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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. The Idea of You
    Anne Hathaway basically saves it from itself.
  2. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
    Sammy and Rosie is a writer's film, with all the pluses and minuses that go with that status. The language is marvelously clear and the structure exquisitely wrought; on the other hand, the film lacks the sense of discovery and spontaneity a more creative director might have brought to it.
  3. My Bodyguard
    An engaging yarn about a wealthy kid who learns to fight his way out of trouble in a rough Chicago public school. He also learns not to believe in labels placed on people. [19 Dec 1980, p.10]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. 2 Days in Paris
    By accident or design the film is seriously unbalanced.
  5. Man Bites Dog
    It's not closed text, but a work of art that needles and disturbs. [14 May 1993, p.H2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Last Days
    The poetry of Last Days has a stoned grandeur.
  7. Better Luck Tomorrow
    The film lacks a single emotionally authentic moment.
  8. Young Adam
    It's a movie drama with a surface so bleak and an interior so hot with eroticism that it twists your guts to watch it.
  9. Finding Neverland
    It's an intellectual family film for literate parents and children, immensely pleasing if not perfect, perhaps a smidgen too brightly evasive and determinedly charming.
  10. The Business of Strangers
    This is a movie that really has little to offer but performances and ideas. For a while, that's enough.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Life and Debt
    A searing documentary with an agenda.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. A Decade Under the Influence
    As wide and deep as the directors fish for anecdotes, it's surprising that there isn't more focus, more context.
  13. Haywire
    In terms of its title, Haywire doesn't quite go there; it's more "Haywire-ish." But it's eccentric, and the on-screen violence is sharp and exciting - brutal without being either subhumanly sadistic or superhumanly ridiculous.
  14. XXY
    The acting is uniformly strong, the visual approach self-effacingly honest.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Silent Running
    Special-effects wiz Douglas Trumbull made his directorial debut on this flawed movie. Its ecological sensibilities, however noble, emerge as severely dated just 16 years later. Nevertheless, this is nifty robovideo. [21 Apr 1988, p.95]
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Annette
    Yes, the Frenchman Carax’s first film in English isn’t life-affirming so much as it is art-affirming. But it’s a weirdly compelling experience in blunt, arguably misogynist, harshly beautiful cinema.
  17. Chappaquiddick
    Chappaquiddick misses that target. But it’s a fairly intriguing mixture of strengths and weaknesses, a case of a sharp cast and a careful director toning up a script best described as “a good try.”
  18. Good Morning, Vietnam
    There's still enough hardcore Williams-when he's sitting by himself in his studio-to make Good Morning, Vietnam worthwhile, but the alarm bells are sounding. Heres another comic who wants to play Hamlet.
  19. Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    The cast manages some sweet moments, and Plowright lends a touch of grace and wit to each new indignity or kindness. Yet the whole thing feels programmed; the movie's sense of humor lacks understatement.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    If your kid has SpongeBob SquarePants underwear, it's a good bet she or he will relish The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
  21. An Affair of Love
    Halfway through, it becomes clear that the filmmakers don't know how to end the film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Open Range
    A blend of the classical and the trite, the beautiful and tawdry, the genuinely moving and the cornball. Oddly, producer-director-star Costner often can't seem to tell the difference.
  23. The Flower of Evil
    Stylish, ingenious and gleaming with charm, wit and malice, it's another expert blend of domestic drama and crime thriller, a vivisection of the bourgeoisie.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ninth Day
    Though The Ninth Day longs for a grander scope, it never lifts much beyond Kremer's personal dilemma.
  25. The King of Staten Island
    Apatow's greatest strength as a filmmaker is an eye for charismatic performers who are just fun to be around, and The King of Staten Island is a testament to that. In Davidson, Apatow has a uniquely compelling young comedian.
  26. Horror of Dracula
    A colorful version of Bram Stoker's deathless tale of the bloodsucking count has Christopher Lee as a suave Dracula and Peter Cushing as his nemesis Von Helsing. [02 Oct 1998, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. As Tears Go By (1988)
    A very flashy Hong Kong variation on Mean Streets. [19 Dec 1996, p.7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. The Ides of March
    I would see The Ides of March again just for the way Jeffrey Wright takes command of the screen in the secondary role of a senator who is either a cipher, a sphinx, a two-faced sphinx, a lying sack of D.C. dung or a steely man of principle.
  29. Guinevere
    A shy and depressed college graduate falls in love with a Bohemian artist, as in Woody Allen's "Manhattan."
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
    The movie is awash in great performances by actors known and otherwise.
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