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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. Joy Ride
    There's good pulp and bad pulp, and for most of its duration, Joy Ride is quality stuff.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stuart Little 2
    A warm, witty, consistently funny family movie with a sweet message about loving yourself, be you a mouse or whatever.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sharkwater
    Probably ranks as one of the most frightening shark movies ever---but sharks are the victims.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Golden Compass
    It’s pure introductory adventure, meant to immerse readers in Pullman’s richly complicated fantasy universe.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Brief History of Time
    Slickly executed and dramatically engaging.
  6. Lost and Delirious
    Boldly goes where Hollywood rarely treads: into the passionate, intense and complex world of girls at the point in their lives when self-discovery is tempered by enormous vulnerability.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. The End of the Affair
    Few recent movie romances have a more chilling and peculiar feel -- and a more sobering aftertaste -- than Neil Jordan's heart-rendingly cold adaptation of Affair.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. All the Little Animals
    Beautifully produced: a moving film with a fascinating story and exemplary acting.
  9. In the Summers
    A lot happens, some of it life-changing, some of it heartrending, parts of it (in story terms) a bit rushed or on-the-nose. The actors, unerringly well-cast, more or less take care of those last parts.
  10. Ralph Breaks the Internet
    A weirder and more interesting movie than “Wreck-It Ralph,” Ralph Breaks the Internet tells a lie right in its title because isn’t that thing broken already?
  11. Funny Pages
    The movie’s a little thin; it’s also on the glib side regarding what, in the case of Wallace’s condition, qualifies as something deeper than a crummy anti-social attitude. But Kline, shooting on film in collaboration with the excellent cinematographer Sean Price Williams, explores a wide range of visual expressivity in Funny Pages.
  12. Our Song
    Has an assured air, rich with scenes of affection, anger and reconciliation, along with moments of unfeigned humor.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Mystery Men
    They're a ragtag assembly for sure, and the results aren't pretty. But on a simple mission of entertainment, they get the job done.
  14. Mank
    It’s best taken, I think, as a romantic gesture to a writer who loved movies. Well, two, really: Herman J. Mankiewicz, and Jack Fincher.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    It's better than some James Bond movies--no matter what your age.
  16. Rocky Balboa
    The movie itself, defying all odds, comes close to a knockout.
  17. Manic
    This clear-eyed, low-budget drama is populated by troubled teens whose stories aren’t packaged in neat little bows. Their histories are sad, their feelings raw, their futures uncertain.
  18. Death Race
    Nothing in director Paul W.S. Anderson's schlock drawer--prepares you for the peppy, good-time nastiness that is Death Race.
  19. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
    Miniatures in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, created by Ray Harryhausen, may appear at first glance to be worlds away from the CGI creatures in The Phantom Menace and Jurassic Park. But it was Harryhausen's work that taught such filmmakers as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg to dream of creating ever-more-perfect fantasy worlds. [22 Feb 2008, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. The Grudge
    A master of atmosphere, Japanese director Takashi Shimizu leads his audience along on a celluloid leash to his pitch-black attic of horror, inviting each hair on the back of your neck to stand up.
  21. Life of Pi
    Life of Pi, Yann Martel's beautiful little book about a young man and the sea and a tiger, has transformed into a big, imposing and often lovely 3-D experience.
  22. Intermission
    If Intermission isn't profound, it's got boisterous humor and energy, with U2's rollicking "Out of Control" leading the charge. Given the grimness of many Irish tales, Intermission represents less of a pause than a burst into a fresh direction.
  23. My Cousin Vinny
    A good-hearted comedy of clashing cultures. The film finds great fun in coaxing out and mocking a range of regional differences, from mutually impenetrable accents to radical variants in dress codes, but miraculously never descends to broad, dismissive caricatures.
  24. Saw
    Wan's tense, grisly cinematic morsel won't go down easy. But once it hits bottom, Saw is oddly satisfying, though the gag reflex never entirely goes away.
  25. Burn, Witch, Burn
    A smart shocker, scripted by Twilight Zone regulars Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont.
  26. The Notorious Bettie Page
    It's a joy to see so many cheerful and contented characters on screen, especially on a screen that looks this good.
  27. Mongolian Ping Pong
    A tender, visually stunning comedy-drama.
  28. Guilty by Suspicion
    For De Niro, David Merrill represents a rare opportunity to play a leading man without tics or gimmicks, and it is a pleasure to set what a fine, transparent performer he can be after the high technique of Awakenings and GoodFellas.
  29. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Fully up to, as well as virtually indistinguishable from, its predecessors… The guarantee of Indiana Jones is that the pace never varies and the tone never changes; when you've had enough, you can feel free to leave. [24 May 1989, Tempo, p.1]
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  30. 2012
    For visual noise by the ton, Emmerich is my kind of hack, the pluperfect blend of leaden self-seriousness and accidental-on-purpose self-satirist.
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