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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Millennium Actress
    Fabulous for many reasons. Most important, this movie is Chiyoko's story, not an anime adventure. It's animated, but it's human and will touch the soul of anyone who has loved deeply.
  2. Merry Christmas
    Though it's not the great film "Grand Illusion" is, and though it may strike some as a little schmaltzy, it still has some of that earlier film's deep feeling and empathy for soldiers trapped in the jaws of war and for the joys of Christmas--for believers and non-believers alike.
  3. Street Smart
    A superb entertainment, it also has something to say.
  4. Together Together
    It’s a lovely sort of chemistry that develops in fits and starts over the course of the film, with both Helms and Harrison giving carefully modulated performances that are full of delightfully specific verbal tics and terrific comedic timing.
  5. eXistenZ
    With his usual consummate visual skills and his flair for the nauseatingly audacious, David Cronenberg’s written (spottily) and directed (stunningly) a movie that often makes you feel as if you'd lost contact with reality: a twisted, nightmarish tale of futuristic reality games and a couple on the run. [23 April 1999, Friday, p.D]
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  6. Gunner Palace
    Tucker has done a bang-up job, distancing and hypnotizing us with his frenzied, fragmented, sexy images. But war isn't a video game.
  7. The Skin I Live In
    The film is an exercise in improbable contrasts. The more extreme the actions of the characters, the more contained and fastidious the director's technique.
  8. Curse of the Golden Flower
    It's a work by cinematic geniuses that reveals beauty and terror in a long-ago time with a virtuoso intensity. You won't soon forget its mad, lovely sights and sounds.
  9. Shall We Kiss?
    Ledoyen in particular humanizes the story-within-a-story strategy. Her character's sly verbal hesitations become part of a mutual seduction, more theoretical than practical, but enticing nonetheless.
  10. The Barefoot Contessa
    Mankiewicz's classic Hollywood backstage tale of a tragic sex goddess/superstar (Ava Gardner), her gloomy, intellectual director (Humphrey Bogart) and the retinue of glamorous and/or exploitive movie types around them. [05 Nov 2004, p.C6]
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  11. Black Widow
    Director Bob Rafelson, one of the leading lights of the 1970s ("Five Easy Pieces"), makes a terrific comeback in a stylish piece that is as beguiling and lush as its central character. [6 Feb 1987, p.AC]
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  12. Elephant
    The characters need more exploration, especially the killers. Yet this look at teen life and death chills you anyway.
  13. The Science of Sleep
    It only works about half the time, but it's an interesting half.
  14. Nenette and Boni
    Nenette and Boni, despite their plight, show us something small but vital about Marseilles, families, brothers, sisters, babies, pizza -- and even about the sensuous delights of kneading dough.
  15. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    If director Fabian’s touch is a little heavy and coy, the actors lighten it every preordained step of the way. A lot of folks will enjoy the wish-fulfillment. We need it: Not a lot in the real world right now is fully cooperating in that regard.
  16. The Syrian Bride
    Like the whole of this easygoing plea for a better future, it's sweet.
  17. Doubt
    While Streep has a tiny bit too much fun with some of her character's excesses, she's awfully good. So is Hoffman, who walks a fine line between obvious guilt and possible innocence.
  18. A Man Called Ove
    Sweet and flinty in roughly equal measure, the movie's a big hit in its native country.
  19. Dead Calm
    Though the film resorts to a hackneyed ending, what goes on before is modest but effective terror. [07 Apr 1989, p.A]
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  20. Rebuilding Paradise
    It’s frequently gripping and finally very moving. The director’s innate decency and forthright sense of craft does justice to a painful subject — one with unexpected connections to the 2020 pandemic moment.
  21. Tel Aviv on Fire
    A determinedly easygoing comedy about the Israeli-Palestinian divide, Tel Aviv on Fire gets by on the low-keyed assurance of its cast and its medium-grade amusements.
  22. Sidney
    Director Reginald Hudlin’s Sidney was made with the full and keenly interested cooperation of the Poitier family, following a template of access many documentaries favor or, in some cases, settle for. This is one of the good ones.
  23. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    On the whole, though, it is funny and compassionate, silly and sweet. [26 Aug 1994]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Nightmare Alley
    The film operates on a peculiar, somewhat languid rhythm, and there are times when the story’s needs take a back seat to the visual detail. But “Nightmare Alley” has nerve and relentless, fantastic style.
  25. The Hoax
    Isn't all it could have been. But the filmmakers catch the right glittery look and paranoid intensity, and they make gutsy speculations about the story beneath the story.
  26. Pauline and Paulette
    It's a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places, unexamined lives.
  27. Audition
    Creates an atmosphere of frenzy that is both powerful and unforgettable, providing neither solace nor comfort.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tosca
    You would be better off investing in the worthy EMI recording that serves as the soundtrack, or the home video of the 1992 Malfitano-Domingo production.
  29. Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
    Advertised as having a Southern-influenced point of view, the jokes are witty and universal enough for everyone.
  30. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    It's not a hasty, knocked-together promo job--though it is clearly pro-Kerry.
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