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For 7,613 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: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Ceddo
    A classic, mythic portrayal of African history, religion and politics by the great Senegalese novelist-filmmaker Sembene, centering on a princess' kidnapping and its aftermath. [18 Sep 1998, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Equinox Flower
    Another great domestic comedy-drama. [08 May 2009, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
    Star Wars is not a great movie in the sense that it describes the human condition. It simply is a fun picture that will appeal to those who enjoy Buck Rogers-style adventures. What places it a sizable cut about the routine is its spectacular visual effects, the best since Stanley Kubrick's "2001." [27 May 1977]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 21 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Car
    A possessed-car film that beat Christine by a few years but is a much inferior version. [02 Feb 1993, p.3C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Mikey and Nicky
    If May's script is brilliant, so is the vivid, raw acting -- which suggests heavy Cassavetes influence. [30 Jul 1999, p.O]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Rocky
    A great movie? Hardly. Stallone as the next Brando? You've got to be kidding. A nice little fantasy picture? Maybe. That's the hype and reality of Rocky, the flatout schmaltzy saga of a Philadelphia club boxer who, on New Year's Day of our Bicentennial Year, gets a chance to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. . . .
  7. The Last Tycoon
    A curiously cool, but very intelligent movie. [02 Jan 2000, p.19C]
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  8. Carrie
    A voluptuously shot horror movie, with Piper Laurie (as Carrie's fanatically religious mom) and some nasty teens played by Amy Irving, Nancy Allen and John Travolta.
  9. Solaris (1972)
    An amazing celluloid poem by a filmmaker whom Ingmar Bergman called "the greatest." He very nearly was. He was also, perhaps, too pure a creator and reckless a citizen to survive unscathed.
  10. The Tenant
    Terrifying and darkly funny. [13 Jun 2004, p.C4]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All the President's Men
    This edgy but highly polished movie established the modern myth of journalists-as-heroes: crusaders in the service of the Constitution. [14 Nov 2008, p.C7]
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  12. Barry Lyndon
    Kubrick's beautiful adaptation of the William Thackeray novel follows a young Irish gambler, rogue and romantic adventurer (Ryan O'Neal) though a painterly 18th Century English landscape of frozen elegance and upper-class hypocrisy.
  13. The Man Who Would Be King
    An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's tale of the follies of adventure--beautifully directed and shot (by Oswald Morris) and perfectly cast. [11 July 2003, p.C5]
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  14. Jaws
    What this movie is about, and where it succeeds best, is the primordial level of fear. The characters, for the most part, and the non-fish elements in the story, are comparatively weak and not believable. [20 June 1975]
  15. Nashville
    Altman's great kaleidoscopic ensemble comedy-drama about a frenzied few days in country music's capital, with an unlikely, quirky, explosive crowd of musicians, hangers-on and politicos all converging on a fateful concert crossroads.
  16. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    An incredibly silly film of great humor, brilliant design and epic insanity.
  17. The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge
    Few adventure movies have such a heightened atmosphere of beauty, excitement and fun. [25 Jan 2002, p.C1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Young Frankenstein
    The best of Brooks' movie parodies: a high-style sendup of Universal's James Whale-directed Boris Karloff "Frankenstein" movies. [26 Oct 2007, p.C3]
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. The Godfather: Part II
    This magnificent 1974 sequel, the centerpiece of Coppola and writer Mario Puzo's 20th Century gangster saga, is still one of the most ambitious and brilliantly executed American films, a landmark work from one of Hollywood's top cinema eras.
  20. A Woman Under the Influence
    That sort of depth is rare in most movies; it's the trademark, however, of John Cassavetes.
  21. Early Spring
    An unusual subject for Ozu, white-collar adultery, handled with his customary deep observation. [28 Jan 2005, p.C2]
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  22. California Split
    An Altman classic on a subject he knows well.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    That's Entertainment!
    Hollywood legends introduce a collection of moments from the finest MGM musicals, ranging from the first all-sound musical -- Broadway Melody of 1930 -- to the climactic ballet from An American in Paris. [02 Dec 2011, p.3]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Chinatown
    Los Angeles has always been the capital city of film noir..., but few movies present a darker, bleaker view of the city than Roman Polanski's 1974 Chinatown. [17 Oct 1997, p.o]
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. The Seduction of Mimi
    The quintessential Wertmuller couple--sad-eyed Giancarlo Giannini and maneater Mariangela Melato--rev up this lively, devilish Faustian comedy about a hapless industrial worker caught in the Mafia's universal machine. [17 Oct 1995, p.3C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. 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
  27. The Three Musketeers
    Few adventure movies have such a heightened atmosphere of beauty, excitement and fun. [18 Apr 1999, p.34C]
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  28. Thieves Like Us
    Wistful Depression-era Bonnie and Clyde romantic noir. [04 May 2007, p.C2]
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  29. The Exorcist
    Through technical virtuosity at every artistic level -- including the brilliant acting debut of playwright Jason Miller as the doubt-filed priest who assists Von Sydow in the exorcism -- The Exorcist becomes more than a shocking movie: a film with a strong, positive force.
  30. Sleeper
    Sleeper has plenty of bald spots, lacks the inspired silent comedy of Take the Money and Run, but, these days, comedy beggars can't be choosers.
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