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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Lady in Red
    The 1979 crime melodrama boasts a literate John Sayles screenplay and breezy direction by Lewis Teague. Robert Conrad and Robert Forster epitomize the enduring '30s tough-guy mystique in supporting roles. [09 Jan 1992, p.6C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Like "Blade Runner," it's dense enough to be rewarding on multiple viewings, the hallmark of a classic.
  3. Mission to Mars
    One of the most gorgeous science-fiction movies ever - and probably also one of the most realistic in detail and scientific extrapolation
  4. Married to the Mob
    It's a movie of a thousand pleasures - of glinting insights and sly twists. [19 Aug 1988]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Cloverfield
    It’s dumb but quick and dirty and effectively brusque, dispensing with niceties such as character.
  6. Matchstick Men
    This movie is a model of technique, beautifully crafted, often brilliantly acted by Cage and the others, but it's a bit hollow at the center.
  7. Let Me In
    The original was a very good thriller. The new one is simply a good one.
  8. Red Dust
    An unpretentious, rowdy, lecherous good show. [28 Nov 1999, p.35]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Shark Tale
    Boasts a really spectacular cast to voice those reasonably funny jokes.
  10. Winter's Bone
    The way Lawrence captures a young woman's fear and resolve, often non-verbally, well … this is a considerable talent well on her way to a great career. It's for performances like this that moviegoers find themselves taking a chance on a title that doesn't have a fast-food tie-in.
  11. Finding Forrester
    It's rare to see a movie that takes such joy in the power of words, not to create lofty works of art but to effect the simple, necessary translation of what's in one's heart and mind.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Evening
    The film, like the book, is clear-eyed without being clinical, reflective but never maudlin.
  13. The Weight of Water
    Despite the deftness with which Bigelow handles the transitions, the modern story never attains the intrigue and tension of the period tale.
  14. The Old Guard
    All too often, the human aspect gets lost in the spectacle of an action movie. But Rucka and Prince-Bythewood foreground that element of the story to create something with stakes, intrigue and philosophical weight. They make sure this cool concept and cast are given their due, and set up a sequel too. With any luck, we'll see this world again.
  15. Magic Mike XXL
    It retains the original's sunny, democratic vibe and refreshing lack of meanness, as well as Soderbergh's interest (if not his precision) in keeping several of the ensemble members in frame, interacting, without a lot of routine close-ups.
  16. A Real Young Girl
    Breillat has long been fascinated with the idea that women are not allowed to go through puberty in private but instead seem to be on display for all to watch, a situation that has no parallel with boys. A Real Young Girl seems acutely aware of this paradox.
  17. Aquarius
    Braga isn't quite the whole show in Aquarius, but she's certainly a lot of it.
  18. Stranger Than Fiction
    When Ferrell and Hoffman do their thing together, a charming bit of whimsy becomes something more. It becomes really, really funny.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Spiderwick Chronicles
    A fast-moving adventure with more than dynamic glitz to recommend it.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    What it lacks in narrative ambition, it makes up for in dazzling choreography.
  21. Slumdog Millionaire
    After last year's black-hearted "No Country for Old Men," the Oscars may well be in the mood to embrace a fairy tale sampling every imaginable genre, with a note of triumph accompanying even the worst suffering, capped by the snazziest ending money can buy.
  22. Avengers: Endgame
    It’s the time travel conceit that keeps “Endgame” hopping, and the trial-and-error sequences recall some of the best parts of the first “Iron Man” 11 years back.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Human Traffic
    You may not want to join in their activities but you're happy to have tagged along.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Brittany Runs A Marathon
    The movie is very hard on its protagonist, and not all the obstacles, humiliations and setbacks escape the realm of cheap pathos. Bell and company keep it honest, though.
  25. A Dog of Flanders
    It was the adult in me that wept when the movie ended. Take the kid and have a good time.
  26. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    All the performances are terrific, even when some of the scenes sputter or reiterate the grievances.
  27. State of Play
    State of Play isn't a kinetic fireball like the second or third "Bourne" installment; like its protagonist, it's defiantly old school, "Three Days of the Condor" bleeding into "All the President's Men."
  28. Bottle Rocket
    It's a cool breeze of a comedy, with a slant on things that's dark but compassionate. Watching Bottle Rocket doesn't just make you laugh. It makes you smile between the laughs, think beneath the smiles.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cowboys & Angels
    Here we witness a healthy friendship between a gay and straight male that doesn't call for stilted changes in personality or sexual orientation.
  30. Uncle Drew
    It’s fun to hang out with these people for a while.
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