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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 Safety of Objects
    Presented with such confidence, such care, that we love all of the characters, even if we don't like them.
  2. Batman Begins
    Nolan is a fascinating, offbeat choice for a huge movie franchise such as this. Just as Bale turns Batman into a near-tragic obsessive -- a Scarlet Pimpernel with the soul of a Hamlet and Monte Cristo -- Nolan turns Batman Begins into something much closer to Miller's "Dark Knight" interpretation.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fun & Fancy Free
    What makes this video really interesting and superb entertainment for viewers 5 and older is that it blends animation with live action and carries two separate, full animated features with separate human narrators. [07 Aug 1997, p.9B]
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  4. The Last Boy Scout
    The Last Boy Scout will win no year-end awards, but at least it delivers the goods-which is more that can be said for most of this year's holiday releases.
  5. The Ninth Gate
    Elegant, scary fun.
  6. Ping Pong
    There's nothing particularly original or striking about Ping Pong except its style. It's a breezy, likable story, and the director here, Fumihiko Sori, obviously enjoys his work.
  7. Ironweed
    Ironweed is more than a chance to watch two multimillion-dollar actors play bums. Each character has a particular story; each is given a dignity that seems honest in the context of a worldwide Depression in the late '30s, and at no time are we certain what the future holds in store for either character. [12 Feb 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Divorce Iranian Style
    A highly provocative documentary.
  9. Babygirl
    Kidman rises to the occasion, and while one-note mediocrities like “The Substance” offer gallons of fake blood where the provocations should be, Reijn’s film — seen the second time, at least – only needs its nerve and its interest in what Kidman can do, which is more than I even realized.
  10. I Love You, Man
    What works best is whatever's completely incidental to the story, such as the totes-magotes/slippy mcgippy jive talk.
  11. Captain America: Civil War
    Nothing in “Civil War” takes your breath away. All the exteriors are shrouded in the same overcast, indistinct light. Little in story terms is what you’d call daisy fresh. But almost everything in it works on its own prescribed terms, and the quiet moments register.
  12. Letters to Juliet
    She delivers a solid and easy star performance. Some young performers lack a relatable quality; Seyfried has it, even with those old-school, big-screen peepers.
  13. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
    Ynpretentious and efficient, Curtis Hanson`s suspense drama The Hand That Rocks the Cradle suggests, after the monstrous ego trips of this past holiday season, that some sense of professionalism continues to reside in Hollywood.
  14. A Complete Unknown
    The actors, by and large, are first-rate. And the songs don’t hurt.
  15. American Gangster
    It’s a big, juicy 1970s period piece, one foot in real life, the other in the movies, the preferred stance of many Hollywood crime sagas.
  16. Rain Man
    Though it's well directed, written and performed, Rain Main still slips irreversibly into the so-what category. [16 Dec 1988]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. The Rundown
    Has what we usually want to see in movies like this: bravura action, tongue-in-cheek humor, but most of all attitude.
  18. The Invisible Woman
    Even if you don't entirely buy this version of events, director Ralph Fiennes has given us a speculation that works as drama. It's an elegant bit of goods.
  19. Sunshine Cleaning
    The director, New Zealander Christine Jeffs ("Sylvia"), loosens the plotting as best she can, letting the interactions breathe. Her work, and the film, is strictly about the performers.
  20. Long Shot
    It's "Veep," but less absurdly acid-tongued, and a lot more swoony. Still, the incisive cultural and political commentary cuts deep, and Theron and Rogen turn out to be a winning pair.
  21. Just Looking
    A teen comedy wise beyond its years.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Magic
    There's a certain quirky charm to the young Hopkins in his creep-out role as Corky, a shy, failed stand-up magician. [25 Apr 2006, p.3]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blind Mountain
    Li’s story is lean and economical, but deeply harrowing, as Xuemei--sympathetically played by debuting performer Huang Lu, the only classically trained actor in a cast of non-professionals--clings to her courage and tries again and again to escape.
  24. The Incredible Hulk
    Until the last 20 minutes, which stumble around in an attempt to set up a sequel, The Incredible Hulk keeps slamming everything forward, satisfyingly.
  25. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    The movie overall is engaging, though it's more cavalier regarding story and relentless in its action than its predecessor.
  26. Frost/Nixon
    Frost/Nixon is wholly absorbing.
  27. Mommy
    See it; see those three performers go to town.
  28. Miami Blues
    This movie doesn`t have any greater meaning than offering a lot of amusing, troubling, quirky behavior. But that`s reason enough to see it.
  29. Hail Satan?
    The musical score, and some of director Lane’s editing strategies, have a way of playing into the more comic aspects. Yet it’s not a mean-spirited affair. In fact, it’s a sly primer in homegrown grassroots activism.
  30. Unknown
    Sleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, Unknown is the opposite of "Memento."
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