result is a small movie that looks more like an outdoor stage play than an exercise in freewheeling combat. Penn`s performance has resonances of Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro in their Vietnam films; Fox gains credibility as the movie progresses.
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