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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 Company
    A funny valentine by an old master, woos us into the dance.
  2. Ray
    A fit tribute to an entertainer who, no matter what hate or hardship threw in his way or how many mistakes he made, we can't stop loving.
  3. Layer Cake
    Don't let the fast-and-loose vibe fool you: Right up to its operatic finale, this is one tight one last job.
  4. Mask
    It's an old lesson, but one well told with fresh faces in Mask.
  5. The Incredible Shrinking Man
    Classic low-budget '50s sci-fi thriller, brilliantly scripted by Richard Matheson from his novel. [01 Sep 2006, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Waterloo Bridge
    This one features the heartbreaking young Vivien Leigh with her flower-like face, flashing eyes and seductive fragility; Robert Taylor is a little stiff as the hero. (isn't he always?), but it's a nice lush MGM production. [31 Oct 1999, p.34]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Like Thompson's work itself, it sometimes feels like a smoke screen, a colorful but distracting, distracted set of pretenses hiding as much as they reveal.
  8. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    Black's retro-noir reminds us why we love movies: because they can surprise us, even when we're ankle deep in bullet casings, bodies and enough twists to tie us in knots.
  9. Crossing Delancey
    In "Crossing Delancey," veteran independent filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver returns to the Jewish milieu of her early hit "Hester Street." This time, however, she turns ethnic drama into romantic comedy. [16 Sep 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Three Monkeys
    Certain things in Three Monkeys can only be described as brilliant.
  11. Bowfinger
    One of the best and funniest things that Martin, as writer and actor, has ever done.
  12. One Of Them Days
    Palmer delivers an on-the-fly masterclass in overlapping comic skills, sometimes heightened (I love her eyeblink-quick, frozen-statue reaction to the good-looking, possibly homicidal hunk named Maniac, played by Patrick Cage), sometimes subtle and heartfelt.
  13. The New World
    Malick's nature documentarian impulse has never been more flagrant than in The New World, yet it has never made more organic sense. The film, which is superb on every technical and design level, has both greatness and fuzzy-headedness in it.
  14. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Yes, Steve Carell can carry a movie. Yes, Judd Apatow can direct a movie. Yes, we'll all relate to a middle-aged virgin. And yes, when an aesthetician yells to her assistant "we're gonna need more wax," you best run.
  15. Bull Durham
    Successfully avoids the grandiose mythmaking that has been the bane of the baseball movie from ''Pride of the Yankees'' to ''The Natural.'' Rather than a vapid national epic, it is a warm, droll, deftly cracked romantic comedy. [15 June 1988]
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. The Cats of Mirikitani
    The Cats of Mirikitani seems all too short; it has enough meat to be turned into an excellent dramatic film.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Puffy Chair
    An enjoyable road movie that feels both comfortable and completely fresh.
  18. The Original Kings of Comedy
    One funny movie - for at least half the time.
  19. Innocence
    A beautiful, almost defiant film on an unusual subject: love among the elderly.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Shattered Glass
    Quite entertaining.
  21. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
    Sam Dunn's unabashed wet kiss to his favorite genre of music, heavy metal, a.k.a. devil's music.
  22. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    This is a movie for all cultures and all people, for families and especially for those who have lost them.
  23. War of the Worlds
    Rivets and amazes, even if it falls just frustratingly short of the mind-expanding grandeur it could have had.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    Much of this strikingly human, rapidly paced and laudably well-rounded film is fascinating.
  25. Love & Basketball
    The biggest missteps come toward the end, when Prince-Bythewood's storybook instincts get the best of her and force a wrap-up that doesn't feel earned.
  26. Thirst
    Be warned: Thirst is one of those pictures that tacks on another chapter just when you think it’s wrapping up.
  27. Notes on a Scandal
    Leave it to the first-class actors dining out on those roles to make the cat and the mouse interesting and unpredictable.
  28. Clueless
    Clueless is no "Fast Times" when it comes to character development or the merging of comedy and drama, and it might have worked better if it had been more story-oriented and plot-centered. But thanks to Heckerling's spirited direction and cutting-edge script, it is, "like . . . majorly and furiously golden." [19 July 1995]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. The City of Lost Children
    This remarkable movie is really one-of-a-kind. [15 Dec 1995]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    That's Entertainment!
    Hollywood legends introduce a collection of moments from the finest MGM musicals, ranging from the first all-sound musical -- Broadway Melody of 1930 -- to the climactic ballet from An American in Paris. [02 Dec 2011, p.3]
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