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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. Street Smart
    A superb entertainment, it also has something to say.
  2. Bamako
    Sissako has an unusual camera eye, patient and alert to the ebb and flow of both the courtroom sequences and the outside scenes. The music is wonderful as well.
  3. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    Jim Walton, Ann Morrison and other original cast members talk about what the show meant to them, and how it felt (in a word: lousy) to have their dreams crash into a brick wall of harsh reviews.
  4. Spider-Man 2
    Until it develops a bad case of verbosity toward the end, it improves upon its predecessor in almost every way, delivering flashier thrills while digging deeper into its characters and adding an overlay of wit.
  5. A Talking Picture
    It's a great film that, sadly, may be ignored by all but the most dedicated, knowledgable filmgoers.
  6. Sense and Sensibility
    Thompson clearly loves this story, and, even though, she's playing the less spontaneous of the older Dashwood sisters, responsible Elinor, you can feel her spirit rising out to embrace the part. It makes her beautiful to watch. [13 December 1995]
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  7. Submarine
    Isn't merely joke-funny. It's texture-funny.
  8. Gigi
    Blithely sophisticated, would-be French naughtiness, sleek as a bolt of silk. [08 Jan 2004, p.N1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Burning
    A languorous, catlike psychological puzzle from one of the essential international masters, Lee Chang-dong.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
    The movie is awash in great performances by actors known and otherwise.
  11. The Three Musketeers
    Few adventure movies have such a heightened atmosphere of beauty, excitement and fun. [18 Apr 1999, p.34C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. The Dead Pool
    Where the previous sequels have been mostly dour gun blasts, The Dead Pool is a thriller with wit and humor and tension. [15 Jul 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Kirikou and the Wild Beasts
    Quite similar to the first film, but this is one time when a reprise is welcome. Ages 7-11, but actually, it's for everyone. [27 Oct 2006, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    A gripping documentary.
  15. Melancholia
    Much of Melancholia plays, effectively, like a slice of late 20th century Dogme-style realism, in the vein of the film "Celebration" by von Trier's fellow Dane, Thomas Vinterberg.
  16. Nowhere in Africa
    A lovely film with a deeply humane perspective.
  17. 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.
  18. Coraline
    It pulls audiences into a meticulously detailed universe, familiar in many respects, wacked and menacing in many others.
  19. Lamb
    In what is essentially a three-human story (they’re outnumbered by their animal co-stars), Rapace brings the heart and soul to every close-up.
  20. In the Valley of Elah
    Tommy Lee Jones is marvelous in the film. He has one scene in particular, a simple two-person encounter, that's as good as it gets in the realm of American screen acting.
  21. Atonement
    Hampton and Wright have been more than sensible when it comes to Atonement. They’ve responded intuitively to a tale that is half art and half potboiler, like so many stories worth telling.
  22. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
    Pulls you into a well-observed world and its characters.
  23. The Emperor's New Clothes
    One of the most clever, most enjoyable historical fantasies to hit screens in a long time, The Emperor's New Clothes is a sumptuous showcase for Ian Holm, who delivers not one but two great performances.
  24. This Is the End
    Outrageous-plus, but often hilarious.
  25. Black Bear
    It places a modern lens on complicated questions of art, love and perspective in storytelling, in an entertaining and intelligent thriller of intimate proportions.
  26. Lassie
    The new Lassie is faithful to Knight's story, capturing its sweep, Dickensian social contrasts and high emotion. All that is enhanced by a splendid cast.
  27. Turning Red
    Turning Red is pure Pixar in its imaginative clash of genres and impulses. Yet it’s something new, too, its own cultural- and gender-specific creation. I’m eager to see what Shi does next, metaphorically and every other way.
  28. Drag Me to Hell
    Raimi knows how to modulate his technique, as with the coolly controlled morality tale "A Simple Plan," but he's a firm believer in the power of an active, expressive camera, as well as the value of insinuation.
  29. Fish Tank
    A remarkable downer-upper paradox: a bruising tale of teenage resilience, honest and emotionally complicated and alive.
  30. Cold Water (1994)
    As Assayas himself has pointed out, the passing years have magically transformed a movie made in 1994 into a seeming product of post-1968 cultural turbulence and unresolved matters of the heart. It feels honest, in other words.
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