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For 7,599 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 1.5 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: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. Splendor in the Grass
    Superb, vibrantly emotional drama. [27 Apr 2001, p.C1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Meet Me in St. Louis
    Hollywood's great holiday musical is this sparkling adaptation of writer Sally Benson's memoir: a movie that takes us on a Currier and Ives 1903 holiday tour of St. Louis with the postcard-perfect Smith family. [08 Jan 2004, p.N1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. The Usual Suspects
    A near-classic blend of mystery, personality, humor and terror, laced with one stunning shock after another. [18 August 1995, Friday, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Mystic River
    Mystic River is classic Eastwood, classic noir. If there is still some doubt about whether this one-time macho star is actually a world-class moviemaker, Mystic River should end the argument for good. One of the best American movies of the year, crisply well-crafted and beautifully acted.
  5. Don't Look Now
    More a triumph of tone and texture than of storytelling....But what makes Don't Look Now one of the creepiest movies of all time is the artful way director Roeg leads us around blind corners and down dark alleys (both literally and figuratively), straddling the line between reality and mysticism. [4 May 2001, p.4]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. One Child Nation
    In a very full and riveting 85 minutes, One Child Nation assembles a huge story together from many small, crucial pieces.
  7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    Altman's dreamy, snowy northwestern about wily operator McCabe (Warren Beatty), sexy Madame Miller (Julie Christie) and a bittersweet tale of how the West was unzipped. [04 May 2007, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Bloody Sunday
    By re-imagining a pivotal, terrible 24 hours, Greengrass has made a must-see film that is timely - and timeless.
  9. From Up on Poppy Hill
    Your kids may will fall in love with it, if you help them find it.
  10. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    The film is a gem — a supple, unpredictably structured and deeply personal portrait of its primary subject, the photographer, visual artist and activist Nan Goldin.
  11. Capturing the Friedmans
    The more you learn, the more questions you have about life in that Great Neck house. Leo Tolstoy wrote that "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion," but not even he could have invented the Friedmans.
  12. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
    In the end, both Dahl’s stories and Anderson’s movies require a few common but difficult skill sets of the actors. Wit. Technical precision. Verbal facility. Adroit timing. And some fun, even if it’s tightly prescribed and carefully confined to a certain place in a fastidiously arranged, ever-shifting picture frame.
  13. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    A masterpiece of wry violence and stylized mayhem, The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi turns loose one of Japan's most brilliant film auteurs, Takeshi Kitano, on one of its most enduring pop legends.
  14. Così ridevano
    This is a film precisely constructed, brilliantly imagined.
  15. Away from Her
    One of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have recently given us.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This Is Spinal Tap
    Deserves an encore anyway for its invaluable contributions to the vocabulary of rock'n' roll and pop culture.
  17. Downfall
    Downfall, whatever its shortcomings, bears strong witness to great evil. That is its triumph as a film.
  18. No Man's Land
    In the remarkable, ferociously intelligent new film No Man's Land, Bosnian writer-director Danis Tanovic gives us a movie portrait of the Bosnian War, a conflict that has devastated his country, friends and neighbors -- and found in it both shocking humor and searing, relentless tragedy.
  19. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    The result is a mixture of unified atmosphere and lived-in character study, and while Vasiliu’s role is not as indelible as that of her co-stars, Marinca’s Otilia and Ivanov’s steely abortionist are just about perfect.
  20. Red Rock West
    The excellence of Red Rock West goes beyond the intricate plotting by brothers John and Rick Dahl. The casting couldn't be better.
  21. The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    The style is brash, and it works. Tucker and Epperlein illustrate Yunis' account of his eight-month imprisonment, much of that time spent at the notorious Abu Ghraib compound, with literal illustrations--pages seemingly torn out of a Frank Miller graphic novel.
  22. Goya in Bordeaux
    Bravo!
  23. Sanjuro
    The thrilling sequel-return of Mifune's hip samurai from Yojimbo. [01 Nov 2002, p.C9]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Masculine Feminine
    One of the quintessential '60s foreign art films, a bizarre melange of pop music, revolution, sex, movie allusions and poetry. It's a masterpiece of sorts by one of the most important European filmmakers of that era. But it's also a movie that can drive you crazy.
  25. Eternity and a Day
    Somber, meditative and visually magnificent, this film, about a famous Greek author ruminating on his past, is a piece of cinematic poetry: calm, beautiful and chilling as the eternal sea against which much of it is set. [22 Oct 1998, p.2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Heart of a Dog
    It sounds sentimental, icky, even, but Heart of a Dog sparkles with its creator's wisdom and droll philosophical insight.
  27. A Serious Man
    A tart, brilliantly acted fable of life’s little cosmic difficulties, a Coen brothers comedy with a darker philosophical outlook than “No Country for Old Men” but with a script rich in verbal wit.
  28. The Grapes of Wrath
    One of the great American social films: strong, ribald, deeply compassionate. [30 Sep 2005, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Last Things
    If all this sounds difficult to track, well, sort of. But not really. It’s a flow, not a plod, and Stratman isn’t after conventional linear storytelling.
  30. Ray
    A fit tribute to an entertainer who, no matter what hate or hardship threw in his way or how many mistakes he made, we can't stop loving.
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