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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 Social Network
    Is director David Fincher's film the stuff of greatness? Not quite. But the picture is very, very good.
  2. The Road to El Dorado
    It has a jokey irreverence that keeps it from teetering over the edge to absurdity.
  3. Memento
    A puzzle movie in which the puzzle is actually worth the time and effort to solve.
  4. Synecdoche, New York
    As a director, Kaufman isn't yet his own best salesman. He's not enough of a visual stylist to sell his script's most challenging conceits. But the cast rises to a very strange and rich occasion.
  5. The Witches of Eastwick
    The Witches of Eastwick is filmmaking of a very high order; it's also a great time at the movies.
  6. Startup.com
    Combining the immediacy of the Internet and the wise perspective of history, Startup.com proves that investing in real-life drama can reap rich dividends.
  7. Zappa
    In Zappa, this legendary artist’s uncompromising nature is bracing, bold and utterly refreshing.
  8. Song Sung Blue
    There’s an important lesson at the center of Song Sung Blue, about abandoning self-consciousness in a relentless pursuit of a dream. Despite the obstacles, their age, the setbacks, there is a pot of gold, not at the end of the rainbow but within it, in their shared dream.
  9. Moonrise Kingdom
    First-time Anderson performers such as Willis, McDormand and especially Norton fold effortlessly into the melancholy end-of-summer vibe.
  10. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    Somehow, An Inconvenient Sequel is empowering, not depressing.
  11. One Fine Morning
    Death, dying, hearts in winter, the thrill of a sexual reawakening: Sandra’s life, as “One Fine Morning” delineates, makes room for it all because it must. Hers is an ordinary life, in the end, full of small, extraordinary grace notes. Thanks to both filmmaker and star, it’s a consistently screenworthy one.
  12. A Cry in the Dark
    Director Fred Schepisi manages his outdoor and courtroom scenes with equal skill. But at the center is Streep, far less mannered than in some of her recent work. [11 Nov 1988, p.A]
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  13. Every Little Step
    It's a big ice cream sundae, this one -- not great documentary filmmaking but tasty all the way.
  14. Cast Away
    An adventure movie of extraordinary simplicity and power.
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  15. Searching for Bobby Fischer
    An uncommonly good sports film about an uncommon sport as far as film is concerned - chess. [13 Aug 1993, p.C2]
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  16. JFK
    Does JFK capture the truth? Possibly, in a poetic sense. Is it a compelling film? Most assuredly. [20 Dec 1991]
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  17. Fair Play
    I’m not sure the story’s resolution entirely serves what comes before it; it’s not predictable, exactly, and it avoids turning into a different sort of genre just for thrills, yet Domont’s writing and direction are both skillful enough to make me want a few extra minutes in the final round.
  18. In the Loop
    While director Armando Iannucci's brand of satire -- just plausible enough to be painful -- isn't for all tastes, it's a little bit of heaven to hear screen characters spew such eloquently vicious bile.
  19. The Lost City of Z
    This is a really good film. It just isn't the traditionally rousing one many will expect, and the trailers promise.
  20. Pete's Dragon
    [Lowery] has made a larger, very different movie without losing his instincts, his directorial stealth or his ability to finesse his actors' performances, in this case in the vicinity of an achingly expressive and unexpectedly furry dragon with a little bit of bulldog in him.
  21. West Side Story
    Whatever this new adaptation’s popular reception, it’s five times the movie the ‘61 movie was. Spielberg has never made a musical before, but this one looks and feels like the work of an Old Hollywood master of the form — someone who knows when, where and why to move a camera capturing bodies in rhythmic motion.
  22. The Sessions
    John Hawkes is wonderful as O'Brien, as is Helen Hunt as the surrogate whose sessions with O'Brien form the crux of the film. The results are extremely moving and, in general, low on egregiously yanked heartstrings or the usual biopic filler.
  23. A Beautiful Mind
    Though the role might seem a real stretch for an actor who just won an Oscar for his Charlton Heston turn as Maximus in "Gladiator," he and the movie ace the test.
  24. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    A vital and wily seriocomic odyssey. And Gere has never been better, more alive, on screen.
  25. Fallen Leaves
    Fallen Leaves, by contrast, strikes an adroit balance between dark and light, stoicism and optimism. There’s a stealth buoyancy at work.
  26. Ju Dou
    A beautifully directed melodrama similar to Hollywood pictures of the golden era. [22 Dec 1991, p.5C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. The Full Monty
    Takes a premise that seems ripe for broad, vulgar joking and turns it into a sly, even subtle, comedy.
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  28. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    A counterintuitive, riveting documentary so honest that it will either become a rock movie classic or a severe embarrassment for the heavy metal band.
  29. Sunshine State
    Visually, even compared to Sayles' own best work, it's somewhat prosaic - and dramatically, it suffers from the fact that its two main characters are kept so far apart. But the screenwriting and the cast redeem this film.
  30. Last Resort
    A film that celebrates simple human kindness. If the ending feels somewhat unsatisfying, it is perhaps because one hates to see this too-brief film end at all.
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