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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. Dear Diary
    Moretti weaves us in and out of high seriousness, crazy satire or sarcasm, political commentary, melancholy reverie and goofball japes. And though Moretti lacks the cartoonish physical presence of a Benigni or a Nichetti (or a Woody Allen) his unextraordinary demeanor-tall, bespectacled, lightly athletic, trim-bearded-fools you again. [25 Nov 1994, p.L]
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  2. Honeydripper
    Typical of a pretty good Sayles movie. There are few, if any, heroes and villains.
  3. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    Democracy might not really come from a bottle of shampoo, but "Beauty Academy" teaches us that, sometimes, mascara really matters.
  4. Memories of Tomorrow
    By the time Watanabe encounters a holy senile fool in the forest, the film has foregone contemporary urban “King Lear” territory for something a lot closer to the Lifetime Channel.
  5. Night on Earth
    In Night on Earth, Jarmusch is painting with colors he has never used before. The transformation is thrilling.
  6. Just Mercy
    What’s missing, I think, is a sense of human complication within an inhuman judicial sphere. While Foxx works wonders, especially in his scenes with Jordan, Just Mercy rarely gets under the skin or behind the eyes of McMillian.
  7. The Place Beyond the Pines
    It is a better, more fully felt and moving picture than "Blue Valentine."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Notting Hill
    It's funny, sympathetic, mostly smart, and it boasts a likable cast of characters led by two performers who have star power and know how to use it.
  9. Lust for Life
    The key to this 1956 bio-pic is the sumptuous cinematography and art direction, which is to be expected from the man who gave us "An American in Paris" and "Gigi." [23 Nov 2001, p.C11]
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  10. The Rescuers Down Under
    It's a far better piece of animation than the dismal Oliver and Company of 1988 and last year's smartly conceived but indifferently executed Little Mermaid. Butoy and Gabriel obviously love their medium, the first Disney directors to do so in years.
  11. Lethal Weapon
    These extremely attractive characters deserve a better finish. [8 May 1987, p.7-D]
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  12. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's fun, but not obvious fun.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Some Kind of Hero
    There's also nothing here that has much to do with what makes Prior such a powerful artist. [2 Apr 1982, p.3-6]
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  14. Beatriz at Dinner
    By Lithgow's standards this is pretty low-keyed acting, but he may have played one too many blowhards in his recent career. His performance works, but it lacks surprise and, as written, he's a bit much.
  15. The Shining
    Disappointing... Jack Nicholson parodies himself while Kubrick fails to provide any thrills. [11 July 1980, p.8]
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  16. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    All the "Star Wars" movies will continue to entertain us for many years to come. They were grand fun, and this last one's a corker.
  17. Paris
    The actors, remarkable and seasoned, take care of their end of things, stylishly and (when and where it can be arranged) truthfully.
  18. Superman
    It’s nicely packed and quite funny, when it isn’t giving into Gunn’s trademark air of merry depravity.
  19. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    It is a film, often breathtaking without settling for being pretty, filled with nervous silence.
  20. Fracture
    Effective dialogue doesn't necessarily mean witty dialogue, but wit certainly helps, and you tend not to get much of it in a low-key legal thriller. Fracture is an exception.
  21. Departures
    The acting is quite deft, if extremely broad, but screenwriter Kundo Koyama seesaws uncertainly between jokes and grief.
  22. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    It's great fun, propelled by a terrific musical score by Roque Banos that combines the hammering doom of Bernard Herrmann, the antic jollity of Nino Rota and the urgent sprints of Lalo "Mission: Impossible" Schifrin--often in the same crazy scene.
  23. The Valet
    Veber's early stage training serves him well both as an adapter (he wrote the "La Cage aux Folles" screenplay) and as a maker of originals though, truth be told, The Valet isn't especially original.
  24. Reykjavík
    Fun to watch it may be, but it's shallow fun. Like the drugs and booze the characters keep using -- and even the sex -- it's a passing pleasure.
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  25. The Italian Job
    It's an entertaining picture, classy and well executed, but as much as any film I've seen recently, this lush new version of the 1969 Michael Caine thriller tends to prove that, where thrillers are concerned, "more" is often less.
  26. Come Undone
    Turns increasingly interior and emotionally complex. It refuses to connect, putting the pressure entirely on its viewers to reach their own conclusions.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    The result: a swirling, kaleidoscopic take on a familiar concept, and a raucous, you-are-there atmosphere.
  28. Protagonist
    All four stories are worthwhile, though together they’re an awful lot for one modest doc to cover. Yu’s integration of cinematic and theatrical elements is uneven, and a bit stiff.
  29. Jurassic Park
    Given the complexity of attitudes and the ambiguous take on the family represented in such Spielberg films as “E.T.'' and “Poltergeist,'' the bland affirmations of Jurassic Park seem platitudinous and insincere. He's forcing it here, and it shows. [11 June 1993, Friday, p.A]
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  30. Neighbors
    One part smart, one part stupid and three parts jokes about body parts, the extremely raunchy Neighbors is a strange success story.
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