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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. Prick Up Your Ears
    It's a good film, sturdily and somberly made, but it never catches fire.
  2. Exotica
    Exotica may be a gloomy journey up river, but it's a trip worth taking. See it with a friend. One who has something to say. [03 Mar 1995, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. The Thomas Crown Affair
    Too expensive for its own good, too chic for comfort.
  4. City of Gold
    It's a tasty primer on the man, the eater, the critic and the city.
  5. M3GAN
    A pleasantly nutty thriller about a crafty, high-end toy, M3GAN exploits a child’s grief for the greater good of the killer-doll genre. That may be enough for 100 minutes of your early January.
  6. Belushi
    Cutler’s documentary skip-walks a fine line between a great, unstable talent’s rise and fall, and between the un-tender trap of addiction and the joyous energy of a Chicago-bred giant.
  7. God Grew Tired of Us
    A year into their new lives, all three men experience profound isolation. How, they wonder, can Americans live such anti-social lives, so unconcerned with the idea of societal interdependence? This is the chief unexamined question raised by a worthy picture. What is there holds you all the same.
  8. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Delivers that rare combination of winning traits. It's a low-key comedy with a risque hook -- a seemingly straight woman dabbles in lesbianism -- yet it maintains an old-fashioned faith in literate dialogue, believable behavior and themes that reach beyond the plot points.
  9. Aimee & Jaguar
    When Aimee and Jaguar gets on one of its frequent rolls, it can evoke memories of Bertolucci or even De Sica.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Seabiscuit
    A grand ride. Sleek, beautiful and packed with emotion, not too flashy but full of heart, this is a movie worthy of its unlikely yet glorious subject: Depression-era America's best-loved racehorse and the two races that made him a legend.
  11. A Secret
    The acting is exceptional. If parts of A Secret veer toward soap opera, the ensemble work reduces the suds to a minimum.
  12. Mickey 17
    Even a first-rate director can get a little lost in the tone management and narrative streamlining process.
  13. Blow the Man Down
    It’s an efficient, well-acted thriller from the writing-directing team — relative newcomers to features — of Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole.
  14. Princess Cyd
    The performances by Pinnick and Spence are clean, vivid and honestly felt, with a lot of the best work emerging nonverbally in the spaces between characters closing a gap.
  15. Let Them All Talk
    The movie at hand is small, I suppose, and it may not be enough for some audiences. It’s enough for me.
  16. 7 Boxes
    You wait for months, sometimes, for a movie to show you something new. "7 Boxes" does exactly that, and while it's no more than a briskly managed bit of escapism, it's a really good example of same.
  17. Nine Days
    The movie proceeds in quiet, reflective tones, subtly energized by a fully realized visual environment and a clever variety of editing rhythms. Nine Days transcends the potential limitation and occasional strain of its premise.
  18. Superman Returns
    Superman Returns has everything going for it except surprise.
  19. Men in Black
    A smart, funny and hip adventure film in a summer of car wrecks and explosions. [4 July 1997]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Infinity Pool
    Cronenberg knows what he’s doing, and this is his most assured act of science-fiction effrontery to date.
  21. Dances with Wolves
    A three-hour delight… The movie generates much of its power by being so life-affirming at a time when people feel nervous about the future. [9 Nov 1990, Friday, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Czech Dream
    A small but droll big-box comedy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Blindsight
    Their story is deeply involving, all the more so because it isn’t simple or straightforward.
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