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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. Selah and The Spades
    It's arresting to behold, but it almost seems to run out of steam at a certain point. But for any of its story flaws, Selah and the Spades is so tonally and aesthetically indelible, it announces the arrival of an exciting new cinematic voice in Poe, and cements Lovie Simone as a bona fide movie star.
  2. Fair Game
    Liman's sensibility isn't sophisticated enough to tease out the nuances of what must be a pretty interesting marriage; the movie is more about texture and surfaces and surface tensions.
  3. The Drop
    As a performance vehicle The Drop does the job. As a story, and an uncertainly padded script, the movie lurches and lets us get out ahead of its developments.
  4. Chicago 10
    Morgen’s best achievement is the news footage, more detailed looks at events outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel and in Chicago parks than you typically see on TV rehashes.
  5. Goyangileul butaghae
    The film has many strengths, but one of its major assets is its solid sight line. Though we might expect it to go sentimental - with its cute cat, torn families and sympathetic, pretty protagonists - it doesn't.
  6. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    There's no question that Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is a virtuoso piece of filmmaking. What's questionable is whether it's more than that.
  7. The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    With braces on her teeth and preteen gawkiness, Eliza's a nerdy girl on the surface, but her backbone and chutzpah manage to save human and animal family alike. Move over Bond; this girl deserves a sequel.
  8. Divided We Fall
    Has the literary richness, depth of character and tone that such a morally difficult, powerful narrative requires.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    Exceptional black dramatic comedy.
  10. Salvador
    Wexler told his story in credible human terms. Writer-director Stone felt the need to jazz up his action with wacked-out characters who belong in a ''Saturday Night Live'' sketch.
  11. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    At its best, Wright's film is raucous, impudent entertainment.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fear(s) of the Dark
    Works best when it works primal--which is not the same thing as working dumb.
  13. A League of Their Own
    Penny Marshall, the sitcom actress ("Laverne and Shirley") turned filmmaker ("Big," "Awakenings"), manages to make even such elementary material seem labored and phony. The film, which was shot in and around Chicago last summer, is a major disappointment.
  14. Fahrenheit 11/9
    An emotional and intellectual roller coaster. Moore swings for the fences, as he usually does. But the film, done in Moore's traditionalist maximalist style, is overblown and overstuffed with editorial indulgences. It's clear that stylistically and structurally, less should be more for Moore.
  15. Happiest Season
    Happiest Season” isn’t full-on farce; it’s lower-key, and runs into trouble only when the script contends with confessional monologues right up against hiding-in-a-literal-closet routines or routine slapstick, as it does in the climax. But you know? It works.
  16. Performance
    An amazing film, still a shocker after all these years. [07 Sep 2001, p.C1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. 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
  18. Cha Cha Real Smooth
    Raiff most likely wanted to make a movie about a well-intentioned guy in his early 20s who gradually finds his way to a better life. What undermines his efforts is a creeping smugness and self-regard, positioning every side character as an intern in the Andrew Improvement Program.
  19. Crazy Love
    Pugach's selfishness, his inability to detach love from gratification, is the key to this crazy story.
  20. Starter for 10
    Starter for 10 is cute and smart, just like its star triangle, and it's also well-written, acted and directed.
  21. The Bridges of Madison County
    Streep is an actress known for her uncanny ability with accents, but her quiet performance in "Bridges" proves that she would have made a world-class silent-film star, too.
  22. Kurt Cobain About a Son
    Near the end, we hear Cobain reveal his disdain for adults who “can’t even pretend, or at least have enough courtesy for their children, to talk to one another civilly.” A painful and unexpected moment.
  23. Intimacy
    Vibrating with humanity, it's a potent portrait of love, ranging from the purely carnal to the impurely sublime.
  24. The Cuckoo
    It's an unabashed pacifist movie that really works, emotionally and dramatically.
  25. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Rogowski's transition from youth-culture poster boy to murderer demands deeper analysis.
  26. Changing Lanes
    A thrilling ride but also a thoughtful one, it's a movie that does manage to do more good than bad by the end of the day.
  27. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Most movingly, Monsieur Ibrahim takes a provocative subject -- friendship and love between a Jew and a Muslim -- and makes it seem natural and wondrous.
  28. Adorenarin doraibu
    It has terrific moments, but whenever it starts to cruise along nicely, it hits a comedic pothole that forces it to sputter on down the road.
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  29. Ong Bak
    Infusion of comedy elements keeps the story light, without dragging it into the cartoonish.
  30. The Harder They Fall
    You could also say The Harder They Fall consists on a diet of flourishes.
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