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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. She's All That
    Rachael Leigh Cook, as Laney, the plain Jane object of the makeover, is forced to demonstrate the biggest emotional range as a character, and she is equal to the assignment. I look forward to seeing her in her next picture. [29 Jan 1999, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Sinners
    Sinners is all over the place yet somehow all of a piece. Its themes aren’t new, but the variations feel fresh.
  3. Tim's Vermeer
    It's an odd film, ultimately rewarding, because it's about an odd venture.
  4. Absolute Beginners
    It remains an engaging, energetic film. [22 Jan 1987, p.9B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. mother!
    The inevitable disappointing CinemaScore exit polls aside, it’s worth seeing — if you don’t mind a little insanity in escapism that offers no escape, only the promise of a new fairy tale on another page.
  6. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    It’s a lively and absorbing picture — intelligently sexy, tastefully salacious but serious enough to stick.
  7. Boomerang
    Boomerang, a sleek, confident and very funny urban comedy that may not entirely overcome Murphy's more discomfiting tendencies, but at least manages to put them to good use. [01 Jul 1992]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. The Naked Kiss
    Fuller amusingly mixes up his usual hard-knuckled muck-raking melodrama with a sort of soap opera, all done in raw, awesome black-and-white images. In its day, this was the locus classicus B-Movie American auteur thriller. [12 Feb 1999, p.R]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Ends strong, in an ultimately smoother, smarter sequel.
  10. Don't Come Knocking
    There's something a little absurd about this story, but for me, it's endearingly goofy.
  11. Bellflower
    A rewardingly twisted hybrid of low-fi mumblecore and stylized thriller.
  12. Batman
    Burton's direction rises to a Wagnerian hysteria (an impression backed by Danny Elfman`s roaring orchestral score) as the two mortal enemies fight it out on the brink of a zillion-foot drop. Burton achieves a genuine majesty at that moment-though he would need one or two more like it to make Batman a genuinely memorable film.
  13. Renegades
    Renegades steams along very nicely, with more than enough momentum to compensate for the callowness of its stars. [05 Jun 1989, p.3C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Praying with Lior
    Trachtman says she made the film to illustrate the plight of disabled Americans who must contend with houses of worship that lack handicapped access, but her documentary itself isn’t always so sensitive.
  15. Avatar
    The first 90 minutes of Avatar are pretty terrific - a full-immersion technological wonder with wonders to spare. The other 72 minutes, less and less terrific.
  16. The Meddler
    The smooth, cozy charm of writer-director Lorene Scafaria's "The Meddler" offers considerable seriocomic satisfaction.
  17. Cedar Rapids
    Modest in every way, the screenplay by Phil Johnston is enjoyable in the telling even when the details smack of contrivance.
  18. Highest 2 Lowest
    A model of conventional thriller suspense, the movie isn’t. A stimulating cry for “Black culture and artistic integrity,” in King’s words, and for the true value of a well-made commodity, whether it’s shoes or songs — that, the movie surely is.
  19. Mean Creek
    If Estes' future efforts can offer us such potent, character-centered Molotov cocktails, Mean Creek may well signal the rise of America's next auteur director.
  20. 5x2
    When you piece it all together, it becomes mildly fascinating.
  21. Shaft
    The new movie, like its predecessor, is a crime thriller with a moral viewpoint, an eye and ear for street color and a taste for macho movie fantasy.
  22. Let Him Go
    A 1960s-set Western laden with big skies, steady gazes and slow-roasted narrative corn, Let Him Go gets by on the strength of its female leads, Diane Lane and Lesley Manville. Kevin Costner’s effective, too, and he’s right in his taciturn sweet spot, muttering about this and that.
  23. The Science of Sleep
    It only works about half the time, but it's an interesting half.
  24. Like Crazy
    It's entirely possible, maybe even inevitable, that Like Crazy will win over a good many moviegoers despite its bouts of semipreciousness. In the end, I was one of them.
  25. King Lear
    If Godard's use of sound is as inventive as it was in his Dolby "Detective" of 1985, that's reason alone to check it out. [08 Apr 1988, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. The Edge of Heaven
    It's a vivid ensemble experience, and the acting is wonderful.
  27. Anything's Possible
    Porter and his ingratiating actors do all they can to humanize the material. The movie works because a lot of that material is engaging and genuinely humane to begin with.
  28. Glengarry Glen Ross
    It's a well written, well staged and well acted piece, though there is something musty in its aesthetic - that of the huge, bellowing method performance, plastered over a flimsy, one-set world. [02 Oct 1992, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Fast Color
    Hart and Horowitz's script connects the dots on the meaning and messages of the film, which is thrilling in its radicalism. But the execution is heavy-handed, sapping the joy of discovery from the film packed with so much originality, brilliance and beauty to be discovered.
  30. The Night Listener
    The pacing and staging of the later scenes could use a little more electricity and momentum, and a little less restraint. Yet The Night Listener keeps you watching. And listening.
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