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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. Touching the Void
    So well cast and well captured is Touching the Void that it suspends disbelief, making us feel as if we're actually watching Simpson's own icy version of Dante's "Inferno."
  2. Humanité
    A harsh, spellbinding tale.
  3. Hulk
    A movie likely to rally huge audiences who want to take another roller coaster ride. And though it may disappoint a few of them, it's also a film that gives you something to think and feel sad about. It smashes you -- gently.
  4. The Indian Runner
    Some of the Indian imagery in the film is arch, but the story, the acting and the tension level are of the highest order. [04 Oct 1991, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The film is really just a documentary about nomads masquerading as a feature about camels. Which is why it's okay to be distracted by the details, and perhaps why its subtext--about the younger generation's real and inevitable loss to modernity--is more effective than the storyline about the camel.
  6. Sixteen Candles
    The best teenage comedy since last year's "Risky Business."
  7. The Untouchables
    Ethics aside, the filmmaking by DePalma is stylish and alternates between shocking surprise and hold-your-breath quiet.
  8. Take My Eyes
    An extraordinarily truthful and piercing drama.
  9. Fences
    Robust, delicate, sublimely acted and a close cinematic cousin to the theatrical original, director Denzel Washington's film version of Fences makes up for a lot of overeager or undercooked stage-to-screen adaptations over the decades.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Frozen River
    Possibly one of the biggest reasons Frozen River stands out among bad-decision movies is that Ray never really tries to justify her actions.
  11. Licorice Pizza
    It’s a beautiful film to soak up as a visual and musical memory of a place that remains, and a time long gone.
  12. Citizenfour
    The film works, whatever your ethical stance on Snowden, because it's more procedural than polemic.
  13. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    Gordy barely is mentioned, even though he was the artistic leader who presumably profited most from the Funk Brothers' labors. Discussing Motown solely through the prism of the musicians is like assessing Picasso's works on the basis of the paint quality.
  14. Trainwreck
    Trainwreck is all kinds of funny, and like any talent showcase worth its salt, the tone of the humor adjusts to suit the talents on screen.
  15. Good News
    Minor but irresistible MGM musical capturing '20s college life through the prism of the jivin' '40s era. [18 Jan 2008, p.C2]
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  16. The Believer
    One of the year's most thought-provoking, hard-hitting films, gutsily opening up a subject rarely done with this kind of all-out chutzpah.
  17. Trouble in Mind
    Regardless of your interest in the technical side of filmmaking, however, if your taste runs slightly to the dark side, you'll have a very good time with "Trouble in Mind." [21 March 1986, p.AN]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Super Size Me
    The movie is zippy, laugh-out-loud funny, persuasive and at times horrifying, as Spurlock undergoes his unpleasant changes with good humor and bad tummy aches.
  19. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    It's virtually non-stop action, though director David Yates, who has taken good care of these final four, ever-meaner Potter adventures, does a very crafty thing, following adapter Steve Kloves' screenplay.
  20. Lightyear
    Lightyear’s dazzling first half showcases the wittiest comic action from the Pixar folks in many years.
  21. The Wild Pear Tree
    The Wild Pear Tree may be the one film out there with the uncanny, gorgeously ruminative ability to take you away from everything cluttering a Chicagoan’s head space right now.
  22. First Reformed
    An act of spiritual inquiry, a coolly assured example of cinematic scholarship in subtly deployed motion and one of the strongest pictures of 2018.
  23. EuroTrip
    Finally, a teen sex comedy that's funnier than both its trailer and its outtakes. More important, Eurotrip -- with its laser-guided sex toys and infectious theme song, "Scotty Doesn't Know" -- just might be the best comedy so far this year.
  24. Midnight in Paris
    Led by Wilson and Cotillard, the ensemble makes the most of the material that works, and makes the best of the rest of it.
  25. Nothing Sacred
    Amazingly cynical and howlingly funny. [13 Jan 1994, p.10]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Minnie and Moskowitz
    The wild L.A. romance of a museum curator and a parking lot attendant. [09 Jan 1998, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Alice et Martin
    It's a lovely, terrifying sight.
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. A Thousand and One
    A Thousand and One, this year’s top jury prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival, puts you through it, but with real feeling, real stakes and an authentic vision guided by a fiercely commanding performance by Teyana Taylor as Inez.
  29. The Harder They Fall
    The Harder They Fall was Bogart's final movie, and something of a lost classic. But unlike most boxing stories, this isn't about a fighter looking to overcome personal demons or beat the odds. This is an excoriating look at the underbelly and the unscrupulous wheelers and dealers behind the scenes. [19 Aug 2016, p.C3]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Windtalkers
    It's the best new battle film since "Black Hawk Down," a movie it surpasses in sheer feeling and bravura style, if not in nightmarish panic and suspense.
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