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For 7,603 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: 5,107 out of 7603
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7603
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7603
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  1. Casino
    You can't praise highly enough the contributions of the ensemble--De Niro and Pesci especially--but it's Scorsese's triumph. [22 November 1995, Tempo, p.1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Re-Animator
    And yet if Re-Animator offers only a few laughs, that still puts it smiles ahead of George Romero`s awful ''Return of the Dead,'' the third in his zombie series, which suffered from tired blood. At least director Gordon`s ghoulies drool on naked women and decapitate each other with shovels. Hoe, hoe, hoe.
  3. Dust Bunny
    Fuller demonstrates a strong command over his visual domain, but the pat allegory he presents about the monsters with whom we have to learn to live feels a bit muddled.
  4. Meet the Parents
    These two actors have a kind of genius for dark comedy: Stiller for suffering through crises and De Niro for creating them.
  5. The Matrix
    The writing remains more intelligent than most thrillers, and the action is executed with such panache that even if you don't buy the reality of The Matrix, it's a helluva place to visit.
  6. Lucy and Desi
    The relationship at the film’s center remains a combustible mystery.
  7. The Impossible
    Everything that was false about the tsunami sequence in the recent Clint Eastwood film 'Hereafter' - the bland overview perspectives, the lack of human immediacy - is corrected, terrifyingly, by the first half-hour of director J.A. Bayona's nerve-shredding docudrama 'The Impossible.'
  8. Divorce Iranian Style
    A highly provocative documentary.
  9. After the Life
    The third film, After the Life, much like "On the Run," mixes a hard-edged, relentless and stripped-down crime tale with a compassionate overview.
  10. Super Size Me
    The movie is zippy, laugh-out-loud funny, persuasive and at times horrifying, as Spurlock undergoes his unpleasant changes with good humor and bad tummy aches.
  11. Big Animal
    An actor-turned-director, Stuhr appeared in many of Kieslowski's films and their partnership and friendship produced some stunning work. The Big Animal memorializes a complex man and his deceptively simple work, by a friend and colleague in a fitting tribute.
  12. I'm Not Scared
    A virtuoso piece of dark storytelling.
  13. Heading South
    The racial and sexual politics of Heading South may trouble some audiences; Cantet is definitely not a moralist in the usual sense.
  14. Exiled
    The more you like Leone's work the more you'll likely respond to To's latest. Which is odd, considering Exiled is a gangster picture by strict definition.
  15. Burn, Witch, Burn
    A smart shocker, scripted by Twilight Zone regulars Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont.
  16. Road to Zanzibar
    The second, and some say best, of the "Road" series. Paramount's patty-caking pals, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, invade Lightest Africa for some songs, dances and snappy patter. [02 Apr 2000, p.38C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Burmese Harp
    Ichikawa's great anti-war film, about a Japanese soldier (Shoji Yasui) in Burma masquerading as a monk and falling into grace. [21 Nov 2008, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
    One of the most original, appealing offbeat American films in recent years.
  19. Cold Mountain
    This Civil War epic romance is exquisitely shot, lovingly designed and populated with talented name actors. In terms of pedigree and sheer, lush filmmaking, the movie has class written all over it. And that's part of the problem.
  20. The Commitments
    It looks like director Parker, who can be quite ambitious (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise), is coasting this time, merely reworking his big hit, Fame.
  21. Flowers of Shanghai
    A ravishing portrait of Shanghai brothel life in the late 19th Century, shot entirely in one-take scenes in luxuriant red-and-gold interior sets. [02 Oct 1998, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Me and Orson Welles
    A real charmer, Me and Orson Welles is the work of a director who takes nostalgia, romantic possibility and the theater seriously, without being a pill about it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    For the Bible Tells Me So
    Doesn’t shy from heart-tugging opportunities, and there’s a five-minute cartoon embedded in the movie that should have been excised, but beyond those problems and some stylistic dead air, this is a compelling, thought-provoking portrait of a quiet challenge rising within America’s churches.
  24. Rocket Science
    Doesn't quite work but is worth seeing anyway.
  25. American Sniper
    The film is rarely dull; it's one life-and-death sequence after another, and the filmmaking's efficient, crisply delivered. But Eastwood honors his subject without really getting under his skin.
  26. Working Girl
    Griffith gives the fullest performance of her career; Weaver, the most likable, even though she's the villain of the piece. Michael Nichols directs his best film in years. [23 Dec 1988, Friday, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    Uneven but rollicking, The Pirates! has a personality to call its own.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Price of Sugar
    Explores an unheralded but emotionally affecting issue in a straight-forward and engaging manner.
  29. 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.
  30. Beyond the Mat
    Surprisingly lacking in revelatory moments.
    • Chicago Tribune
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